12019-01-30T01:01:17+00:00Patrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3b11The Last Laugh (1924)plain2019-01-30T01:01:17+00:00Critical Commons19242019-01-28T18:33:37ZVideoF.W. MurnauThe Last LaughPatrick Keatingfdfdb363527b48ac29800c3d2a6f44da6939bc3b
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12019-01-30T01:17:24+00:001.x11 The Last Laugh1The Last Laugh (1924)plain2019-01-30T01:17:24+00:00In the opening scene, the camera is in an elevator, descending toward a lobby packed with people walking to and fro. Murnau lets us see the vitality of the location by packing his compositions with contrast, playing the back-and-forth motion on the floor against the up-and-down motion of the elevator railing.