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Last post by M.10rda - Today at 11:34:05 AMTHE FATAL MALLET (1914):
This short takes the cake as most puerile silent slapstick comedy I've seen, which is some kind of statement. I should also mention it co-stars Charlie Chaplin, who FTR I've never thought was all that funny. I do think he eventually directed some striking dramatic sequences in his later silent features, and I greatly admire his later features with talkin' (MONSIEUR VERDOUX is some kind of masterpiece), but his legendary shtick has rarely made me laugh - and here, possibly less than anywhere!
Chaplin, Mack Sennett (who directed), and Mack Swain play three bachelors who all try to woo Mabel Normand (...away from one another). If this film is an accurate representation, early 20th century courtship was a barbaric and dangerous practice, because this 20-minute film is just an endless loop of one of the three guys kicking another one in the pants (sometimes into a body of water) or clubbing one of the other guys over the head with rocks, bricks, or eventually the eponymous mallet. No one is killed (so much for truth in advertising) but victims of said concussions are knocked unconscious at frequent-enough intervals that chronic traumatic encephalopathy is almost certainly in the futures of all three gentlemen (and actually - good, all of 'em have it comin'!).
What's most distasteful about THE FATAL MALLET, though, is how the juvenile plot objectifies Normand and denies her any perspective or agency. She passively observes all the aggravated assault (or giggles at it) and then seems happy to walk off with/get courted by whichever guy just bludgeoned the previous guy....... this in spite not only of their barbarism towards one another but also in spite of the fact that both Macks have the physiques of Roscoe Arbuckle and Chaplin is (of course) about five foot nothin'. It would be one thing if Normand was allowed to play her character as a gleeful sadist who enjoyed inspiring the carnage around her, and/or if she got fed up at the end and dumped all three of the men, but - no - she's an entirely blank slate just there to smile and blush.
Technically speaking, some of the physical performances are impressive to watch (though I never laughed once). 2/5
And Mabel isn't so fine that you'd kill a man to get wiv her... what, were there no other women in Hollywood in 1914? Mabel was played by Bernadette Peters in the 70s, and okay, I admit - I would club a dude for Bernadette Peters.
This short takes the cake as most puerile silent slapstick comedy I've seen, which is some kind of statement. I should also mention it co-stars Charlie Chaplin, who FTR I've never thought was all that funny. I do think he eventually directed some striking dramatic sequences in his later silent features, and I greatly admire his later features with talkin' (MONSIEUR VERDOUX is some kind of masterpiece), but his legendary shtick has rarely made me laugh - and here, possibly less than anywhere!
Chaplin, Mack Sennett (who directed), and Mack Swain play three bachelors who all try to woo Mabel Normand (...away from one another). If this film is an accurate representation, early 20th century courtship was a barbaric and dangerous practice, because this 20-minute film is just an endless loop of one of the three guys kicking another one in the pants (sometimes into a body of water) or clubbing one of the other guys over the head with rocks, bricks, or eventually the eponymous mallet. No one is killed (so much for truth in advertising) but victims of said concussions are knocked unconscious at frequent-enough intervals that chronic traumatic encephalopathy is almost certainly in the futures of all three gentlemen (and actually - good, all of 'em have it comin'!).
What's most distasteful about THE FATAL MALLET, though, is how the juvenile plot objectifies Normand and denies her any perspective or agency. She passively observes all the aggravated assault (or giggles at it) and then seems happy to walk off with/get courted by whichever guy just bludgeoned the previous guy....... this in spite not only of their barbarism towards one another but also in spite of the fact that both Macks have the physiques of Roscoe Arbuckle and Chaplin is (of course) about five foot nothin'. It would be one thing if Normand was allowed to play her character as a gleeful sadist who enjoyed inspiring the carnage around her, and/or if she got fed up at the end and dumped all three of the men, but - no - she's an entirely blank slate just there to smile and blush.
Technically speaking, some of the physical performances are impressive to watch (though I never laughed once). 2/5
And Mabel isn't so fine that you'd kill a man to get wiv her... what, were there no other women in Hollywood in 1914? Mabel was played by Bernadette Peters in the 70s, and okay, I admit - I would club a dude for Bernadette Peters.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by Alex - Today at 11:29:05 AMWhat can I say, women like a man in uniform. You should see them around firefighters. They get it ever worse than we do.
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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by claws - Today at 11:16:25 AMQuote from: zombie no.one on Today at 09:48:33 AMI had a threesome a while back... it was great, despite a couple of no-shows.
I think your problem is location. The filthy twats desperate for sex reside where Alex lives (or works), apparently.
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Press Releases and Film News / RIP Abdullah Ibrahim
Last post by Trevor - Today at 10:55:43 AMThe South African jazz musician and anti apartheid activist Abdullah Ibrahim aka Dollar Brand has passed away at the age of 91.
RIP ❤️🌹
RIP ❤️🌹
