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Enough Goncharov. I want to see more discussion of revolutionary 1928 film The Dancing Cavalier starring Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont (and the uncredited voice of Katherine Selden)

fictionadventurer

I want more discussion of S. Morgenstern's original unabridged version of The Princess Bride. It's so irritating that it's now literally impossible to find anything other than Goldman's abridgement. And this is presented as a good thing! Some of us like complicated social satire, William! Yet all that brilliance has been thrown out so we're left with only the parts that are comprehensible to a ten-year-old boy! Absolutely maddening!

muse-write

Wait wait wait Katherine Selden was in that movie?! How did I not recognize her voice, I tracked down so much grainy footage of her role as Wilma in A Night of Music when I was a kid just to hear her high notes in the bridge of Winter Song! *sigh* I guess I need to go watch The Dancing Cavalier again, it’s been ages since I’ve seen it. I just remember that green dress Lina Lamont wears in the second half, I want it so bad.

incomingalbatross

No yeah the crediting situation around The Dancing Cavalier is SO weird.

Apparently at the time it came out you could barely AVOID knowing she was in it? It was a massive scandal on opening night because apparently everyone was REALLY invested in Lina Lamont (who I'll admit I'm not really a fan of in other things, but then I don't watch a lot of silent film and that was her niche), and the revelation that she wasn't the one talking OR singing absolutely torpedoed her career. Wild that lipsync controversies are as old as film with sound.

BUT, on the other hand, Katherine Selden wasn't formally credited anywhere in the film itself. I have a vague impression there were contract complications with her or Lina Lamont or both? But the upshot was, even though it literally launched her career, she's not "officially" in it. And so, nowadays, it's really easy even for people who love Katherine's voice and old films to assume it's actually Lina Lamont singing!

edgar-allan-possum

Look, I'm not going to defend Lina Lamont's actions, because she really did try to screw Selden out of getting any recognition for her work. However, she was trying to survive in a rapidly changing film landscape that seemingly had no use for actresses with unconventional voices. If you're only familiar with her from The Dancing Cavalier and the few comedies she did in the 30s, it's worth going back and watching a few of her silent movies to see what she was like as a leading lady. Most of them are lost media now but The Royal Rascal is really good and actually has a very sweet love story. Plus Don Lockwood got to swordfight and we all like that lol

#amazing post is amazing #iykyk

frightfullytreeish

eddie moves to el paso and buck FOR UNRELATED REASONS becomes absolutely 100% convinced his loft is haunted and he facetimes with eddie every night so eddie can help him watch for the ghost (i.e., they prop their ipads up on their pillows and nod off while staring at each other's pixelated faces, sometimes there's a noise and buck whispers 'did you hear that?' and eddie whispers back 'it's literally your heating dumbass shut the fuck up and go to sleep')

frightfullytreeish

This becomes 200% funnier and more tragic now it's Buck in the Diaz house

#9-1-1 #911 abc #evan buckley #eddie diaz #these absolute buffoons definitely would

stevenrogered

can we also talk about how this was an absolutely insane thing to have them say

#9-1-1 #911 abc #evan buckley #eddie diaz #legitimately the most insane conversation for them to have #and the most insane wording #in case you're not down the rabbit hole with me:#buck is apologising for telling their team that eddie is moving #moving from la to texas specifically #and buck was the only one who knew

failgynoid

Real question are there people out there who dont know how to properly use a firearm I am asking this unironically its very intuitive to me but that may just be because I was raised in appalachia do you guys not know how to reload aim and shoot properly

fipindustries

im aware through cultural osmosis about the basic ruls of gun safety, trigger discipline, point at the ground, etc, the specific mechanisms of it i have an incredible vague idea of but i would probably make an ass of my self if i was handed a gun

sybaritick

(sorry for adding a poll to your post but I think this could use a poll)

Have you ever shot a gun?

yes, and it's normal to me/I'm comfortable with gun safety

yes, once or twice

no, but I've seen them/friends who do/held one/etc

no, I have never seen a gun up close in real life

choose not to answer

Voting ended onMar 11, 2025

#i'm australian #why the fuck would i know how to gun

depsidase

#*snort*

buddiequeerbait

the world is big bright and beautiful knowing that eddie will never be scared off by bucks crazy

#9-1-1 #accurate post is accurate #911 abc #eddie diaz #evan buckley

kithmet

buck in his gay as hell overexpensive pink fuzzy cardigan, perfectly looking the part of eddie’s partner as they try to sublet their beautiful house together. in which buck is not a guest. and he proves this very fact by telling the sublettors all about it. he knows this house better than anyone, just as well as eddie who lives in it full-time. the sound of the plane flying over it, the ins and outs of the drama with the neighbours, the park nearby, the creaky floors, the pros and cons of the kitchen. this is Their House. and buck tries to sell it to these people by talking so earnestly about all the things that endear it to him so much. and no one is budging because no one cares like that as much as he does. so he takes it upon himself to move into it himself. because no one will love that house through the imperfections as much as buck will. and the house is a metaphor for eddie. because of course it is

#9-1-1 #911 abc #eddie diaz #evan buckley #oh my heart

bizarrelittlemew

he is doing his best

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @spirker 💖 thank you for being such a bright spot in this fandom and for being your kind, hilarious, insightful, lovely, and appropriately bitchy self 😌💕 love you!!

#our flag means death #crying with laughter

moon-mason

madamslayyy

Got his ass together in three words

bogleech

Okay but frog genitalia are internal whereas male rats have among the largest proportionate ballsacks of any animal.

callmestannismaybe

#crying with laughter #hellsite (affectionate)

redstonedust

nothing more disappointing than a shower with low water pressure. i don’t want to feel like a wet sad beast left out in the rain i want to be power washed.

#accurate post is accurate

911gif

9-1-1 s03e01 - Kids Today

#9-1-1 #911 abc #evan buckley #christopher diaz #these two are fucking precious

aneddiediazbias

#9-1-1 #two more sleeps in australia but whatever

tvuniverse

Buck: *suggests something so extremely dumb* Eddie: 👉💯

#9-1-1 #911 abc #eddie diaz #my precious boy

cryptotheism

hi yes hello what the fuck is metrosexual lmfao

It's hard to explain to zoomers just how insanely homophobic the early 2000s were. If you were male, and like, washed your hair regularly, people would call you a faggot.

So, dudes who washed their hair and wore button ups developed the term "metrosexual" which meant "I care about my appearance but I am attracted to women and don't have sex with men."

cryptotheism

And not just "oh people called you gay to be mean" like they literally thought you were homosexual and hiding it. Women would literally be like "damn, I was super attracted to him, but I heard he wore shorts more than twice in a week, so I guess he must like men."

sspacephine

My university best friend regularly asked me if my brother was gay because he owned a tuxedo in the 2000s. No, girl, he was just in a choir (another apparently damning quality indicating queerness) and had to wear a tux for every performance they did so it made sense to buy one??

#the 2000s were fucking WILD