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Title: Whistling Directors
Post by: redyred on August 19, 2004, 03:09:36 PM
Now, any Leone buff worth their salt knows that the whistling at the start of FFDM was overdubbed by Sergio himself. My question is: In which other highly regarded film does the director personally provide overdubbed whistling?
Title: Re:Whistling Directors
Post by: Belkin on August 20, 2004, 10:39:57 AM
Now, any Leone buff worth their salt knows that the whistling at the start of FFDM was overdubbed by Sergio himself. My question is: In which other highly regarded film does the director personally provide overdubbed whistling?
Can't sleep. Am pulling my hair out on this one.  :'( But, just to clarify, do you mean SERGIO himself and one of HIS movies? Or is it some other well known director and one of thier movie?
Title: Re:Whistling Directors
Post by: redyred on August 21, 2004, 03:46:43 AM
It's a different director, and one of that different director's films.

Want some clues?
Title: Re:Whistling Directors
Post by: Belkin on August 21, 2004, 08:18:54 AM
It's a different director, and one of that different director's films.

Want some clues?
PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! GOTTA GET SOME SLEEP ;)
Title: Re:Whistling Directors
Post by: redyred on August 21, 2004, 03:52:57 PM
Major German Expressionist film
Title: Re:Whistling Directors
Post by: Il Buono on August 22, 2004, 12:45:21 PM
M?  Fritz Lang?
Title: Re:Whistling Directors
Post by: Belkin on August 22, 2004, 12:47:01 PM
That would have been my guess!
Title: Re:Whistling Directors
Post by: redyred on August 22, 2004, 03:05:24 PM
M?  Fritz Lang?

Correct! Sorry Belkin, I'm sure you'd have got it too. So what's it to be Il Buono? A bottle of London Pride perhaps?
Title: Re:Whistling Directors
Post by: Il Buono on August 23, 2004, 02:55:49 AM
All bottles work for me...

By the way, about M, is it really expressionist?
Title: Re:Whistling Directors
Post by: redyred on August 24, 2004, 10:57:34 AM
I'd say it was the tale end of the expressionist movement, although some would argue that only the silent films were expressionist. I'd argue that although M has sound the style is still firmly in the expressionist tradition. Of course, the German Expressionist movement was really killed off in 1933, for fairly obvious reasons.
Title: Re:Whistling Directors
Post by: Belkin on August 24, 2004, 11:16:08 AM
I'd say it was the tale end of the expressionist movement, although some would argue that only the silent films were expressionist. I'd argue that although M has sound the style is still firmly in the expressionist tradition. Of course, the German Expressionist movement was really killed off in 1933, for fairly obvious reasons.
With you 100%, redyred. Although some would say, the German Expressionist movement had a dying swan song post-1933, with the film/documentary style of LENI RIEFENSTAHL. Scary stuff!
Title: Re:Whistling Directors
Post by: redyred on August 25, 2004, 10:50:38 AM
And of course most of those directors and actors who fled nazi Germany ended up in the US, and something called film noir was born...
Title: Re:Whistling Directors
Post by: LINCOLNS GRANDFATHER on August 25, 2004, 12:14:53 PM
 This the film based on Peter Kurten ?
Title: Re:Whistling Directors
Post by: Il Buono on August 26, 2004, 12:05:56 AM
I'd say it was the tale end of the expressionist movement, although some would argue that only the silent films were expressionist. I'd argue that although M has sound the style is still firmly in the expressionist tradition. Of course, the German Expressionist movement was really killed off in 1933, for fairly obvious reasons.

Thx for clearing that up, Redyred.