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.
+SomeGuy Oh, gosh, thank you very much! I don't even know what to say to that, as I'm sure there are better ones out there! The song just works so perfectly for him and his characters more than it does for those of most other actors, I think. He was so good for all this doomed Romanticism where one couldn't help but be attracted to his villains no matter how bad they were and despite the fact that you should know better; that's how hypnotic he was. And you rarely get villain love songs like this one that really sums it up, even if it is, of course, more of a Bond theme type of song (I always think it's the thoughts of a Bond villain's girlfriend huddling up to him in his lair underneath a volcano when the game's been lost and everything's about to blow up). But it also works for Connie so perfectly I can't ever *not* think of him whenever I listen to it, so I had to make this vid. Thanks for your lovely comment!
Nameless Still the sweetest comments--thank you. I do keep wanting to make more, but even five years on, I still haven't found the right song. Here's hoping it will come along--but if not, I'll be very happy to go to my grave knowing that this particular vid is still the best one ever to *someone* out there :) Thanks again. *Bows deeply*
You know... I kinda giggled when I heard a Lana song start playing. I was seriously like oh GOD WHY... but this is actually so well put together and REALLY encapsulates Conrad wonderfully. I'm gonna watch this over again, thanks. Lol
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.
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.
Theresa Brown I mostly just write NC-17 fanfic of Connie's characters (over here: archiveofourown.org/collections/Veidt ); that's my primary form of fannishness. So that's the only 'more' I can give you for the time being, I'm afraid--I'm more of a writer and a Photoshopper than a vidder. And there are so few songs that'd fit old time movies and Connie in particular in the same way this one does. Still waiting for that day Torsten shows up in a sapphire blue evening dress so I can vid him to Lana's 'Money, Power, Glory'. I can totally see Torsten singing that in drag in a nightclub of ill repute.
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!
Yeah, I do hope this video can help fix that thing where people only know him as "the guy they based the Joker's face on" or just the silent film goth prettyboy. He was much more than that--I find him more commanding and powerful and charming in the talkies, which is why nearly all of the clips in this vid are from his talkies--and he was a wonderful person besides. Most of his films are now in the public domain and can be found on veidtveidtveidt on Tumblr:)
+Nahani Nakinilerak I'm presuming it's at the Bella Donna clip. I'm always surprised how many positive comments the clips from that one get when fanvids use them, considering it's a fairly rubbish and racist movie--but whatever he does in that movie to the lady under his spell is insanely erotic. You don't see that kind of stuff in movies anymore (I was just telling a friend yesterday how you can maybe see some romantically, erotically claiming stuff like that in kinky porn these days), but it still definitely works. Both Bella Donna and A Woman's Face cast him as a man who's such a hypnotic and overwhelming and intoxicating lover that the women would murder for him, and as a plot idea, that's completely ludicrous and unbelievable... until you see him in action and are just... holy ffffff. And I would never believe it with any other actor either, but when it's Connie, it *works.* And just in general, it's wonderful to watch him because of all that romantic stuff guys aren't allowed to do in films anymore. I recommend you find a blog called veidtveidtveidt on Tumblr if you want to find that and other films of his; he's definitely an experience:)
+snowgrouse Thanks for that Tumblr blog - I just downloaded Bella Donna from it, and you are right, it's not the finest example of political correctness. Still great fun to see Connie out-Rudolph Valentino with one hand tied behind his back (that being a rather incongruous accent to go with the sheikh persona). Anyway, I've watched your video so many times now that Million Dollar Man is firmly stuck in my head. Could be a lot worse :-)
+Nahani Nakinilerak Ah well, it's pointless to complain about such things in movies that old anyway; they were of their time (even though Connie and Mary Ellis themselves thought the sheikh angle was old-fashioned even at the time). A friend and I were just talking about how that movie's only good if you just think about it as a S/M porno (but I see I already mentioned that in the previous comment, whoops). The undertones of that are even more obvious in the book, where the heroine dreams of being his slave and delights in him being the only man that could dominate her. So no wonder they cast Connie, then... some of the overly sexual things he does are so outrageous there's a *reason* I used that lunge he does into her lap at the first "you're unbelievable" in this video, because it's ridiculous, yet stupidly hot at the same time. Damn him and his pantherly ways. But yeah, if you haven't seen it yet, A Woman's Face has him at his hypnotic and charming best; that's the one I probably used the most clips from because they fit the song so well. Again, thanks for coming in and telling me you enjoyed it and that you've watched it multiple times--I'm honoured!:) Even if all honours should go to the slinky bastard himself.
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:)
@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.
@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.
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.
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.
That dude can put me in a trance. Love his style, sex appeal and marvelous acting. He died before his time. RIP Conrad!
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 🥰
I keep rewatching this over and over again, i don't think that i have ever seen a better tribute to an actor than this one...
+SomeGuy Oh, gosh, thank you very much! I don't even know what to say to that, as I'm sure there are better ones out there! The song just works so perfectly for him and his characters more than it does for those of most other actors, I think. He was so good for all this doomed Romanticism where one couldn't help but be attracted to his villains no matter how bad they were and despite the fact that you should know better; that's how hypnotic he was. And you rarely get villain love songs like this one that really sums it up, even if it is, of course, more of a Bond theme type of song (I always think it's the thoughts of a Bond villain's girlfriend huddling up to him in his lair underneath a volcano when the game's been lost and everything's about to blow up). But it also works for Connie so perfectly I can't ever *not* think of him whenever I listen to it, so I had to make this vid.
Thanks for your lovely comment!
