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Easily Vladimir Gardin's 1919 silent film adaptation of Jack London's "The Iron Heel". Nothing but a movie poster remains (and this has vanished from the internet too). I tried everything to track this down years back (before the Ukraine War).
The problem is, the film wasn't a traditional silent film, he had the actors on the movie theater stage, and they would interact with the movie and audience, it was a mixed media entertainment we don't even have today. Obviously the actors are all dead (but can be seen in other films), but I was hoping for the parts of the movie that was filmed to be preserved so I could get a sense of what it was like.
I hate the idea of the soviet union, but the idea of them producing The Iron Heel, a book about a failed Marxist uprising in the US written hundreds of years later when the world finally had it's successful marxist revolution, looking back at it..... (that's what the book is about, two very seperate Marxist revolutions centuries apart, the later one resukting in a utopia) and then to be in Moscow 11 years after the book was written, a little after two years Jack London died, in a Marxist Empire stretching half of asia, at the city wide jubilation celebrating the dawn of this very utopia so soon, it must of been absolutely awe inspiring to of been a member of that theater crowd. Absolutely electrifying, something held in utter awe.
Easily the one movie premier I would go to in history if I had a time machine. I don't know Russian, but I knkw Jack London, and I would go.
The movie is lost. Very, very, very lost. Wasn't exactly made in a watchable format, so nobody bothered to preserve it.
The problem is, the film wasn't a traditional silent film, he had the actors on the movie theater stage, and they would interact with the movie and audience, it was a mixed media entertainment we don't even have today. Obviously the actors are all dead (but can be seen in other films), but I was hoping for the parts of the movie that was filmed to be preserved so I could get a sense of what it was like.
I hate the idea of the soviet union, but the idea of them producing The Iron Heel, a book about a failed Marxist uprising in the US written hundreds of years later when the world finally had it's successful marxist revolution, looking back at it..... (that's what the book is about, two very seperate Marxist revolutions centuries apart, the later one resukting in a utopia) and then to be in Moscow 11 years after the book was written, a little after two years Jack London died, in a Marxist Empire stretching half of asia, at the city wide jubilation celebrating the dawn of this very utopia so soon, it must of been absolutely awe inspiring to of been a member of that theater crowd. Absolutely electrifying, something held in utter awe.
Easily the one movie premier I would go to in history if I had a time machine. I don't know Russian, but I knkw Jack London, and I would go.
The movie is lost. Very, very, very lost. Wasn't exactly made in a watchable format, so nobody bothered to preserve it.
I just watched juno. it hits much differently onwards of 20 years later.
TanukiFrolic · 22-25, M
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valobasa4ever · F
The Book Thief.