Thread: Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?
View Single Post
Old 09-17-2010, 11:19 AM   #6278
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.WT Sharpe ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
WT Sharpe's Avatar
 
Posts: 39,072
Karma: 157049943
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA
Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.
Quote:
Originally Posted by MacEachaidh View Post
Ah yes, I was going to ask if you'd seen that one when you mentioned Murnau's version. I love it, and Willem Dafoe is extraordinary (and almost completely unrecognisable) in it, no?
Indeed.

Quote:
Originally Posted by MacEachaidh View Post
They came within a whisker of wiping it out completely. The court actually ordered that all copies be destroyed. If I'm not wrong, wasn't it simply dumb luck that a copy survived? In fact - do we actually have the whole thing, even now? I know Metropolis has gone through a long process of being slowly pieced back together by archivists from around the world, and we still don't have a complete print of its original edit, from before the US distributors edited the master copy down so heavily, but am I wrong in thinking something similar had happened with Nosferatu?
If I'm not mistaken, one copy was overlooked. That's cutting it close! It would have been a tragedy to lose that film.
WT Sharpe is offline   Reply With Quote