Still the best tribute ever
Nameless Still the sweetest comments--thank you. I do keep wanting to make more, but even five years on, I still haven't found the right song. Here's hoping it will come along--but if not, I'll be very happy to go to my grave knowing that this particular vid is still the best one ever to *someone* out there :) Thanks again. *Bows deeply*
You know... I kinda giggled when I heard a Lana song start playing. I was seriously like oh GOD WHY... but this is actually so well put together and REALLY encapsulates Conrad wonderfully. I'm gonna watch this over again, thanks. Lol
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.
Oh my Veidt. The song, the clips, the close ups...
THIS IS ABSOLUTE PERFECTION!!!!!!!
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.
Heart is broke because this man is not attainable.
I am now utterly mesmerized by Conrad Veidt, thanxx to your video. I will be sharing it. Wow!!!
Glad you liked it, and share away! He was so magnetic and charismatic I have never seen anything like it.
You're right! VERY well done ( music + editing + clips chose. ). Saaay, d'ya have anymore?
Theresa Brown I mostly just write NC-17 fanfic of Connie's characters (over here: archiveofourown.org/collections/Veidt ); that's my primary form of fannishness. So that's the only 'more' I can give you for the time being, I'm afraid--I'm more of a writer and a Photoshopper than a vidder. And there are so few songs that'd fit old time movies and Connie in particular in the same way this one does. Still waiting for that day Torsten shows up in a sapphire blue evening dress so I can vid him to Lana's 'Money, Power, Glory'. I can totally see Torsten singing that in drag in a nightclub of ill repute.
The best compilation I've ever seen. Love it.
+Judit Topál Really glad you like it! It's his own glamour and elegance that makes it:)
+snowgrouse His elegance, right + your skill.
I love it! I don't know what it is but I'm absolutely mesmerised by him. Also ofc I'm a big Lana fan.
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!
Love this, love it!! I can't help but to keep coming back to it.. Thank you for compiling this :)
Thank *you* for commenting and telling me you even come back to it! It's an honour :3
I LOVE THIS, ABSOLUTELY PERFECT!!
Thanks! Really glad you like it. And it's HE who is perfect, so I have great material to work with :)
I never heard of him until I looked up the origins of The Joker. I need to see his movies.
Great video and I love the song!
Yeah, I do hope this video can help fix that thing where people only know him as "the guy they based the Joker's face on" or just the silent film goth prettyboy. He was much more than that--I find him more commanding and powerful and charming in the talkies, which is why nearly all of the clips in this vid are from his talkies--and he was a wonderful person besides. Most of his films are now in the public domain and can be found on veidtveidtveidt on Tumblr:)
1:58 - my heart simply stopped.
+Nahani Nakinilerak I'm presuming it's at the Bella Donna clip. I'm always surprised how many positive comments the clips from that one get when fanvids use them, considering it's a fairly rubbish and racist movie--but whatever he does in that movie to the lady under his spell is insanely erotic. You don't see that kind of stuff in movies anymore (I was just telling a friend yesterday how you can maybe see some romantically, erotically claiming stuff like that in kinky porn these days), but it still definitely works. Both Bella Donna and A Woman's Face cast him as a man who's such a hypnotic and overwhelming and intoxicating lover that the women would murder for him, and as a plot idea, that's completely ludicrous and unbelievable... until you see him in action and are just... holy ffffff. And I would never believe it with any other actor either, but when it's Connie, it *works.*
And just in general, it's wonderful to watch him because of all that romantic stuff guys aren't allowed to do in films anymore. I recommend you find a blog called veidtveidtveidt on Tumblr if you want to find that and other films of his; he's definitely an experience:)
+snowgrouse Thanks for that Tumblr blog - I just downloaded Bella Donna from it, and you are right, it's not the finest example of political correctness. Still great fun to see Connie out-Rudolph Valentino with one hand tied behind his back (that being a rather incongruous accent to go with the sheikh persona).
Anyway, I've watched your video so many times now that Million Dollar Man is firmly stuck in my head. Could be a lot worse :-)
+Nahani Nakinilerak Ah well, it's pointless to complain about such things in movies that old anyway; they were of their time (even though Connie and Mary Ellis themselves thought the sheikh angle was old-fashioned even at the time). A friend and I were just talking about how that movie's only good if you just think about it as a S/M porno (but I see I already mentioned that in the previous comment, whoops). The undertones of that are even more obvious in the book, where the heroine dreams of being his slave and delights in him being the only man that could dominate her. So no wonder they cast Connie, then... some of the overly sexual things he does are so outrageous there's a *reason* I used that lunge he does into her lap at the first "you're unbelievable" in this video, because it's ridiculous, yet stupidly hot at the same time. Damn him and his pantherly ways.
But yeah, if you haven't seen it yet, A Woman's Face has him at his hypnotic and charming best; that's the one I probably used the most clips from because they fit the song so well. Again, thanks for coming in and telling me you enjoyed it and that you've watched it multiple times--I'm honoured!:) Even if all honours should go to the slinky bastard himself.
This is fabulous!
Glad you like! He is good at bringing the fabulous :)
Oml pLEASE MAKE MORE CONRAD EDITS
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!
Far more fascinating and a much better actor than Valentino in my view.
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.
what film is 0:44 from?
Torsten and the lesbians? That's from A Woman's Face (1941).
What movie is 0:20 from?
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.
Que hermoso que era Conrad Veidt. Me tiene enanorada❤
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 :)
Was thief of Baghdad his only colour film?
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.
Love it
Cheers!
What film is 3:36 from?
I feel like I've already answered this several times, but once again, guys, THE UPSIDE DOWN KISS IS FROM BELLA DONNA.