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Jean Marais in Beauty and the Beast (1946, dir. Jean Cocteau) (via)
“My method is simple: not to aim at poetry. That must come of its own accord. The mere whispered mention of its name frightens it away. I shall try to build a table. It will be up to you then to eat at it, to examine it or to chop it up for firewood.”
-Cocteau, Beauty and the Beast: Diary of a Film (1947)
Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy in Liberty (1929, dir. Leo McCarey) (via)
Above: Lon Chaney & Mary Philbin in The Phantom of the Opera (1925, dir. Rupert Julian)
Below: A production sketch from the film
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975, dir. Jim Sharman) (via)
Gene Wilder & Peter Boyle in Young Frankenstein (1974, dir. Mel Brooks)(via)
Brooks: ”I was in the middle of shooting the last few weeks of Blazing Saddles somewhere in the Antelope Valley, and Gene Wilder and I were having a cup of coffee and he said, I have this idea that there could be another Frankenstein. I said not another – we’ve had the son of, the cousin of, the brother-in-law, we don’t need another Frankenstein. His idea was very simple: What if the grandson of Dr. Frankenstein wanted nothing to do with the family whatsoever. He was ashamed of those wackos. I said, “That’s funny.”
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Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925, dir. Rupert Julian)
“Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be ‘some one,’ like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Ah, yes, we must need pity the Opera ghost…”
-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera (1911)
I am naming my first born son after this man.
