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A 25% retention rate is pretty good compared to the 4000 years of culture that preceded it. Who was the best King Lear in 1842? What made their performance spec
by tedunangst 4y ago
A 25% retention rate is pretty good compared to the 4000 years of culture that preceded it. Who was the best King Lear in 1842? What made their performance special?
- jowdones 4y agoYeah and additionally, most silent movies were garbage. Even the good ones are total crap by modern standards. Who would have watched them again? A few weirdos and only a tiny random subset chosen by random criteria. Might as well watch the 25% that was preserved and is waay too high anyway. Some things must just go away.
- Aloha 4y agoSome did reach the same production values as modern films - but Silent Film was functionally a completely different art form than Talkies.
- local_crmdgeon 4y agoHot take: Those TikTok meme slideshows or compilations of images with music over them? Where the music isn't synced to anything? Silent movies.
- Aloha 4y agoSilent Movies did often have semi-synchronized music.
- superhuzza 4y ago>Who was the best King Lear in 1842? What made their performance special? There's actually a surprising amount of information about famous stage actors, even going back to the 17th century. There are quite a few written accounts describing specific details of the staging, casts etc. To answer your question, Samuel Phelps seems to have been the most popular King Lear of that time period. Prior to him, possibly Edmund Kean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Phelps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Phelps
- tedunangst 4y agoI knew someone would be able to answer the question. :) By the same token though, we also have written records of the lost silent films.