is it the world first TWIST movie. right?
huh???
shareIn the sense you are thinking, probably, but there were plays and novels with twists, and there are things in early movies that don't play to us anymore, while this still does.
Here's an example of a plot twist that doesn't work with modern audiences anymore, from the modern story in Intolerance, later released by itself as The Mother and the Law:
When a woman secures new evidence that exculpates her husband, who is about to be hanged for a crime he did not commit, she needs to catch up to the governor, who is on a train. She gets a ride in a car. It is 1916, and everyone "knows" a car cannot catch up to a train. However, this is a brand new, and particularly fast car; moreover, instead of just driving alongside the train and hoping to get the attention of anyone on it, the driver knows where there are roads, and takes a shortcut, arriving at the train's next stop before it does, and catching up to it that way. That may not seem like much of a twist, but in 1916, when a lot of people had never even ridden in a car, it was thrilling. Also, the idea that a car could navigate roads a train could, and a horse might shy from-- not to mention, going faster than horses was a new idea for cars as well.
interesting little twist.... thanks for sharing.
I found the sets in this movie mesmerizing..
There is a big twist in Chaplin's Shoulder Arms, released 2 years earlier. It's as big, but not as good.
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