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[ktron]

it's official. whether you count by number of discs (3 vs. 2) or number of movies (5 vs. 2), i now own more dvds of silent movies than of talkies. mainly thanks to a box-set of two charlie chaplin and two buster keaton movies that suddenly showed up on wally world's $5.50 rack. i couldn't resist. and not that it's much of a collection either way, but it still struck me as pretty strange when i noticed the ratio. makes me want to run out and find sunrise (one of my favorite movies ever, silent or otherwise), metropolis, and nosferatu... just because.

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[anarchat.livejournal.com]

What you said about Thief of Baghdad seems likely (especially since Jafar occupies the same position in each, I think). After an additional reading of Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp fron Nights it seems like Disney's adaptation was an amalgamation of Thief of Baghdad and the tale from Nights with a little singing thrown in. Aladdin from the Disney film is definitely much more like the hero from Thief of Baghdad than the boy from Nights while the story from the Disney film and the tale from Nights basically matches. It's definitely interesting to see the influences of classic film in modern cinema.