gwynsplainer
He Who Comes From The Depths
Behind that laugh there was a soul, dreaming as we all dream.
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beloved gwynplaine (please don't tag as body horror or anything similar)
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I think this URL is possibly the funniest thing I’ve ever thought of idk if I’ve said that. I am always gwynsplaining.
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not to alienate all four of my followers by railing against the grinning man again but Déa being Ursus's bio daughter really makes no sense on sooo many levels in addition to being in direct conflict with the themes of the work.
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April Fool's Day? Happy birthday, Gwynplaine...
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the mainstream media’s perception of LHQR is almost always “well I haven’t watched or read it but this guy looks scary so it must be a very disturbing and scary book/movie” and every time I go outside of my little circle of LHQR Appreciators it’s like being slapped in the face by Ableism
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Nobody speak to me, I just remembered how badly The Grinning Man botched the themes of The Man Who Laughs and now I’m angry again
#it had so much potential#it added cool things like the frame narrative and the puppetry#but it had to…fundamentally misunderstand the message of the story huh.#gwynplaine's parliament rambles
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do i have any native french-speaking mutuals i have a question
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the thing about translating hugo is that. its hard.
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Propaganda
Conrad Veidt (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Man Who Laughs)—the ultimate goth boy! as well as classics like the cabinet of dr caligari, the man who laughs (which his character in was the visual inspiration for the joker) and casablanca, he starred in the german polemic melodrama different from the others in 1919 in one of the first sympathetic portrayals of gay characters in cinema, co-written by the gay researcher & activist magnus hirschfeld much of whose pioneering research on human sexual diversity was destroyed by the nazis
Oscar Micheaux (Swing!, Lying Lips)—no propaganda submitted
This is round 2 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.
[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]
[editor's note: I received such an enormous volume of propaganda for Veidt I could only include some of it here—and unfortunately Tumblr isn't letting me repost any gifs at all, which I didn't expect! Please don't be offended if something you sent in didn't make the cut.]
"Just look at him your honor. Ich würde"
Submitted: Tumblr thread on Veidt
Submitted: Tumblr post on Veidt
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The silent film The Man Who Laughs is public domain now? Can we get it streaming somewhere I hate using dailymotion
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Propaganda
John Gilbert (The Merry Widow, The Big Parade)—no propaganda submitted
Conrad Veidt (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Man Who Laughs)—Just look at him your honor. Ich würde
This is round 1 of the bracket. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.
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Send asks to daydream about* at work, I have a long day ahead of me
*ie lists to make in my head, complex questions to ponder, anything I can spend a long time mulling over while I do tedious tasks
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Thinking about how The Man Who Laughs is not the best translation of the title L’Homme qui rit but it is kind of the title I’ve inherited bc I don’t believe in retranslating titles (ultimately any degree of name recognition is more important imo, at least with a work that has been read in English by that name for so long). Smile and laugh just don’t have the linguistic relationship that sourire and rire have.
Etymologically it’s more like if we (in English) called a smile a “sublaugh” or an “underlaugh,” so that “laugh” could be understood as a direct step up, ie an exaggeration, of a smile. But we don’t! Thus I’m forced to admit that at least in some schools of thought, perhaps including my own, a better translation would be The Man Who Smiles, The Man Who Grins, or dare I say, The Grinning Man.
#mixed feelings on the grinning man bc I think ‘who grins’ portrays it more as an aspect of his identity rather than his sole identifier#the man who laughs#the grinning man#translation talk#victor hugo
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the next person i see who says nothing about the man who laughs other than how gwynplaine was inspiration for the joker is getting shot and killed
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modern tgm au where “freak show” is put on youtube and goes viral. grinpayne gets stan accounts and fancams and “anyway, stan grinpayne” becomes a normal phrase to see on twitter. he gets a dm from @duchessjosianaa on instagram and she tells him to meet her at the riverbank, a club downtown. he goes and is then taken in by her family and becomes a lord and stan twitter goes fucking insane
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