Talk:Erich von Stroheim
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Is this original material, or copied from another source? It isn't really encyclopedic. RickK 02:30, 12 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- It looks alright to me now: history shows quite a bit of work on it. Ellsworth 14:20, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Just wondering how his film "Greed" can be "mostly lost"? Is it lost or isn't it? Perhaps the author meant that certain parts of the film are lost?
- Greed was originally a six-hour-plus film. It exists in current format of about two hours in length, but the full version is lost.
Right - so I'll change the wording a little bit, if that's all right.
The following is confusing: "a nine-hour film of which only a two-hour fragment has survived, however there still remains an approximately four hour version." Blima3000 17:49, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
- That means someone took the two-hour version and interpolated some scenes based on still photos. What happened to the original film is really horrible, basically the studio head didn't like it and ordered that the original negative be recycled for silver recovery. There's a biography from the 1970's(?) that goes into this at length.
- I had never heard that Stroheim's native language wasn't German. Any idea what it was? Phr 00:01, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
That's of course utter nonsense. In "Five Graves to Cairo" (1943) Stroheim plays field-marshal Rommel. He has no trouble speaking German but he fails utterly in his attempt at a Prussian accent. Instead he always falls back into the softer sounds of his native Viennese dialect. I should know, I'm from Vienna myself. Perhaps the alleged remark by Renoir refers to this same "problem". Ver sacrum 20:38, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
