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Thanks! Really glad you like it. And it's HE who is perfect, so I have great material to work with :)

I feel like I've already answered this several times, but once again, guys, THE UPSIDE DOWN KISS IS FROM BELLA DONNA.

That's from The Student of Prague (1926 version), the film that made me fall for him in the first place. Great, great film; highly recommended.

The laughing at the crucifix is from The Wandering Jew. There are two cuts, and this scene is only in what I think is the British cut (that the BFI has on their site).

@@snowgrouse thank you 🙂

Tom Hiddleston and his are also blue.

Glad you like it!

Ah, I think some of my other vids are better than this! But thank you!

Not really. The Nazis just didn't really fit into the theme I had going. I tend to focus more on his Romantic villains and Nazis aren't exactly that. Strasser is just an idiot, rather than an interesting character per se--he has very little character beyond just being a puffed-up, pompous fool. Now, if they'd let him play a guy who was, say, in a powerful position in Germany and who had a crisis of conscience when the Nazis offered him power, and was tempted by that power, and we could've seen his struggles, etc. then that would've fit the theme. But his Nazis never really got those character arcs and remained more or less cartoon characters. Granted, some of the characters in here were simplified (even archetypes) but they were Romantic archetypes, like doomed lovers and hellraisers and spiritual strugglers and such. So they fit better. TL;DR my vids, and most of my fanworks in general, unless comedic, are all about characterisation.

Lawerence of Arabia is FDR is Alexander the stage magician. This person never lived in Germany Conrad viedt was a stage name of one of the original warner brothers world war one had already happened. This person is not only the president who made sure the nazis didn't take over the earth , whose idea having something called a United Nations was but Eisenhower's secretary of state a name used at the geneva convention . There are pictures as Woodrow Wilson and was also president harding. But so of Jonas Salk and Stephen Colbert was the confederate rich actual person who was Woodrow Wilson . Alexander Fleming invented the first way to almost completely kill 99.9% of internal bacteria . Ian Fleming was the name found on a generation of fake IDs and would sell people something white that gave them an infection and the bond novels were written to people like him or a mi who thinks he has faradays technology insidious prick. The spile wasn't built overnight.

It's ok, Connie is here in the land of the dead. Being, of course, A BOSS.

Cheers! Glad you like it!

Thanks! And a happy belated Connieday :3

Glad you like! He is good at bringing the fabulous :)

He studied hypnotism and meditation and various psychological techniques for real, so he was an expert at putting people in a trance! And well, Lana makes soundtrack music, doesn't she? At least sometimes it fits even an old timey actor like Connie. Glad you like it :)

@@snowgrouse Liking is an understatement. The video is so well placed. And with Conrad you can be proud of being German, knowing that expressionism had it's roots here aswell. It's so sad that most of Anders als die Anderen (Different from the others') was destroyed, the first ever open LGBT film and that in 1919, like even knowing its from your home country is great. A lot of art was sadly destroyed. Also I didn't knew about it, thanks for your enlightenment!

@@c2e.7877 Yeah, he was an amazing guy. If you want more thorough info on him than can be found in most online sources, I wrote a biography of him here, that corrects some of the usual misconceptions. www.pillowfort.social/posts/1221878 Re: the whole Germanness thing--it has to be that spirit of German Romanticism that found its cinematic culmination in him. I really do think he was Romanticism made flesh.

@@snowgrouse I always forgot that Romantism was a big thing here aswell. I like art but I'm not good in romantism paintings, I like poems from the era though. Also thanks for the link!

Glad you appreciated it. I 100% admit that his magnetic face, as you say, helped a lot. He's very rewarding to work with, even with mere fanvids; I can't imagine what his directors must've felt about working with him. Thank you!

Thanks! I'd been put off vidding for years because I had somehow got the impression it was hugely complicated. But it turns out it was easy (at least on Vegas, and for this old Photoshop whiz). So I was surprised myself at how well these turned out. Glad you enjoyed the vid :)

Cheers! Connie/Sin OTP, really.

Really glad you like it! Although I was not the first one to make a fanvid with this song; back when it came out, everyone was vidding it to so many characters from so many shows. I think I've seen at least three NewWho ones, for a start. So I just shamelessly jumped onto an old meme bandwagon, several years late. 🤣 Renault totally WOULD bait Strasser with heavy breathing phone calls, though. He knows Strasser is desperately in love with him; I mean, it's obvious.

That's from The Last Performance. That's supposed to his loving, adoring face; he's looking at his bride-to-be. :D

​@@snowgrouse Oh sh*t I thought there was a sassy spark in his eyes, was wrong... I'll watch that, thanks. Great vid, btw 😉

@krysz caroline That's just Connie being Connie; he always looked h*o*r*n*y whatever he was doing. I STG, this man cruised flowers and parrots and caviar and dogs and pyjamas: aikainkauna.tumblr.com/post/159069551333/124-years-of-conrad-veidt-22-january-1893-3-april And that's just a small selection of his roving eyes. It's kind of endearing just how ridiculous his libido was. Bless him. <3

Glad you like it! And that it isn't hidden in your country. Seems to be geoblocked in most of the world.

