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I don't fancy spoilers, and I loathe people who don't put the spolier alert and consider their total spoiling to be just side notes with no consequences.
I also hate descriptions that spoil have story, and poster that expose the cast a lot; I like to be surprised when I watch.
So if you have any spoilers, announce yourself so we stay away from one another.
I have left the movie world for quite some time, and this my gradual return to it, and hopefully this time I stay :DDD
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The Gold Rush (1925)
Clowns, Mr. Bean, & Charles Chaplin's the tramp funny or scary?
I used to pass by Charles Chaplin on ART Teens when I was a kid, but I had an aversion to "the tramp" because, well, he wasn't good looking and kinda scared me.
I also couldn't perceive silent movies as funny due to what resembled canned laughter.
This was meant to be my first silent film, and so I decided to now hit the Charlie as my starter to uphold what felt like a rite of passage, and to see if grownup me will have another eye.
The only torrent with good seeders I found was this, and it turned out to be a revival where there was a narrative which made it not so silent.
And now after my life story, I'll actually talk about the movie itself.
I have to admit this was not a disappointing movie.
I still stand that "the tramp" gives me the wiggins.
I also still stand that it's not funny, but rather serious and meaningful.
I chuckled one to two times but my eyes welled up about three.
Having looked up Charles at some point and seen that he's actually cute, gave me a new appreciation of him, to stifle his good looks in the persona of the tramp, it made me even admire him.
Some of the characters annoyed me but they were actually well portrayed not over acted much.
Maybe I was lucky with this movie?
Georgia Hale: did really well.
A great portrayal of being irritated by ones who like and drool over you.
A greater portrayal of still seeking attention and enjoying tantalizing men.
And then of course feeling bad, getting touched and changing as a person.
Charles Chaplin the narrator: quite fast and cynical, highly moving and anchoring even.
Charles Chaplin the writer: Quite talented in being earthbound and keeping to the too real and human.
Charles Chaplin the director: Good Job capturing human nature's wretchedness in the ups and downs of dire situations.
Original Compositions Charles Chaplin teamed up with the Musical Direction of Max Terr: make for a not boring movie.
Finally Charles Chaplin the actor: great at portraying disappointment, optimism, and instinctual survivalist, a heartwarming hopefulness, and exciting anticipation.
Mack Swain: annoying not funny bully and great at it.
Malcolm Waite: less annoying funny bully, and good at it.
An all in all lovely movie that played with my fear of heights😂.
And instilled the notion of where there's will, there's a way.
While not failing to shed light on the phenomenon of those who discover lands kick out the people that were already in them, while making it seem right.
Just because "Tom Moray" playing " Granted he was bad for not letting people in need for food and shelter in, but that's a prerogative. An issue for human rights activists😂
I need to watch other movies first before I decide on the possibility of recommending and/ or rewatching it.
The Secret Six (1931)
-Jean Harlow received negative reviews for this! -Oh, yeah?!
So I watched this movie without seeing the cover and just read the right side of the names in the beginning of the movie without looking at the left one where the characters are, so till almost the last minute I kept thinking so that's the hero!
Till the last second I was like 'No Way!', then went back to the characters then double checked with IMDb and had a hearty laugh about Wallace Beery being the lead 😂
So, it was actually a good movie, I would watch it again.
Felt sad knowing that my girl Jean Harlow received negative reviews for this role, when she was the right amount of sly with a sprinkle of needed coy for the role.
So Jean Harlow got a pass from me😍
Lewis Stone was cool :D
Seeing Ralph Bellamy was a fine treat when he has his hat on in a certain angle, at least.
I don't understand why John Mack Brown's name was before Clark Gable's, but he was not bad, also better looking with a hat at an angle.
Finally, Clark Gable made the movie for me, not a moment of bad acting on this one on his part.
Generally, the cast of this movie was quite good at what they did.
♥
A Free Soul (1931)
Gone with the Wind of 1931? Leslie Vs. Clark?
Again watched without seeing the poster.
Leslie Howard: the second he appeared I knew things weren't going to go my way.
The thing about Leslie is that I met him and Clark first in Gone with the Wind and thence my bias began to be team Clark.
The other thing about Leslie is that he can deliver a few good lines and get you in the mood then, at a crucial line his bad acting stolid pants come on and he just pulls you, no kicks you out of the mood and destroys the whole thing.
But in this movie, I have to give it to him that he was better than his later usual.
And his role was a pretty nice one too.
My man Clark Gable again was the best of the lot, or at least the male lot.
I loved and hated his role with equal measure.
Norma Shearer: was actually really great, one of the rare non-stoic faces out there for old films, and an active character not a dull one.
I loved her a lot, but also hated her miserably.
I related to her role so much that it pained me.
Her hate for marriage and commitment, not wanting to lose her freedom before doing what she wants, the daredevil attitude, her impetuous drive, standing by her liberal beliefs and feeling that she can't be wrong so long as she follows her own moral code, not giving a damn for anything and rejecting conformity, falling for the wrong people, or using them in her test for emotions, trial and error without realizing how selfish and cruel that is, or maybe even knowing it but just not caring so long as her experiment sees fruition, just like a mad scientist. But like a mad scientist as well, her experiment's consequences blow up in her face, and are far too grave and it's too late to remedy anything. A brilliant fool or a foolish genius, who eventually sees that she can't truly give up on the notion of reputation and that she needs society and needs to conform. It's a cruel world out there, and it's hardly ever forgiving. She gave up her reputation and learned the hard way what it actually means to people. But she taught as much as she learned. She taught to go on head held high no matter what, and to own up to one's own actions, and to never abandon what you stand for, to take your own time without heeding external pressures.
The movie was originally, like most works based on a novel that I sadly could not find.
But I would imagine it was not a bad adaptation of it.
I loved this movie so much that I hated it.
I wouldn't watch it a lot because it will pain me.
But I would watch it sporadically.
I'll give the movie 9 stars myself, though by now, its theme is rather quite repetitive & used, but that remains part of the reason.
It's too real.
The Painted Desert (1931)
The sadness of watching a movie where for the first time Clark Gable is not the lead😢
The way I saw it, it felt like:
Bill Boyd remembered how to act last 10-15 mins.
Clark Gable forgot how to act the last 1-2 mins but still was better than everyone.
Helen Twelvetrees only acted well for less than two lines.
Good story but terrible acting -Clark excluded-and audio.