When
one starts a new endeavour there are things that need to be learned. I
learned one of those things this week.
I thought I was being clever, taking one of the all-time classic silent shorts and writing up a full description of the action, but as it turns out, it was a lot of work! So, fair warning, I'm probably never going to do that again. But I did do it, so here we go....
You have seen Sideshow, right? It is one of the seminal works of slapstick comedy of all time. It is one of the very first Muybridge Legacy short films (Shot in 1913 - yes, 100 years old!) yet it still holds up. It stars Shao and Zi Zhe, a pair of real-life Siamese twins. (Allegedly - there is some controversy alluding to fraud, but that is not my business here.) And actually manages to deconstruct the classic Hollywood fist-fight before there was aHollywood ,
or a set of fist-fight tropes to deconstruct. Seriously, this is genius
before it's time.
I thought I was being clever, taking one of the all-time classic silent shorts and writing up a full description of the action, but as it turns out, it was a lot of work! So, fair warning, I'm probably never going to do that again. But I did do it, so here we go....
You have seen Sideshow, right? It is one of the seminal works of slapstick comedy of all time. It is one of the very first Muybridge Legacy short films (Shot in 1913 - yes, 100 years old!) yet it still holds up. It stars Shao and Zi Zhe, a pair of real-life Siamese twins. (Allegedly - there is some controversy alluding to fraud, but that is not my business here.) And actually manages to deconstruct the classic Hollywood fist-fight before there was a
