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In Reply to: Re: Have you ever seen Lang's "Niebelungen" films? posted by Victor Khomenko on July 11, 2005 at 06:01:20:
But I'll gladly take his tediousness and pretensions for the beauty in his work.My wife, on the other hand, prefers a lighter touch. While Rachmaninoff is her favorite, everytime I put on Offenbach or Bizet or another French composer, she comes into the den and wants to know what I am playing. This doesn't happen when I play Wagner!
BTW, Victor, your comments on Lang's work and its effect on you were really something. I agree, Lang has a gift for portraying horror. But not just the dehumanizing sort. I can't think of a scarier moment in films than the one in "M", where Peter Lorre is standing next to the little girl with the balloon in front of the store window. Much more frightening than anything in today's "horror" films.
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People often mention Hitchcock when discussing the master of horror, but Lang was head and sholders above, of you are just talking about bone-chilling creeping down your spine horror, and you are right, there are actually several moments in the M that define the ultimate gripping fear, like the scene with the open door with no one behind.And I know I perhaps mention the SPR too often, but since to way too many it represents something that it simply ain't, I think the comparisson is valid and called for. SPR is desperately trying to be horrific, but is in fact nothing but unpleasant and just amateurishly silly in many spots.
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