Thread:Gargoyle One/@comment-31377280-20180521011057/@comment-31377280-20180521171139

Ok, so Dr. Calligari is the guy who owns Cesar, the somanbulist. He uses an ancient Orient technique to mind-control Cesar to murder anyone who bothers him, or to credify his "prophecies." It turns out, though, that Calligari runs an insane asylum! That's how he found Cesar in the first place.

But now we, or the film crew, rather, have a problem: We have a German film, circa 1920, in which the main villain is a high-ranking official who manipulates, murders, and lies his way to power.

Yeah, that didn't fly well with the likes of Keiser Wilhelm (the leader of Germany in WWI) so the movie had to throw in the "It was all in the protagonist's head, and HE'S the one in the asylum!" twist in the last three minutes. At least that hadn't been done before at the time.