The Most Important Question Of The Day

[ericcoleman]

[Poll #1198554]

Comments

[erik]

Greater fame does not equal greater talent.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

Keaton, but only because Lloyd was not a choice.

[powersalad.livejournal.com]

I don't really see where Diane Keaton has anything to do with this.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

No, Michael Keaton, the fine Shakespearean actor.

[pheltzer.livejournal.com]

That's where I went wrong... I was thinking Alex Keaton :)

[budsharpe.livejournal.com]

I like some of the Chaplin stuff, but once I saw "The General" I became a Keaton fan.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Chaplin was the greater genius; Keaton was the greater human.

[ericcoleman]

I disagree on one part, and agree on the other.

Chaplin was a completely reprehensible human being. One of the true scum of the earth.

Watch The General alone, then watch The General with an audience. Then you can really appreciate what a great work of art it is. And realize that Keaton was a modern film maker, about 40 years ahead of his time. Chaplin was a manipulative ephebophilic creep. He used a truly creep mawkish sentimentality, combined with a true meanness, to sucker people into thinking he was a genius.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

How do you really feel about Mr. Chaplin? Please, don't hold back.

[ericcoleman]

The poll was going to be

Keaton: The true genius of the silent age
Chaplin: The vicious little Ephebophil

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

With poll questions like that, you could get yourself a job working for Scott Rasmussen

[ericcoleman]

But ... I didn't ...

I SURE wanted to though.

[the2wittybird.livejournal.com]

"ephebophilic" was not a word I was initmately familiar with in my upbringing, but it wasn't hard to draw inferences from context and word structure. Nevertheless, I don't accept that as good enough when I'm already sitting at the edge of the internet, font of all knowledge accessible to mere mortals.

so i looked it up.

webster said it wasn't a word.

i just found that kinda amusing.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

No, but wikipedia had it. So there :-Þ