If a silent film did not have any type of score during its original release...

If a silent film did not have any type of score during its original release, do you still watch it in silence or do you listen to the score that was composed decades afterwards?

silent films are trash and i'd rather just read a fucking book.

I usually listen to whatever score is included in the video, or when I see them theatrically, whatever they are playing, be is someone on the piano or Radiohead. At home sometimes I will listen to a playlist of music I like. Often better than the included scores.

Silent films never were watched in silence. There always was a dude with piano or a grammophon in theater.

silent but generally

Would there be a market for dubbing such films?

lights are on for the sake of the photo, pianist would have a little light to read sheet music by and watch film waiting for dramatic cues.

Radiohead and nosferatu...

Does it get any more wannabe hipster than that?

I first watched this one without sound, and enjoyed it a lot.
Went watching it again, this time listening to the score that band made and I was surprised to see how better the experience was for me. Now that's the version I watch even if some pseud would like you to be a "purist" or whatever spook they gobbled up.

I think of silent films as a quaint relic and nothing more. Additionally, I find that almost all people who watch them are pretentious asshats who only watch the films in question because they actually believe it makes them seem artsy/intellectual/hip and etc.
And funnily enough, the attention whoring retards always answer with "pleb" when told no one cares about their hobby and bloated self worth.

Once I got internet and free time but the constant machine noises around forced me to buffle my ears so I clicked a silent movie on YouTube to watch and it actually worked.

the score made later for this is good tho

Depends if the score is good or not, there's so many shit scores to some movies that you might as well watch them silently, which is kind of a bummer since despite what hipsters will tell you, watching a movie with absolutely no sound fucking sucks.

wtf did you guys not see Anna Karina crying in Vivre sa Vie? How could you guys say that watching a silent movie in silence sucks?

The wrong soundtrack can REALLY fuck up a movie

This is probably heresy to a lot of people, although I don't know how many of you faggots on this board actually watch Silent movies, but I like to watch them with modern scores.

For instance, the version of Passion of Joan of Arc that I have on my HDD is the one with a score by the band Joan of Arc. I also have Metropolis with a modern score and Haxan with Burroughs' narration. It helps me get into the film more than the dated and often hokey original scores.

What's the best score for Das Cabinet des Caligari?

Silent films were never screened in silence, at bare minimum there would be a pianist playing tunes at the front of the theatre, if not a full live orchaestral accompaniment.

To replicate the experience of watching silent films in the early 20th century, I usually hire a pianist for the occasion, they are made to sit in the corner of my lounge wearing a striped suit and straw boater, and play an old honky-tonk stand-up I keep for the purpose

>watch a movie without sound
>tinnitus kicks in
I'd rather have a score no matter how shit it is.

I watch Silent films because I care about the history of the art.

Plus, it's kind of fascinating to see old timey conventions, behaviors, modes of speaking, beliefs, etc. There's always an uncanny moment where I remember that everyone onscreen, even the littlest baby, is presently dead.

So, mostly to satisfy my boner for history and film. I guess that is a little pretentious, but whatever.

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nice

The music. I only watched one silent film so far though.

It was the colored version of "A trip to the Moon". The coloring was absolutely shit, the music accompanying it wasn't too bad though.

Although this is spouted almost constantly and even in many documentaries about film, it is incorrect. I assume OP used that picture because for example Passion was meant to be played without any sound.
Many films were intended to be completely silent. Sometimes the theater would let some dude play piano anyway.

Shatty?