#aelitaqueenofmars — Public Fediverse posts

I love how no one in this kisses like a normal human being 😂
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If “Aelita: Queen of Mars” seems a tad um… ~heavy handed~, well, as we’ve established on #SilentFlickerSunday the concept of subtlety would not be invented until many years later
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I know some people find the way the intertitles in this version to be distracting but I liked how clear they are and how they act as transitions because without them the film reads more like a set of vignettes
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@Kinetograph I actually sent off an email to a silent film historian about that and essentially got back a message that amounted to “Hard Maybe” 😂 so I’m choosing to believe it did
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And now back to Russian literature already in progress…
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For being a Soviet era Russia constructivist film “Aelita, Queen of Mars” also has a good deal of German Expressionism in it. Like take these costume sketches for the film by Aleksandra Ekster for example.
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Now our feature presentation: Yakov Protazanov’s “Aelita: Queen of Mars”. This is considered to be the first feature length science fiction film from Soviet era Russia and is based on Aleksey Tolstoy’s novel “Aelita, or The Decline of Mars”
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