My first experience with silent movies

The link to the silent movie I watched is here: http://youtu.be/oj20onQnTww

I really liked the silent movie because it was cute and had moments of sadness and happiness. I think the setting for the monologue was very realistic and that the characters were relatable too. Although the boy who was the main character was a teenager, he did a good job of portraying a younger boy well. One thing that I disliked about the silent movie was that the facial expressions could've been much better. While they conveyed enough emotion for me to get the general message, atoints the facial expressions were very average and bland. All the actors could've shown much more emotion in their faces. Silent movies are a lot different than talking movies because talking is one of the primary ways humans interact with each other. In real life, most conversations we have with other people are more talking with the other person than being really emotional. Typically, we don't use extravagant facial expressions while talking to one another. While you have to be an actor in movies, you have to be a very emotional actor in silent movies. Since there is no language for the audience to understand, you have to convey your emotions through body movement and facial expressions. Silent movies don't rely just on the actors' body movements and facial expressions. They rely on other things to make a silent movie entertaining and understandable. Sometimes in silent movies there is background music to add a tone to the story. In this monologue, a youthful piano tune was played in the background to symbolize a story about a child. In the silent movie I watched, the boy's best friend was a teddy bear. The teddy bear is a prop that pieces together the whole monologue. Most of the story is revolved around finding the boy's teddy bear that is missing. Another prop in the story that stood out to me was the notebook that the boy was drawing in. He missed his best friend, the teddy bear, and is shown drawing a picture of him and the teddy bear holding hands right before the girl gives him his teddy bear. It was a sad but cute moment where it showed that the teddy bear was important to the boy. Setting is also very important for silent movies. The setting of the silent movie that I watched was in a stereotypical suburban neighborhood. The setting seemed like a very realistic place for the boy and the other characters in the story to be. Another thing that is important for silent movies to be understood is predictable characters. The boy and girl in the story are typical little kids that like stuffed animals and would be very upset if the lost their teddy bear. When the girl gives the boy his teddy bear in the end of the movie, the boy is very happy and also makes a new friend- the girl. The movie ends with the boy and girl running down a street, both holding each arm of the teddy bear. I learned from watching this movie the importance of facial expressions and that silent movies can work and be entertaining with the right elements.