Althouse: "Nick Newman had replied to a tweet a few weeks back asking me what movies I would recommend. I told him to try The Unknown with Lon Chaney and go from there."

October 30, 2024

"Nick Newman had replied to a tweet a few weeks back asking me what movies I would recommend. I told him to try The Unknown with Lon Chaney and go from there."

Tweeted Bob Dylan today.

I love that Bob Dylan tweets and how great he is at. The best.

Here's the starting point, so get started, and let me know what comes next:

It takes place in a circus, and "The circus is in town" is a line from "Desolation Row," giving special meaning to this response to Dylan's tweet, which takes us to a video that uses "Desolation Row" to prove that Dylan is the funniest person alive:

Mr. Dylan, I gave a talk last year in Tulsa about how you're the funniest person alive. If you would be so kind as to watch it, it would be the highlight of my life. I hope you're enjoying your time in Europe. God bless you.https://t.co/J3mN7nuJe2
— HarryHew (@harryhew) October 30, 2024

ADDED: My son John has a cool website called "101 Years of Movies/My favorite movies of each year from 1920 to 2020," and "The Unknown" is on his list, not as his favorite from its year, 1927, but #3:

(1) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
(2) Metropolis
(3) The Unknown
(4) The Kid Brother

John writes "Joan Crawford is a circus performer who can’t stand men’s hands, while Lon Chaney plays an armless knife thrower."

9 comments:

FullMoon said...: Paraphrasing liner notes from old Dylan album, two guys playing chess:
1.. I'm gonna whip your ass in this game
Doesn't matter, I always lose
WHAT? "Now, I hafta win"

Put the pressure on him, lol.; 10/30/24, 6:16 PM
The Real Andrew said...: The Unknown!

https://youtu.be/UN2LN9pcj9o; 10/30/24, 6:19 PM
Temujin said...: It bothers me that Dylan has almost a half a million followers in X and I only have...well...substantially less than that. I need to get funnier. Or just funny.; 10/30/24, 6:37 PM
James K said...: Interesting that the music that starts around 7:00 is "Hiney ma tov u'manayim," a tradition Israeli/Hebrew song based on Psalm 133: "How good and how pleasant it is that brothers dwell together."; 10/30/24, 6:40 PM
Original Mike said...: "I love that Bob Dylan tweets and how great he is at."

Of course he is (:rolleyes:); 10/30/24, 6:45 PM
Will Cate said...: SNL's on it; 10/30/24, 9:04 PM
Aggie said...: Probably the last great actor, whose passion for acting led directly to his premature death. A loss for the art.; 10/31/24, 9:43 AM
mikee said...: Joan Crawfor being stripped by gunfire and thrown knives - well, an idea I wasn't ready for, at all, at all. And I did not see that ending coming, either. They don't make 'em like that any more, do they?; 10/31/24, 10:51 AM
Larry said...: I am always astonished at how few people really know his work; 11/1/24, 3:09 AM