I’ve watched (and loved) a lot of silent films over the years. And adding silent movie images to the Last Kiss mix isn’t as unlikely as it might first seem.
In fact, it was the old TV show Fractured Flickers—which added silly, dubbed dialogue to silent movies—that partially inspired my creation of Last Kiss. It was funny stuff—and no wonder. Fractured Flickers was created by Jay Ward, the genius behind the Rocky & Bullwinkle show.
I’ve got at least one more of these silent screen sillies coming up soon in Last Kiss. I hope people enjoy ’em. I’ve love to do more.
Transcript:
Theda Bara as Cleopatra: Someday my prince will come! But waiting for him is a royal pain…in my plump patrician posterior!
Image: Theda Bara from the 1917 film, Cleopatra.
Dialogue by John Lusig
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Theda Bara as Cleopatra: Someday my prince will come! But waiting for him is a royal pain...in my plump patrician posterior!
Image: Theda Bara from the 1917 film, Cleopatra.
Dialogue by John Lusig
Image: Theda Bara from the 1917 film, Cleopatra.
Dialogue by John Lusig
I LOVE Fractured Flickers! I remember watching them way back in the early 90’s when the predecessor to Comedy Central ‘HA!’ came on the air! They ran all three seasons of the series!
Very cool, Neal. After I posted about this, I’m finding out there are a lot of us Fractured Flickheads out there!
It was one of my fav’s as well. Wonderfully irreverent dialogue. Very funny stuff.
Theodosia Burr Goodman (Theda Bara) put the V in Vamp and the V in Voluptuous.
“And now for something completely different…” I just saw Rocky and Bullwinkle in a GEICO commercial.
Hans Conried as Snidely Whiplash… So many bad puns in that show.
I loved Fractured Flickers and The Bullwinkle Show. (Or rather The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show as it was known when I was a kid.) The Jay Ward shows were fun, funny and surprisingly adult (in the good sense of the word.)
I’ve seen the Geico commercial mentioned here. R&B was a very good series written by some very talented people. Last night around three I also saw Underdog on one of the kid’s channels(my cable system doesn’t really shine for programming after midnight, and I couldn’t sleep.) I’ve noticed an increasing amount of old cartoons returning to the screen. I find them a great deal funnier than the things they call cartoons these days.
I have to agree, Dan. With few exceptions, most of what I’ve seen (and I don’t have cable or watch much tv, so I’m probably missing alot of what’s out there) in the past several years has not been something I’d care to subject myself to again. While there were some really terrible cartoon shows in the 60’s and 70’s (The Groovy Ghoulies anyone?), I much prefer cartoons from that era, and yes, Rocky and Bullwinkle was one of my favorites!