Famous Intertitles that never were…

Series, 2012

Having fun with the intertitle style developed from early Charlie Chaplin films and created for Rico con Amor— but also reflecting on the differences between written word and spoken word for moving pictures, and how different these famous movie quotes look in this dated silent-era format. How would audiences of that era read them? What of these would have been memorable without the actor’s delivery? Are there famous silent-era intertitle quotes? I think of the Metropolis line “The Mediator  between the Head and the Hands must be the Heart!”— perhaps it was quoted outside the movie theater as people walked out. I’m not sure, really.