The first film ever to divorce the camera from its tripod, The Last
Laugh plunged movies into the third dimension, using spectacularly
shifting perspectives to tell a story as simple as the camera moves
are complex. Director F.W. Murnau wanted to make a movie that could be
described in a sentence: An aging hotel porter is devastated by his
demotion to lavatory attendant. In another bold leap, this landmark of
the silent era eliminated intertitles, resulting in an unprecedented
fluidity of vision. As striking today as ever, The Last Laugh was the
extraordinary passport that brought Murnau, screenwriter Carl Mayer,
cinematographer Karl Freund, and star Emil Jannings from Berlin to
Hollywood.
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Germany film school
1924
bw 88 min.
