Conrad Veidt - short documentary

[@willknuckles6141]

Better "Looking" joker than ANYONE who played it! scared me just to see how perfectly scary he was in 1927!

[@dogfan4lyfe]

Agreed. I’ve been master bating to this “Joker” character a lot lately and it’s always left me satisfied and smiling.

[@AveTrueToCaesar8212]

It’s even better given as scary as he might look, his story is extremely sad.

[@voicegirl555]

Happy Happy Birthday Conrad Veidt! A wonderful and talented actor you were!

[@kimc3024]

It's not degenerate, it's interesting!

[@usapatriot4163]

The original Joker!

[@susannebass]

Ah, another masterpiece delivered by Connie. Amazing.

[@dcdad556]

Props on getting Ray Bradbury to sit for comments.

[@cocobandicoot1489]

I'm agree with TheaterRaven. I want to see more and more about Conrad's Gwynplaine, He's still my favorite Connie's character and Im just a crazy fan girl everytime Conrad or Gwynplaine is near... I love to read things about The Man Who laugh movie or about the other Conrad movies. My second favorite character is Cesare, and probably the third is Erik from the last performance.. as same I love to see documentarys!! I love Conrad Veidt

[@TheaterRaven]

+Coco Bandicoot Gwynplaine is a great character, and Conrad portrayed him beautifully. Yet with that said, a (faithful) remake is definitely in order. (I'm not even going to go into how much the recent 2012 French film version badly deviated from the book) And, since Kenneth Branagh is narrating this, imagine if he directed the remake. Good God, if there was anybody in Hollywood today who could bring the massive epicness of a Hugo story to the screen, it'd be him. I mean, just look at what he's done with Shakespeare. .

[@cocobandicoot1489]

Im not sure with it... I dont think 2012s version is better or something and I dont like it so much. Dea and Gwynplaine are probably my favorite couple ever.... and Veidt and Philbin version is the most stunning ever, even having a difference of more than 80 years. Because their persormance show everything so expressive, pure and sad at the same time... in both actors... I think Shakespeare is a bit different than Victor Hugo specially if you took the most iconic romances of both... Gwynplaine is a person that yes maybe is a handsome man (like Veidt) with a deformed face .... but the feelings was more real on the first version ... and I think was a bigger challenge ....

[@TheaterRaven]

I love Gwynplaine and Dea, too, which is why I'm so "protective" (for lack of a better word) about them and who adapts their story. The silent film is great. And what irritates me most about the 2012 film is it could've been great. The costumes are gorgeous and the sets are fantastic (even if some of them are obviously matte paintings); it's a very nice-looking film and so if it had stayed true to the story, it would have been amazing. That's the frustrating part. I understand they may have had to change a few things, since the book is huge and there's only so much story you can put into a two-hour movie, but the 2012 film made changes that had nothing to do with the medium transfer of from book to film. They just made the changes because they felt like it. Not to mention the acting was awful. The only character I liked in the film was Josiana, and that's saying a lot considering I absolutely despise her. But the Josiana in the 2012 film was exactly as delusional and psychotic as I expected her to be. Everyone else in the film clearly knew they were in a melodrama and played it as such; they didn't even try to make their characters believable. I could go on and on about how much I hate the film and all the issues I have with it, but the point is, I think the 2012 film is shit and the silent film tells the story much, MUCH better.

[@cocobandicoot1489]

Im completly agree with you, Needless to say is they had in the 2012's more resourses technological resources, as of scenery, costumes, etc. I think that in the old movie they make us feel their feelins so so real!. So romantic, so dramatic, with a lot of tears, but tears that says so much.... they never needed a voice to express all of it... and Gwynplaine never needed to move his mouth to express all the feelings... I think it could be more awersome if to make the 1928's movie thay had have the resourses of 2012.... I mean Conrad Veidt do an excellent work,... so gorgeous, and I have to say because this movie I fell in love with him... Gwynplaine was perfect! and I think Marc was not exactly the perfect choice to make the role... I think He looks more like a pop star even with his "smile" and Connie looks like Gwynplaine have to look.... even He is handsome....Dea by Shrista is cute but I think Mary Philbin was so great for the role; maybe because she was really a shy and innocent girl.... really I thought she was really a blind girl at first time when I dont knew nothing about the staff XD.... Paul Leni was awersome too because He make all romantic and dramatic... and make Dea and Gwynplaine a special couple.... fragil, tender, sad, dramatic and chaste... a dreamy love >w< About Joisina I think the same... grrr I want to kick her XD!

