I’ve thrown several Chaplin videos away because of this – I tried watching them with the sound right down, but even then it didn’t work – the music is supposed to help with the mood, and not being able to hear it made a difference.
They were full of sound effects, bongs and bangs, bells and horns, you name it: one even had “yakkety-yak” noises for background talking.
Yet if I were to suggest that they voiced Chaplin instead of using captions, people would be horrified. “It’s a silent film!” they’d cry.
Well, let it be silent!!!
I want to see the films as they were first seen … silently. I don’t mind the piano accompaniment giving cues; that’s how it was done then. Or the occasional drum “bong”, for similar reasons.
But let it be just that!
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- I'm severely visually impaired [so be gentle with my typos!] and have an inoperable injury to my lower spine: apart from that, I'm as miserable as the next person! That's not my real star-sign on my profile, but my dad died on my birthday in 2001, so I now share his
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