Nathalia Luiza Glad you like!

Silvia Barreiro Pazos Thank you! Glad you like it!

He is absolutely hypnotic, and in a deeply alluring, sexy way at that, too. So wonderful. And absolutely, he was taken from us too soon--especially considering he only really came into his full powers in the talkies.

I agree he's really gorgeous 🥰

Torsten and the lesbians? That's from A Woman's Face (1941).

Paula Espíndola I don't speak Spanish, I'm afraid, but Google Translate tells me you're in love, and that's just natural with Herr Veidt :)

Glad you like it! Every fandom has one, and I couldn't resist. He is so ridiculous sometimes, going at things in such a crazy panther-leaping way that he deserves it. And I mean this lovingly. :D

JJ X IDK why my reply to this disappeared (I swear I replied months ago!), but here goes again. I totally get you about "WTF, Lana?!", so, don't worry! Her aesthetic is usually so Americana-y and peppered with modern "trashy" and "gangsta" and raunch chic that most of her songs wouldn't work 100%. But I got lucky with Million Dollar Man, in that it sounds like something you could conceivably have heard in a smoky 40s nightclub, without any of those modern/otherwise ill-fitting references that would've thrown me right out of a "Connie as the homme fatal" context. I am not the type to desperately shoehorn my movie/TV fandoms to fit my favourite songs (I've seen enough of those odd, kinda forced fanvids) simply because I'm too much of a stuck-up perfectionist for that:p Plenty of Lana songs where just a few lines fit Connies, and perfectly at that, but then she starts to go on about something modern and I could never get the whole song to work for a vid. So when I get things like that, I make a gifset of a chorus (like here: www.pillowfort.social/posts/744325 ) or something like that, just to exorcise the urge to make an otherwise shoehorned fanvid! And the period mismatch is a big problem--not a lot of interwar songs out there that are viddable to him, and not a lot of modern songs with talkie-Connie-characteresque lyrics that sound like they could've been recorded during his lifetime. Anyway, I'm relieved that you felt it did work in the end! It's really a relief, and actually pretty rewarding to hear that from someone who came in going "oh god, WHY" instead of someone who came in loving the song choice :D (Incidentally, "oh god, WHY" is my own mode whenever Herr Veidt just cannot turn the sex panther mode off and seduces even butter and glasses and zigawettez with his piercing gaze.) So, yes, I'm really glad you liked it :) Here's hoping I'll find another song to vid to him, because it really IS difficult to find a fit.

I've never seen anyone smoke as erotically as he did, even when the scene doesn't call for it at all. In that clip (from Der Mann Der Den Mord Beging), he's supposed to be a hero shadowing some bad guys into a brothel. They've just been presented with half a dozen prostitutes, all of them posing flirtatiously at the men and trying to smoke as sexily as possible and stuff. And then they cut back to Connie and with one drag off his cigarette, he out-tarts the entire brothel. I love him.

You mean fanvids? I would, if there were suitable songs. There are very, very few that fit him lyrics-wise and sound timeless enough not to contrast painfully with that classic image of his (comedy videos are a whole different thing, of course). This song was good because it could've conceivably been sung by a vamp in a smoky club back in the 40s. I like Lana a lot, but she often has so many too-modern elements (both in lyrics and musical style) in her songs for them to really work for Connie 100%. And I am a perfectionist--I really find that even one unsuitable line or musical element in any fanvid jars painfully and I can't get past it. Monica has several good Connie vids set to classical and film music, if you want to look at hers--I can't really vid to lyricless music myself (it's a complicated brain thing), so I need lyrics to go with the images. But trust me, if I knew the right sorts of songs I'd definitely be making more Connie fanvids!

I understand, it's hard to find music that portrays him perfectly. But if you do happen to come across more songs that fit Connie, please consider making more of these; you have beautiful editing. Also, I appreciate the recommendations, I'll definitely check hers. :)

Siirkis Oh, believe you me, it's not a matter of considering--the moment I find another perfect Connie song, I WILL vid the living daylights out of it:) I've done a couple of comedy ones besides this (see here: aikainkauna.tumblr.com/post/88766055608/conrad-veidt-does-things-like-a-boss-a-fanvid ) , but trust me, I'll definitely make "proper" vids should the right song present itself:)

snowgrouse Lovely! Thanks again. :)

@Barbara Mulvaney Like I said, I absolutely would make more if there were more songs that fit him. I desperately want to, actually, but it's really hard to find ones that capture that dark romanticism that he exudes and yet would fit stylistically (sure, you could find the right sort of imagery in metal and goth songs, but they'd be pretty corny to combine with Connie). Lana worked because she can do dark and cinematic and sensual and give it a period feel, but most modern music is too... modern. If any of you guys have any suggestions, though, I'm all ears!

