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Ernst walks into an aspect ratio store and says "Yes Please!"

A video essay about the great 1921 German anarchic comedy "The Wild Cat" (Die Bergkatze), directed by no other than master craftsman Ernst Lubitsch and starring Pola Negri in her best role. We'll analyze the film's inventive use of masks to manipulate its screen shape and – I dare say – aspect ratio into whatever Ernst feels is most appropriate for the moment, achieving humorous and aesthetic results. Join me on Patreon:   / moviewise   The aspect ratio is an inherent part of a movie. The image has gotta end some place, right? Until a new John Cage type says he made a documentary without a frame or a camera and it’s the real world and you roll your eyes and pseudo intellectuals hail it as a modern art masterpiece – but I digress. Have you ever thought about how much we take our movie shapes for granted? Theoretically you can give your film whatever aspect ratio you soever desire but we keep limiting ourselves to a handful of rectangles. Over 100 years ago, this little unpretentious divertimento showed how infinite are the possibilities of the movie screen. I'll gladly die on the hill that Lubitsch's silent films were even better than his talkies. And I imagine there aren't more people on this hill because they simply haven't watched his silent masterpieces ("Lady Windermere's Fan" from 1925 is likely his best). By the way, the films shown in the beginning, in order are: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), 12 Angry Men (1957), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Written on the Wind (1956), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Les Girls (1957), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Ben-Hur (1959), Pulp Fiction (1994), Lawrence of Arabia again, Caché (2005), Asteroid City (2023), Life of Pi (2012), Lucifer (2014) which has a circular ratio, Mommy (2014), War and Peace (1967) and finally Die Bergkatze (1921). And later I show other Lubitsch films when talking about masks: The Oyster Princess (1919) and The Doll (1919). #videoessay #filmmaking #silentfilm Merry Go - Silent Film Light by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/