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The Man Who Laughs

The Man Who Laughs

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Sep 27, 2026

Naya NightmareHOST
1:33
Yes.
Naya NightmareHOST
1:34
So I watched The Man Who Laughs, which I gave five stars.
Naya NightmareHOST
1:40
And this one is really cool because the main character, Gwynplaine, actually inspired the Joker from Batman, which I know I'm late to the party on that one, but I thought that was awesome.
Ren's DadHOST
1:54
Did you know that that is on the Letterboxd Top 250 Horror List, which I have to bring up every episode?
John SiuntresHOST
56:10
absolutely.
John SiuntresHOST
56:10
And, uh, Emil Janning, uh, the man, the man who laughs, uh,
Matt FractionGUEST
56:13
man who laughs.
Matt FractionGUEST
56:14
Sure.
MikeHOST
10:45
Cause I did some digging to find out why he sounds in German and it's because of Conrad Veidt.
MikeHOST
10:53
the guy who was in The Man Who Smiles.
MikeHOST
10:56
Oh,
JimmyHOST
10:56
okay.
Leroy DeeHOST
36:53
Okay.
Eli FunaroHOST
36:54
My number eight is The Man Who Laughs.
Leroy DeeHOST
36:57
Have I read it?
Eli FunaroHOST
36:58
What is it? Did Brewbreaker write it? I think Brewbreaker wrote it.
Penny DreadfulHOST
37:48
Smiles.
Penny DreadfulHOST
37:49
The Man Who Laughs, yeah.
John F. WireniusGUEST
37:51
The Man Who Laughs, who thought was terrific.
John F. WireniusGUEST
37:55
And quite right.
John F. WireniusGUEST
37:57
It's an amazingly good, for a film of its era, it's terrific.
TomHOST
39:53
And it was Conrad Veidt.
DanHOST
39:55
Yeah, and a few years later, he starred in The Man Who Laughs, where he plays a man disfigured with a permanent ghastly grin carved into his face.
DanHOST
40:03
And that image is widely credited as a direct visual inspiration for Batman's Joker decades later.
DanHOST
40:10
So, interesting.
Martin DarnleyHOST
0:44
Right
JoeHOST
0:44
... we've discussed this before, may have been inspired by a black-and-white movie called The Man Who Laughs, which I think is a 1920s or '30s movie.
Martin DarnleyHOST
0:56
Oh, I think I've heard of that.
Martin DarnleyHOST
0:57
Yeah.
JoeHOST
1:15
Okay.
JoeHOST
1:16
So this is the Wikipedia entry.
Martin DarnleyHOST
1:18
Oh yeah, The Man Who Laughs.
Martin DarnleyHOST
1:20
Yeah, 1928.
Indy RandhawaHOST
11:36
"Can we get Conrad Veidt? Who we know from Cabinet of Dr.
Indy RandhawaHOST
11:41
Caligari, and he was coming off a movie called The Man Who Laughed.
Samantha RandhawaHOST
11:45
Yes.
Indy RandhawaHOST
11:45
The Man Who Laughs.
Scott MillerNARRATOR
1:02
Ib spoke six languages, and his fascination with movies began when he was only eleven years old.
Scott MillerNARRATOR
1:10
He saw the 1928 silent film The Man Who Laughs, featuring Conrad Veidt as Gwynplaine, whose striking appearance later helped inspire the visual creation of the Joker.
Scott MillerNARRATOR
1:25
Melchior walked away from the movie knowing exactly what he wanted to do, direct films.
Scott MillerNARRATOR
1:33
In the late 1950s, Melchior met Sidney W.
JustinHOST
29:32
It looked more like a clown, but I remembered that Grosset and Dunlap, obviously, formerly issued very cheap editions of classics by Alexandra Dumas and Victor Hugo.
JustinHOST
29:45
The volume I had was The Man Who Laughs, which is kind of a famous reference photo for Joker.
JeremyHOST
29:51
Mm-hmm.
JustinHOST
29:52
His face had been permanently operated on so that he will always have this perpetual grin, and it looked absolutely weird.

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