Is anyone else interested in seeing this film because it was featured in the book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die"?
"I wished Her back but the dead adored Her, Even wild winds sang in chora for Her"
No. I saw it years ago as part of a Rene Clair series at a campus film festival. I bought the DVD the second it came out as par of the Criterion collection.
shareSimply because Criterion released it and it's easily available on DVD; not really into what some dude say I should watch before I die, especially if crappy movies like Into the Wild are included.
shareI watched it because I like "Modern Times" with Charlie Chaplin and had heard the story of the lawsuit. I checked it out to see if there was any merit in its similarities. I don't see the fuss. They're two completely different plots.
If you're not taking any steps forward, you're not moving at all.
The description of the film in that book is fairly tone-deaf though. Apparently, the writer thinks that the film was celebrating industrial society and labor. The film clearly created parallels between prison and working at a conveyor belt while portraying the executives as greedy hacks.
shareIt's pretty good. Still half a Chaplinesque silent film, complete with a Chaplin-looking star. Chaplin apparently returned the compliment by making Modern Times, which echoes this so much that the original studio tried to sue him for plagiarism. Chaplin was so cleverly evasive that they were never able to serve him though.
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