Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 2/9

[Pihasanddunes1]

Loaded with superb expressionistic scenes to transcend the technical limitations of the times. Bravura film-making.

[lgee191]

lol dramatic horse 6:40 

[lgee191]

I hate the city woman...she's so evil

[WeezerGeek182]

his wife looks like heather graham

[Giostrikemaster]

Es de las peliculas mas rifadas para ver con una morra, un dia nubladon echados en el sillon con palomitas, una cobija, recargados y bien a gusto...apliquenla, lo recomiendo..A mi solo me basta con recordar o imaginar

[laisydaisy30]

Just a little side note on Margaret Livingston (The Woman from The City) She was portrayed in the Cat's Meow, as being on William Randolph Hearts's boat when Thomas Ince got shot, possibly as his mistress.

[gladrial89]

I feel like a sex scene really wouldn't have added to a movie either but the fact still remains that censorship at that time never would have allowed sex to have been shown while violence was ok. It really was a doublestandard. Hollywood was scared of sex. I mean look at the fact that the guy and his wife have two separate beds!

[yohannbiimu]

@BillyProductions Oh yes, we they should have shown them undressed and humping each other here...that would have improved this movie a LOT! Did it ever occur to you that the element of violence (especially as it is suggested by the "other woman") is far more a part of the plot of the film than her affair with the Man?

[Mazurka1001]

Perhaps unrelated: George Stevens famous film A Place Under the Sun (after Dreiser's novel) -has exactly the same murder plot. He must have known this early masterpiece...

[melodyl52]

I love this movie. It is filmed so beautifully. I watched a documentary about it once...I wish I could find it again. I have the full movie in one of my playlists.

[fjdmusicman]

this guy is the origin of the phrase "pussy whipped"

[s4mth16ngstr24nge]

usually the music they put to the silent movies is not so good, but this music is not bad. there are cases when the musical accompaniment that was played in the theaters way back then was better than the music they add to it on the dvd today.

[rivervillager]

actually, this is the soundtrack that played to audiences in 1927 with the then-new Fox Movietone sound-on-film system. Sunrise was released within weeks of The Jazz Singer which featured the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system.

[s4mth16ngstr24nge]

@rivervillager - i remember the music of "sunrise" to have been different, but i don't know what the musical piece was called or who composed it. anyway this particular music later gets to be real melodramatic and not fitting the story told on screen. i think darker music would've been more appropriate, and especially later in the vids to come, i would not have the music get too over-excited and bombastic. later there's comical things, too, but i still think it should've had different music.

[s4mth16ngstr24nge]

2:41 - thats some advanced title design for the 1920's. most Mysterious. i didnt remember that part.

[SchallundWahn]

Yupie!

I love handsome

George "The Chest" O` Brien!!!

[mishinners]

At 4:23, she shakes her pandora's box all in his face and then he stuffs his face into...her box. AWESOME. They don't even do that in TODAY'S movies!

[s4mth16ngstr24nge]

@mishinners - at 4:23 she doesnt exactly shake her rack or her twat in his face. sure, its provocative dancing for way back in the day, but not how you describe it.

[Bestmanme08]

About Murnau---------google the name "Frank worthen"!

[ryonownbey]

Why?

[WHITEtotheHEAD]

The beginning tracking shot seen here blows my mind! It follows the man, then pans away and moves through the leaves toward the Woman from the City, the camera stays on her until the man comes into frame again and they finally kiss. It's a minute and 27 seconds long! Brilliant.

[mikissi]

see more about this very scene in David Bordwell's book "Narration in the Fiction Film", 1985, pp. 120-125

[keyboardhero521]

@WHITEtotheHEAD The way the music builds from the low, intimidating blasts of trombones to a delirious rush of violins is also spectacular.

[BillyProductions]

still hilarious how sex cant be shown (even consensual, between two married people, an act of love) but choking and drowning and other acts of violence are shown in explicit detail.

another backwards functioning here in the US

[vietgrove]

dude this film was made in 1927?

[AbusiveUncle]

yes?

[SirRiehl]

@BillyProductions

Maybe it has something to do with these facts:

Showing two married people have sex does not do anything for the film whatsoever.

People really didn't care to see such a thing.

It's totally unnecessary.

"Violence" on the other hand, enhances the plot greatly,

[vivatonal]

@BillyProductions

I agree. Perhaps Sunrise should be altered to bring it in line with modern sensibilities: More graphic sex; digitally replace Janet Gaynor with Lindsay Lohan; plenty of rap on the soundtrack. On the other hand, we could try to appreciate the fact that the art of the 1920s will necessarily (and in this case happily) be a product of the age, and get over it.

[DonFarshido]

@BillyProductions

you're such an idiot and the people thumbing up your comment are pathetic. Let's all belittle the old ages, how hilarious they didn't "show sex" while we can see everything we want with a few mouse clicks. Great job. So deluded to not realize that this is a work of art and as such always transcends the boundaries of censorship. Especially this clip is so full of sex that I can only laugh at your comment.

[PipamirSolo]

The man should have dumped the lady when she starts planning on ways to kill his wife

[MissyHolland]

I think a baby implies sex as well, and

they have one. But marcopolis was right;

even people actually married (like Lucy &

desi) were chaste on tv!

[marcolopolis]

seperate beds was common back then

[Poeticman7]

Them having separate beds to me shows how gone the relationship is.

[nillzz]

yeah, i was thinking the same.

[sacrificaltotem]

yea well they could not really show 2 people in the same bed.( it would imply sex) even up until the 1950s .

[LemonVamp]

I dunno, 20s movies were less censored until later on. The separate beds could be placed there intentionally for symbolism

[sacrificaltotem]

you may be right though, i can see it when thinking of Pandora's box,

[vietgrove]

The Hayes code supposedly stated that seperate beds had to be shown, even for married couples. Not everyone abided by it 'till after '34 though - see Busby Berkeley's "Honeymoon Hotel" number from 1933, which ends with Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler in bed together.

[RockabillyLSD]

this is really great