Sue Harvey Far be it from me to start any arguments regarding one actor over another, but I find it fascinating how in pretty much all the magazines and newspapers of the time, all over the *world,* reviewers were gushing about what an amazing actor Connie was--and this was not the sort of praise other actors got, on such a steady and universal level. You can really tell how reviewers and audiences appreciated his acting as a *skill* in an era where Method acting and the like--acting as a craft--wasn't yet the most important thing (at least outside theatre) and when stars were there to look glamorous--acting skill on the whole was not seen the same way it is today, and charisma and attractiveness counted for far more than actual acting skills did. (Luckily, he had the skills *and* the charisma and the good looks.) But it really does stand out, and you can tell it's not just the reviewers falsely praising someone to kiss his arsch--he really was seen as *the* best actor of his time, or at least one of the top five, all over the world. Which makes his obscurity today even more depressing, really: people only know him from a couple of silents if at all, and even then he's just reduced to a horror actor, just another ghoulish figure (or That Guy Who Inspired The Joker) when he only truly came into his powers in the talkies. I've never seen charisma like his, never seen anyone who could hold the screen the way he does, never seen anyone *move* the way he did, and I've seen some astounding, jaw-dropping acting in my time. Other actors just look boring in comparison after you've watched (talkie) Veidt in action for a while.

Yes, unfortunately. Powell and Pressburger planned a film called Burmese Silver (or The Conjuror) that was supposed to be in Technicolor as well, but due to WWII, the film never materialised.

Any idea what the film would have been about?

Sorry for the late reply, email notifications from YT keep being swallowed up by my various inboxes. As far as I know, Burmese Silver (or The Conjuror) was about a powerful German (or Austrian or Swiss) man who went to Burma to try spy for the Nazis, or something similar--or maybe he was trying to start up his own dictatorship there. I think one synopsis even mentioned him posing as a Buddhist monk or something like that, going undercover, but that eventually, he really got into the spiritual teachings, renounced his Naziness and went off to become a real monk. But there are several synopses and they all say different things, and this may even have been two different films--it's impossible to tell. Powell was really gutted that he couldn't film it; he'd been location-scouting in Burma already and had great visuals in his head on how he was going to shoot some of the scenes. And as Veidt was himself a fan of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy and a very spiritual kind of guy, that really sounds like it could've been a dream part for him--it really looks to have been tailored for him on the basis of that aspect.

Cheers; glad it brought teh lulz.

Anastasia XII Really glad you like it! "Oh my Veidt" is an exclamation I find most apt, as he's most definitely a patron deity of mine by this point. There was always something so incredibly powerful about him it was not of this earth but from somewhere beyond. But then again, he said he was channeling higher forces and/or spirit-beings when he was acting (he believed all these characters he played were spirits that existed somewhere in the aether), and it shows. To have that kind of charisma is simply crazy, and as Old Hollywood was full of super-charismatic and gorgeous people who were made to look more than mere mortals anyway, he still stands head and shoulders above the rest, IMHO. So whenever people compliment this video or my stories about his characters, I always give *him* the credit, 100%. I'm just his humble slave girl, passing on materials of the man himself:) He was the one controlling the camera, the directors used to say--*he* commanded those close-ups with those amazing, unearthly eyes! Anyway, now I'm rambling, but thanks for dropping by and commenting. I'm really glad you liked it, and moreover, glad that this video can still be viewed in some countries at least! Thanks for dropping by:)

How am I not to like it?? Thanks to you I will ALWAYS think about Conrad with this song (This song from Lana wasn't my favorite but now it is hehe). Well, the first movie I saw from him was "The Man who laughs" and I was so shocked because how he could manage to make me smile and cry from one scene to another. I felt so curious about him that I decided to look up for other films, considering I read Conrad was the most important german actor on silent era. I got on "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", then "The Student of Prague", "The Spy in Black", "Contraband"... and so on xD It''s so sad to see he has been so unjustly forgotten, regarding he played every role in his career PERFECTLY. You could be madly in love with him (like in "The Student of Prague", "Lady Hamilton" or "Journey into the Night"), want to hug him so bad (in "The Man who Laughs"... I just can't deal with the cuteness of Gwynplaine, I just can't) or feel angry/disgusted ("The Indian Tomb" and "Lucrezia Borgia"). It's great to have seen that, like the water, he could adapt to any role. It's fine, I'm completely in love with this video and Veidt. He's just flawless *.* I just realized (along with David Cronenberg, my other cinematic "love") that I have serious issues with older men. Damn it. PS: Help me! My obsession over Veidt doesn't seem to have a cure.

Anastasia XII Late reply, but yep! There isn't a cure:) I am really glad you've actually watched so many of his movies, BTW; most people never bother. So it's great that you've explored the variety of his roles--I wouldn't call him a chameleonic actor per se, in a way some Method actors are, but the certain types he got to play he did better than anyone else. Not then or now would I believe a woman could be (specifically sexually) so hypnotised and obsessed with a beautiful man the way Anna and Mona are with Torsten and Baroudi, to the point that they would *kill for him,* but when it's *him* playing those guys, it's completely understandable. And I don't even mean that in a whimsical, joking way, either--that's how genuinely, disturbingly powerful he is. I may already have said it in another comment on this page (I'm on mobile, so I can't check), but I'm *really* glad he chose to become an actor instead of a dictator or cult leader. Very very few people have ever had the kind of charisma and self-assuredness and soul-fire to become that, and I'm glad he chose to use this power to entertain and to make the world a better place.

Glad you got a laugh out of it!