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Freaks wedding
« on: October 18, 2007, 09:36:16 AM »

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Re: Freaks wedding
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2007, 09:50:59 AM »
I WILL not look   I WILL not look  I WILL not look  I WILL not look  I WILL not look  I WILL not look   I WILL not look
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Re: Freaks wedding
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2007, 10:05:16 AM »
I WILL not look   I WILL not look  I WILL not look  I WILL not look  I WILL not look  I WILL not look   I WILL not look

its ok, its from 1932

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Re: Freaks wedding
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2007, 10:07:29 AM »
I WILL not look   I WILL not look  I WILL not look  I WILL not look  I WILL not look  I WILL not look   I WILL not look

its ok, its from 1932

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Re: Freaks wedding
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2007, 10:07:48 AM »
I've seen the trailers for Fanny Hill and watched The Tudors just because it happened before the dawn of time does not make it work safe!!!

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Re: Freaks wedding
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2007, 10:09:26 AM »
I've seen the trailers for Fanny Hill and watched The Tudors just because it happened before the dawn of time does not make it work safe!!!

I am my own boss and this PC is mine, fully protected against little prying fingers and eyes.
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I Dare not look  I Dare not look  I Dare not look  I Dare not look  I Dare not look  I Dare not look  I Dare not look  I Dare not look
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Re: Freaks wedding
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2007, 10:27:24 AM »
I looked. It's from this film. Entertainment?

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Freaks tells the story of a trapeze artist named Cleopatra (played by Olga Baclanova) who marries a sideshow midget, Hans (played by Harry Earles), for his inheritance.

At their wedding reception, the other "freaks" resolve that they accept Cleopatra in spite of her being a "normal" outsider, and hold an initiation ceremony, wherein they pass a massive goblet of wine around the table while chanting, "We accept her! We accept her! One of us! One of us! Gooble gobble, gooble gobble! One of us! One of us!" The ceremony frightens the drunken Cleopatra, who reveals that she has been having an affair with Hercules, the strong man, and begins to mock the freaks and pours out the wine all over the circus performers; despite the revelation of being humiliated, Hans remains with Cleopatra.

Shortly thereafter, Hans is taken ill (presumably from having too much to drink at the wedding feast, but actually from poison that Cleopatra slipped him) and Cleopatra begins slipping poison into Hans' medicine to kill him so that she can inherit his money and run away with Hercules. One of the circus performers overhears Cleopatra talking to Hercules about the murder plot, and reveals it to the other freaks and Hans; in the film's climax, the freaks attack Cleopatra and Hercules with guns, knives, and various edged weapons, hideously mutilating them (and presumably killing Hercules; he is never seen again.) The film concludes with a revelation of Cleopatra's fate: Her tongue cut out and her legs hacked off, she has been reduced to performing in a side show as "the human duck." The original ending of the film had the freaks castrating Hercules, who would then be reduced to a soprano opera singer for the rest of his career. However, this segment was removed after negative reception in early screenings


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Re: Freaks wedding
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2007, 10:52:42 AM »
 cussing: cussing: cussing:
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Re: Freaks wedding
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2007, 10:57:00 AM »
I looked. It's from this film. Entertainment?

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Freaks tells the story of a trapeze artist named Cleopatra (played by Olga Baclanova) who marries a sideshow midget, Hans (played by Harry Earles), for his inheritance.

At their wedding reception, the other "freaks" resolve that they accept Cleopatra in spite of her being a "normal" outsider, and hold an initiation ceremony, wherein they pass a massive goblet of wine around the table while chanting, "We accept her! We accept her! One of us! One of us! Gooble gobble, gooble gobble! One of us! One of us!" The ceremony frightens the drunken Cleopatra, who reveals that she has been having an affair with Hercules, the strong man, and begins to mock the freaks and pours out the wine all over the circus performers; despite the revelation of being humiliated, Hans remains with Cleopatra.

Shortly thereafter, Hans is taken ill (presumably from having too much to drink at the wedding feast, but actually from poison that Cleopatra slipped him) and Cleopatra begins slipping poison into Hans' medicine to kill him so that she can inherit his money and run away with Hercules. One of the circus performers overhears Cleopatra talking to Hercules about the murder plot, and reveals it to the other freaks and Hans; in the film's climax, the freaks attack Cleopatra and Hercules with guns, knives, and various edged weapons, hideously mutilating them (and presumably killing Hercules; he is never seen again.) The film concludes with a revelation of Cleopatra's fate: Her tongue cut out and her legs hacked off, she has been reduced to performing in a side show as "the human duck." The original ending of the film had the freaks castrating Hercules, who would then be reduced to a soprano opera singer for the rest of his career. However, this segment was removed after negative reception in early screenings


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Re: Freaks wedding
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2007, 10:58:59 AM »
 doh:
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