Silent films have so much class!

     I do not believe that silent films are only of historical interest.  Film is a visual medium, the introduction of sound to filmaking made it easier to convey information and to tell a story through film, but it did not change my opinion silent films.  In silent films the actors are given the chance to show their emotions, while an actor can do the same in a film with sound, it is often harder in a situation where the charatcters of the film can just say their emotions out loud.  It may be hard to acomplish, but a lot more information can be conveyed to an audience through visuals only, a classic example of this is the opening sequence to Star Wars episode IV, all the information the audience needs is given through visuals only, the oposite of this is when the information is given with nothing but dialogue, like in Star Wars episode I, it is very hard to keep the audience's atention when the dialogue is this boring, movies done this way usualy have short and slopy dialogue that is fluctuated by seizure inducing action sequences.  Silent films can still be succeful to this day, in 2005 a silent film was released, which told the classic lovecraftian tale ''The Call Of Cthulhu'', this film curently has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which proves that even to this day silent films can and will be succeful.

Priceless.