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The funniest sentence I read today
Incubus is a 1965 horror film that was filmed in Esperanto and starred William Shatner.
Via Jason Kottke. The first link includes a pretty amazing trailer for the film.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on March 27, 2007 at 05:28 PM in Film | Permalink
Comments
All films starring William Shatner are horror films.
Posted by: dearieme at Mar 27, 2007 7:40:02 PM
You're just now learning of this?
Posted by: Jacqueline at Mar 28, 2007 12:21:12 AM
In the third video down, Shatner makes the claim that French people can't understand each other. I can't tell if he's joking or not.
Posted by: josh at Mar 28, 2007 9:06:37 AM
I saw this when it first hit DVD. It goes beyond awful.
Posted by: Nate at Mar 28, 2007 9:27:07 AM
I have seen this movie. It is... not very good. Even despite the fact that Shatner manages to avoid overacting, perhaps because he's too busy trying to figure out how to pronounce his lines. It's allegedly the only feature-length film in Esperanto. Note that it's pre-Star Trek I have seen the grave of Dr. Zamenhof, who invented Esperanto and is buried in Warsaw. There is a church in Warsaw with the heart of Chopin in a glass case, because although he was buried in Paris, he always wanted his heart to remain in Poland, although perhaps not quite so literally as it turned out. Warsaw, Esperanto, and Incubus are all deeply strange.
Posted by: Thelonious_Nick at Mar 28, 2007 11:44:13 AM
A little less han a year ago I walked into a bar which happened to be showing this movie and couldn't tear myself away from the remainder of it.
Posted by: washerdreyer at Mar 29, 2007 10:25:00 AM
Vi Klingon aĉulo, vi mortigis ke lingvo!
Posted by: M.D. Fatwa at Mar 29, 2007 8:42:36 PM
"ke" lingvo, Fatwa? But while Shatner's mangling of the language is legendary in Esperanto circles (he apparently thought that he didn't need to learn how to pronounce it, because his way would become the new standard), Esperanto is as alive today as it ever was, meaning that it's a fascinating subculture of a couple of tens of thousands of highly idealistic people. I think I'll pay them a visit when I move to Oslo.
Posted by: Harald Korneliussen at Mar 30, 2007 9:19:10 AM
No need to be highly idealistic to like Esperanto; you just have to enjoy beautiful things.
Posted by: Adam at May 14, 2007 12:58:44 AM
