I absolutely adore the trained chairs - this whole thing is so charming in its slapstick movement, so uncanny in a beautiful way! The editing goes freaking hard for 1964, like damn
@@Garl_Vinland Yup! he played the Bettle in the movie "Herbie", one of the Scarabs in "The Mummy", he also plays one of the pre-historic giant beetles from the "Caved In: Prehistoric Terror" movie, and he is returning now in the upcoming DCEU movie "Blue Beetle" He's a cool dude I saw him on a grass field once!
The “story” element of duelling magicians jealously escalating their competitive spectacles might be a premonitory tale of art spoiled by human partiality or commercial pressures (the winner will be he who compromises himself the most, sacrificing his body and soul for the audience’s delectation), or it might be a snapshot of how the most ferociously fought battles are internecine struggles rather than those between competing ideologies, a drama about the impossibility of compromise, of selfless dialogue.
@@baronvongott7879 I think he was the one who did the orchestration no? Maybe it’s the names under “hudba” Edit: Found the song is called “Kousíček Za Prahou” though no clues on the artist yet! Edit 2: Artists are the Bohemian Duo!
I took it as a representation of two competing powers with the beetle caught in the middle. In the end the two competing power destroy themselves, despite feigned civility, and the beetle dies in the destruction as well. Perhaps the beetle represents the common man. But I have no idea, I had not heard of this man or his work until I saw the name on Cinemassacre's page and wanted to watch them before I watched the review completely.
@@NashEsq I interpreted it as the beetle being the creature controlling these weird magicians. Each magician had one bug crawling around their heads. A bug, perhaps representing some sort of flaw. These men are both guided by their flaws: their arrogance, their hatred. In the end, it's what destroys them.
That´s the official Storyline: Two magicians, Mr. Schwarzwald and Mr. Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.
The really old one? I started looking for it and it seems to be “Kousíček Za Prahou” although I can’t find the version that appears in this film Edit: it’s by the Bohemian Duo!
