17 signs that you’re a silent film hipster

You were into films before they were cool.
You hate the fact that you secretly liked The Artist.
Ladies: other people think you have bobbed hair, but you know it’s a shingle. Chaps: you know you could totally rock a moustache.
You start a conversation about Harrison Ford, but you get confused when someone mentions Indiana Jones …
You left Instagram when it ditched its square-pictures-only rule.
People ask you what your favourite movie is and you say you’re sorry, but they’ve probably never heard of it.
You only have a TV so you can watch your Criterions.
You drink Mary Pickford cocktails out of a jam jar.
Your favourite thing about the last silent film you watched? The intertitle font.
When people tell you they haven’t seen a Colleen Moore picture you can’t even.
Your favourite beer is G W Pabst Blue Ribbon.
You love Douglas Fairbanks, but only ironically.
When people ask who was the greatest silent comedian, “Keaton or Chaplin?”, you raise a disdainful eyebrow.
You keep trying to make “talkies” a popular phrase among your friends.
Any film made after 1916 is just too mainstream for you.
You have a great vinyl collection, but it’s all Vitaphone.
You can’t get into “Netflix and chill” because the silents selection is just so limited.

9 thoughts on “17 signs that you’re a silent film hipster”

#4: LOL.

Cool list. Didn’t know silent film loving was cool. Don’t think it is here in Australia. I feel sooo alone 😕😕😕😪

PH says:

October 1, 2015 at 7:45 am

It is cool! If we both think so it definitely is.

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1. Photobooth Journal says:
  
  October 1, 2015 at 8:23 am
  
  Brilliant!!! I have never been cool before, so I will wear the badge with eternal pride!

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