[@zoraidagarcia625]

How curious! Since I knew of Conrad Veidt in Víctor Hugo's "The Man Who Laughs" I thought that he could have been a great Drácula or Dr. Víctor Frankenstein. Other great character I thought he could have done was the Main One: The Lord Jesus Himself. Maybe in "The Wandering Jew" he came a little close, although not much. This year in February I met an artist that is the equivalent to Conrad Veidt, but in music. He was his contemporary, been born five years after him and finding death tragically due to an explosive in WWII. In case someone doesn't know him, his name is Al Bowlly and you should hear later musical successes in his voice the way he sang them previously. He was part of Ray Noble's Orchestra and also he sang with Lew Stone, Geraldo and other great orchestras of the time, where he also played the guitar. You will like his voice and personality. Listen to "Heartaches", "Summer's End", "Music, Maestro, Please", "The Very Thought Of You", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "Good night, Sweetheart" and really, listen to the rest of them. Find "The Golden Age of Al Bowlly" channel and also "Tema: Al Bowlly" and enjoy that lovely music and talented artist. Best wishes! November 8/2020.

[@TheaterRaven]

@ConnieVeidt Ah, I see. Connie was a great actor and a wonderful human being, and any new documentaries on "The Man Who Laughs" are a real treat to see, since it's a more obscure novel/film. I freak out like the crazy fan girl that I am whenever I find anyone else who's heard of it, haha. It's a wonderful film, and he was great in it--the scene where he lets Dea feel his face and she says, "God closed my eyes so I could see only the real Gwynplaine" gets me every single time.

[@kamdan2011]

I wish there were complete scores for the film excerpts here.

[@franklinbumgartener1323]

The Ray Bradbury part was the best part.

[@ConnieVeidt]

@TheaterRaven This fragment is the only one that tells us something about Connie. The documentary is about horror cinema, in general.

[@suzannesadiiqa]

Olga Baclanova was a real hottie in the role of the duchess........

[@TheaterRaven]

Wonderful! Is there more of this available? I particularly would love to see/hear them talk more about "The Man Who Laughs". I adore Conrad as Gwynplaine. It was the first role I saw him play and so, as phenomenal an actor as he is, he'll always be Gwynplaine first and foremost to me. :)

[@ConnieVeidt]

@TheaterRaven I have some other documentaries about Connie, but I can't put them on youtube.

[@kronossonork6994]

ConnieVeidt Why not?

[@TheaterRaven]

@ConnieVeidt Aww, that's too bad. Check out my channel, if you have the chance. I've made a lot of tribute videos to "The Man Who Laughs". :) Also, I've written a stage play adaptation that's slowly been starting to get some attention, which is very exciting for me.

[@1joshjosh1]

Walking with Dinosaurs voice

[@fruzsimih7214]

It's unfortunate that Veidt's heroic anti-Nazi stance and exile are not even mentioned. He went to Britain in the 1930s in order to protect his Jewish wife, later to Hollywood. In Britain he made the movie Jew Suess, a filmed version of German Jewish author Lion Feuchtwanger's novel of the same name. His best known role was of course Major Strasser, the Nazi officer in Casablanca. His real convictions were as different from that character as can be.

[@sscoconut1265]

Grandpa Joker

[@brildidge9523]

This is hardly a documentary of Conrad Veidt.

[@harryfitzpatrick7978]

what's the name of the documentary?

[@TheMetalMachineMusic]

Think it's a history of european cinema narrated by Kenneth Brannagh.

[@korbeats6115]

creeepy

[@proletvladimirova828]

Conrad looks a lot like the joker

[@moralityisnotsubjective5]

The look of the Joker was based on the appearance of his The Man who Laughs character.

[@bighand1530]

@@moralityisnotsubjective5 I saw a post on Instagram saying that.

[@darrenjohnson2912]

The real Arthur Fleck

[@allenayala4553]

Who here from tik tok