The Last Laugh 1924 4/4

The Last Laugh/ Der Letzte Mann was a 1924 B&W silent film about the changing fortunes of a hotel doorman. Directed by F. W. Murnau (Nosferatu, Faust) and written by Carl Mayer (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Sunrise), it is noteworthy for its use of a moving camera (one of the first to do so) and near lack of intertitles. Pushed to the brink of obscurity throughout the years, it is shared here for new movie lovers to discover and enjoy.

As far as I can tell, this film is in the public domain. I will take it down if asked.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• The Last Laugh
• Murnau
• Mayer
• silent film
• B&W
• public domain
• German

[TheTisssssssss]

I always get teary eyed in the scene where Emil Jammings shows much kindness to the restroom attendant.....1924 Germany....pure genius in film making....without the technology of sound....and by choice, no title cards....SIMPLY BRILLIANT

[SmashTheSilence]

@TheEdgarvarese12 lol nice try. you said 'generally', you did not specify this film in the comment that i replied to. even if you did that would still be ignorant because this film is not ~ unsophisticated.

[TheEdgarvarese12]

@SmashTheSilence 'LOL' unfortunately you didn't get my point. What I said was that this film doesn't show all the possibilities of silent film era. The greatest artist in silent films is Charlie Chaplin. And about comparing them to sound films, you better learn if you have some visual hallucinations because I never compared them to each other.

[SmashTheSilence]

@TheEdgarvarese12 LOL wow what an ignorant thing to say. Silent films are a completely different form of art. You can't really compare them with sound films; they had to "overact" because there *was* no dialogue, how else would they get anything across to the viewer? But they weren't restricted - what they lacked in spoken dialogue they more than made up for in score, facial expressions/emotions, visuals, etc. Some of the greatest and most beautiful films ever made have been silent films.

[DareYouNotToClick1]

@TheEdgarvarese12 Tell that to Norma Desmond. They didn't need dialogue, they had faces.

[bianconeri4eva]

@TheEdgarvarese12 and lets not forget about buster keaton.

[ThePretzelHead]

The ending was more embarrasing than losing his job. 

[TheEdgarvarese12]

@MisusePerfected no what i mean is that those silnent films generally aren't as sophisticated because they restricted in terms of dialogues and also beacause of that they overact, so performances are poor. Although i think one true genius of silent film is Charlie Chaplin he really achieved great aesthitical purity in the silent film era

[MisusePerfected]

@TheEdgarvarese12 So you think it isn't what it was planned to be? (Honest question.) Do you mean the happy ending that supposedly was the UFA's idea?

[TheEdgarvarese12]

@MisusePerfected i didn't say it has to be beautiful, it can be ugly or terifying, but it has to be whatever was planned it would be