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La Roue
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La Roue ("The Wheel") is a 1923 French silent film written and directed by Abel Gance, who would go on to write and direct Napoléon. The "wheel" of the title is a recurring motif throughout the film, and is ultimately a metaphor for life itself.After widowed railroad engineer Sisif finds an orphaned baby girl named Norma, he adopts her to raise alongside his biological son Elie. Fifteen years later, She Is All Grown Up, and Sisif is acting like the Boyfriend-Blocking Dad. In truth, he is attracted to his own adopted daughter. Elie, who has become a violin maker, is also attracted to Norma because of course he is. Sisif makes the mistake of revealing the truth to unscrupulous businessman Jacques de Hersan, who is (you guessed it) attracted to Norma. After a bit of Blackmail, Hersan gets Norma's hand in marriage and takes her away to live with him in Paris. Meanwhile, Sisif's eyesight is damaged in an accident, and he is reassigned to run a funicular train in the Alps. Norma, who is unhappy in her marriage, visits the same area with her jealous husband. Suffice it to say that their reunion with Sisif and Elie is not a happy one.Upon its original release, La Roue came in at a whopping 32 reels, running for either (sources are conflicting on this) seven and a half or nine hours. While the 1923 theatrical cut distributed more widely ran for 140 minutes, the most frequently-seen and circulated version currently in existence is "only" four and a half hours, although a 2019 restoration added over two further hours of rediscovered footage to yield a 'full cut' (or the closest possible equivalent modern audiences may ever see) clocking in at an astounding six hours and 57 minutes. | |
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Dropped link to Blackmail: Not a Feature - ITEM | |
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Mutual Kill | |
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Mutual Kill: In their cliffside confrontation, Elie and Hersan pretty much kill each other. | |
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The Ingenue | |
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The Ingenue: Norma, like many, many other silent-movie heroines. | |
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Born in the Wrong Century | |
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Born in the Wrong Century: Disliking the hectic modern life of The Roaring '20s, Elie wishes he had lived during The Middle Ages. He has Imagine Spots in which he and Norma are engaging in Courtly Love with appropriate period costumes. | |
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Fortune Teller | |
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Fortune Teller: Sisif has his hand read by a palm reader at one point. | |
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Crazy Jealous Guy | |
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Crazy Jealous Guy: Hersan is very jealous of Sisif and Elie. | |
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Reassigned to Antarctica | |
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Reassigned to Antarctica: Due to his worsening eyesight, Sisif is reassigned to run the funicular at Mont Blanc. Later on, he goes entirely blind and has to give up that job as well. | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
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The Smurfette Principle: Across seven hours, Norma is pretty much the only female character who matters. | |
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Foreign-Looking Font | |
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Foreign-Looking Font: For Elie's medieval Imagine Spots, the intertitles are written in the Old English Blackletter font. | |
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If I Can't Have You… | |
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If I Can't Have You…: Sisif tries to crash the train in the hopes of killing himself and Norma (and everyone else on the train, but who cares about them, right?) rather than letting her marry Hersan. | |
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The Remake | |
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The Remake: The film received a sound remake in 1957. | |
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Swing Low, Sweet Harriet | |
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Swing Low, Sweet Harriet: Sisif becomes attracted to Norma when he sees her doing this. | |
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Bungled Suicide | |
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Bungled Suicide: Sisif tries to commit suicide by laying on the railroad tracks, but the train is stopped in time. See also: If I Can't Have You… | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: Sisif drinks to deal with his problems. And he has a lot of problems. | |
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Literal Cliffhanger | |
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Literal Cliffhanger: When Elie and Hersan fight on top of a cliff, Elie goes over the edge, leaving him clinging on for dear life. He eventually loses his grip. | |
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Heartwarming Orphan | |
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Heartwarming Orphan: Norma starts off as one. | |
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Orphan's Plot Trinket | |
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Orphan's Plot Trinket: Subverted. Norma came with a necklace that reveals her name, but Sisif apparently never showed it to her. In fact, she never even finds out that she was adopted. | |
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Boyfriend-Blocking Dad | |
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Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Sisif doesn't like other men looking at Norma nor does he like her dressing in a way that's likely to get their attention. He has his reasons. | |
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Stealing the Credit | |
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Stealing the Credit: Hersan takes credit for Sisif's inventions. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: "Me, Machefer, stoker for a drunk like that? I'd be risking my life!" Machefer then proceeds to chug a bottle of his own. | |
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Death by Childbirth | |
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Death by Childbirth: Sisif's wife died giving birth to their son Elie. | |
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Male Gaze | |
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Male Gaze: When Sisif is watching Norma swing, the shots from his POV are close-ups of her shapely legs. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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Calling the Old Man Out: Elie calls out Sisif for lying about where Norma came from. | |
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Not Blood Siblings | |
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Not Blood Siblings: Elie was low-key attracted to Norma before he found out they weren't biologically related. After he does find out, he realizes that he wanted to hook up with her all along. | |
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A Minor Kidroduction | |
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A Minor Kidroduction: The beginning of the film features Norma and Elie as toddlers. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
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Have a Gay Old Time: "You're turning your head again, Norma. Not feeling gay today?" | |
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Born in the Wrong Century / int_8c9a189c | |
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Literal Cliffhanger / int_8c9a189c | |
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Not Blood Siblings / int_8c9a189c | |
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Pervert Dad / int_8c9a189c | |
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Swing Low, Sweet Harriet / int_8c9a189c |
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