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Discussion in 'Movies and Television' started by Novus, Sep 15, 2003.

  1. Novus

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    Short films, that is. What are your favourites?
    I'm a big fan of Don Hertzfeldt's Rejected.
     
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    Okay, I don't think anyone's reading this, but I'm not going to let logic shut me up.
    In film studies today we watched a collection of short silent movies from the late 1890's to the 1900's. Comic violence was portrayed so much better back then ... This one film, "The Chess Dispute" (no clue who made it) featured two guys beating each other up over a game of chess, but all the actual violence was done below the camera level, so you couldn't actually see what was going on. Every now and then there'd be a hat or a shoe or an article of clothing thrown up in the air so you knew what was going on, but that was it. At the end they showed the two characters, and they were both badly beaten, with black eyes and the like.
    Classical.
     
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