Monsieur Verdoux movie is one of my favorites of all time. I have watched it probably over 200 times in the past. This great Charlie Chaplin movie can now be seen in full, including two featurettes:  (1) Introduction of Chaplin and Monsieur Verdoux, discussing the historical and cinematic context of the film;  and  (2) Documentary on Charlie Chaplin and his film based on a true story “Monsieur Verdoux” which was inspired by Orson Welles who originally gave the idea to Chaplin to make the movie.

According to Wikipedia: The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine. The film ends as Verdoux is being led to the guillotine in the prison courtyard after dismissing his killing of a few as no worse than the highly-praised killing of large numbers in war. The script for this film, the idea for it given by Orson Welles, was inspired by the case of serial killer Henri Désiré Landru. Welles sought to direct the film with Chaplin as star, but Chaplin backed out at the last minute, on the grounds that he’d never been directed in a full length film before and wasn’t willing to start. Instead, Chaplin bought the script from Welles and rewrote parts of it, crediting Welles only with the idea. The lead character kills to make money, hence he is not (in his eyes) a murderer.

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This one is hand-picked by me, giving love, support and shout-out to my friend Jam Master A (Adam Munter) of Scottsdale, Arizona.

• Direct link to his blog/page of his Silver Medallion remix:
  http://jammastera.com/2009/10/silver-medallion-the-iggy-jam-master-a-chronic-electro-house-remix/

Silver Medallion “The Iggy” (Jam Master A chronic electro-house remix)…

by JAM MASTER A on OCTOBER 26, 2009
in FRESH NEW TRAX

Silver Medallion are a pretty awesome edgy hip-hop/electro crossover act based in Scottsdale, AZ that are kind of blowing up. They’ve opened for acts like LMFAO, the “Dyslexic Speedreaders” (Dirt Nasty, Mickey Avalon, Andre Legacy, Beardo), Lil Jon, Far East Movement, and a bunch of others I can’t remember. They also DJ some badass electro music and put out mixtapes, and are on the radio in about a dozen major markets. Not bad for an indie band!

Anyway, I dig what they are doing, and have spent some time remixing their trax. The first drop is “The Iggy,” I love the attitude of the original version, and thought the rap would work really well in a 4 to the floor electro-house banger.  Whoop, here it is:

Silver-Medallion-The-Iggy-Jam-Master-A-chronic-electro-house-remix.mp3

Links…

You can hear the original track “The Iggy” by Silver Medallion at

http://www.arizonabeats.com/forum/local_links.php?linkid=658&catid=4

Silver Medallion Blog: http://getyourswagup.com
Silver Medallion Myspace: http://myspace.com/silvermedallion

“Scottsdale,” the first song by SM that I heard, I was like – damn this track is hot. The hilarious thing was that within 30 mins of hearing it, Oren and Carnegie rolled through where I was at.

“Gravity” is the most recent video they dropped. It was filmed in my hood – downtown Phoenix, AZ. Except they left the homeless people, crackheads, streetwalkers and Sherriff Joe’s thugs out of the video.