[Daily Dose #2: To-night Golden Curls (Opening Scene of The Lodger)]

1.  FAST pace, lighting, use of focus/not in focus these are similarities.  Differences-I found comedy to be missing in the lodger that was used in The Pleasure Garden (ie the sleeping woman in the audience).

2.  His use of lighting, focus/out of focus, concentrations on faces-especially in crowds, and drama!

3.  Psycho, and the Birds,

[Daily Dose #1: Spiralling into View: The Pleasure Garden (1925)]

1.  Yes, I see flashes of his "touch" thru lighting, his use of the camera being in focus and out of focus as well as comedy-especially thru the faces in the crowd (for example the sleeping woman).  Also there was the importance of the BLONDE!  

2.  Yes. I agree that there are themes of his future: comedy, the Blonde, and his use of lighting/focus.

3.  No, I don't think there were any real limitations because it was a silent film.  I could think about what possible music, sound of footsteps and conversation could have been, but he grasps that all in his camera work.