The films of continental Europe also reflected the mood of the day, and hence were far gloomier and more cynical. Even the dreadful poverty of the period, of a sort we can’t even imagine today with our elaborate social safety nets, was viewed as something to endure with grace and good humor, as with the antics of Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp. As such its cinema tended to be boisterous and crudely confident. America was on the rise in the early part of the 20th century, not yet a superpower but becoming one. It’s interesting to compare American and European films of the silent era. (Don’t worry, more traditional suckage will be posted soon.) In any case, when you are ready to move on, click on the above banner to be silently conveyed to the Roundtable supersoaker. Since I wasn’t conversant enough with silent film to know of a really bad one, I went in another direction. This time around the B-Masters go back to the earlier days of cinema, when films had even less words than a Michael Bay movie.
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