Glad you could join me for our walk today. I promise that I will not share any more weird stories regarding funerals or tales of the deceased. I would, however like to share a new hobby of mine called "Silent Movies".
What? you proclaim! Why would anyone want to watch those old things when we have the amazing movies today. I cannot argue with your defenses because of course, you are right. I have to say, though, for sheer pleasure, a good laugh and an appreciation of the year 2018 nothing beats a night at the silent theatre.
I discovered recently that the TCM channel has Sunday Silent Movie night occasionally, and I must admit it is the best cure for insomnia I have experienced. For example I discovered it quite by accident when searching for a movie with no murder or extreme stimulation in order to fall asleep during one of my many insomniac nights. The one I happened to watch last night came on around 11:30. Unfortunately I cannot remember the name but here is a brief description of what our parents and grandparents enjoyed during the 1920's.
At the beginning of the movie, you are presented with a reading, in the form of a scroll, that explains the story of the movie you are about to watch. It is like reading a short story. For your reading pleasure, there is some very annoying background music played by an organ. It was then that I decided to remove my hearing aides. Why bother? After all, it is a SILENT movie!
Next there was a scene to show where the first part of the movie would be filmed. There are very limited scenes in the silent films. I believe there were only a few in the one I watched last night. This was followed by another scrolled page that explained what the actors would be doing. This continued on so that each short filmed action scene always followed the story being presented first. In other words, you always knew what was going to happen. There were no surprises!
I particularly enjoyed the exaggerated facial expressions, and the actions in general as they were used without words to portray a reaction to the presented stimuli. Those actors had to be very adapt at portraying all sorts of emotions. Of course, having the story prior to each segment of the movie allowed one to interpret the body language.
The entire movie reduced my T.V. viewing size to a postcard, requiring that I position myself directly in front of the viewing screen. I tell you, getting that sofa in the great viewing position was quite a feat! Finally, I relaxed and enjoyed at least ten scrolls of the story and approximately five scenes.
And so it was...............on and on....................no surprises just laughter all the way. By the way, this was a drama and I laughed all the way to the end, actually did not make it to the end. I fell asleep after the first five scrolls.
Join me on a Sunday night on the TMC for an exciting anti-insomniac evening!
Enjoyed our walk, see you soon.............................................Brenda
