Duck Soup

MOVIE #1,475 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 03.25.24 This is the first real film — not to be confused with the other, much more famous Duck Soup — featuring them as a duo (although not ‘officially’ billed as such) and they're actually playing characters named Laurel and Hardy, much like how the Farley/Roxburgh troupe adopts screen personas while still using their real names. One thing I must admit about this era of silent comedy is just how incredibly wacky and nonsensical the shorts are. Plots seem to follow any whim or fancy, like a dog in the woods trying to track a scent. One second the boys are riding an out-of-control bike down a hill in Hollywood and the next Stan is in drag, falling into a bathtub. Ostensibly this is about L&H trying to rent an apartment that isn’t there’s after posing as a wealthy couple because they are fleeing authorities who are trying to round up tramps in order to force them to go fight forest fires, which in and of itself is an absurd mouthful. But it's all in service of the goof, like Laurel getting punted into Hardy's arms…

The best advice I have for watching/enjoying these movies (and I'm still a newbie) is to try and relax and simply accept everything at face value. That might seem obvious, but I'm still learning to do this and I've found it takes a bit of brain-training to get in the right mindset.

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Duck Soup is a 1927 American silent comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy. It was released on April 15, 1927.