Joben Ryan A. Padre
2013-42972
Tackling science and technology in a very entertaining
manner, “A Trip to the Moon” showed how creative film-makers were decades ago.
This silent film truly must be special if it is still being watched by people
after a hundred years after its original screening. This movie received all
this hype despite being black and white and having no audio effects at all. This
witty story about scientists exploring the moon is truly something special.
If I was there during the first film screening, I honestly
would be uninterested at first because it is a silent film. This is because I
would typically be watching a movie with film technology way older than what I
am accustomed to seeing. However, when the credits start rolling, I’m sure I
would be one of the many people standing up and applauding the excellent show.
If I lived during the time when the film was first screened,
it would be a slightly different story. All of the technology used in making
the movie were ‘state-of-the-art’. Silent was the trending style for films. The
effects were astonishing. The movie would’ve been unbelievable back then. It
was. And it is even after so many years.
But why? What makes this film so appealing in so many ways?
Is it the funny picture of scientists wearing Dumbledore’s robe and hat? Is it
the comical yet creative idea of using a bullet-like spaceship? Is it the face
of the moon and how it was ‘bulls-eyed’ by the bullet? It is the umbrella that
turned bizarrely into a mushroom that didn’t stop growing? Is it the hilarious
way how aliens turned into powder when hit by an umbrella? The thing about this
film is, it was too funny that it somehow appeared serious, but in a good way.
The movie may seem simple today but it was their ‘Avatar’ or
‘The Avengers’ a hundred years ago. The plot may seem so simple to us today but
way back it was quality entertainment. And it is still today.
Maybe sometimes, silence may be the loudest and most
entertaining form of communication.
Walang komento:
Mag-post ng isang Komento