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The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Saw this at the local orchestra with a live organ, which was pretty cool. My wife and I like to go to the live music/film concert performances. I especially like the silent ones, since you often get the orchestra doing sound effects (like doors slamming) as well as the soundtrack. With just the organ, they didn't for this one. I kind of wish they'd used sound besides the organ for the actual opera parts.

The movie itself is kind of odd. Very over the top, in the way that a lot of silent films are. The Phantom toes the line between creepy-awkward and funny-awkward. I've seen a lot of pictures of Lon Chaney in the makeup before, but it's a lot more impressive in the actual film.

 Like a lot of old films, the print you get today is a kind of mishmash. Some bits has sound, some don't. Some bits are in color, some aren't. Title cards don't match. Not to the extent of something like Metropolis, but still interesting to see. 

It's public domain, so here you go:

 

 

Bacon's Essays 18 (Travel)

 Bacon's Essays 18 (Travel)

Bonus: 

This feels a lot more than 2 years old.

Summary: Go places, see cultural stuff, keep a diary.

Commentary:  I was just recommending Herodotus to someone at work today. I wonder how Bacon would feel about cameras.

Bacon's Essays 17 (Superstition)

 Bacon's Essays 17 (Superstition)

Bonus: 

Kinda lazy tonight.

Summary: Superstition is even worse than Atheism, since it leads to following fools.

Commentary:

 The causes of superstition are: pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies; excess of outward and pharisaical holiness; overgreat reverence of traditions, which cannot but load the church; the stratagems of prelates, for their own ambition and lucre; the favoring too much of good intentions, which openeth the gate to conceits and novelties; the taking an aim at divine matters, by human, which cannot but breed mixture of imaginations: and, lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. 

So, basically, no religion with too much ritual and such. 

Bacon's Essays 16 (Atheism)

Bacon's Essays 16 (Atheism)

Bonus: 

Way to make it difficult, Bill Nye

Summary: Atheism is dumb.

Commentary:   

For it is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions, or seeds unplaced, should have produced this order and beauty, without a divine marshal. The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it. 

This is basically it. The rest is just repeating the same two points in different ways. 

 

Bacon's Essays 15 (Of Sedition and Troubles)

Bacon's Essays 15 (Of Sedition and Troubles)

Bonus: 

I don't have a joke for this.

Summary: Latin. People won't rebel if you keep them happy (and avoid big changes and scandal).

Commentary: 

The real trouble is settling into a nice set of ~1 page essays, and then slapping down this 4 pager for me on a Friday night.

Also, so much Latin. Borderline unreadable without translating all of it before you even start (and I'm relying on machine translation). 

Bacon's Essays 14 (Nobility)

 Bacon's Essays 14 (Nobility)

Bonus: 

And the Turks.

Summary: Nobility is good.

Commentary: 

 A monarchy, where there is no nobility at all, is ever a pure and absolute tyranny; as that of the Turks.  

It does sometimes seem like it'd be nice if people were raised to rule graciously were in charge.