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German ExpressionismFilm 13 of 19
The Last Laugh
Der letzte Mann
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Murnau, Ufa, 1924. Carl Mayer wrote it for Emil Jannings: a hotel doorman demoted to the washroom. The story runs on bodies and uniforms. Karl Freund took the camera off the tripod and put it in a lift, on a cart, strapped to his waist (the trade called it the unchained camera). There are almost no titles. The coda arrives with a card that says the author took pity, which is the film calling its own ending a joke.
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Almost no titles, one uniform, and a camera Freund carried down a staircase and through a revolving door. The drunken dream after the wedding, shot on a camera that will not stand still, is where the unchained camera pays for itself.
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