The famous comedy master Charlie Chaplin used a variety of film methods to maximize the liberation of comedy from the constraints of time and space on the stage or acrobatics field. The names and films of those comedy filmmakers who fell into the stereotyped In the eyes of the audience, he appeared like a dragonfly and disappeared for a moment, but Chaplin was left in history. His famous name is not only widely circulated in the film circle, but the general public is also attracted by his films. As the French film theorist André Bazin said in "What is a movie": "Although Charlo is trained in amusement park school, he does not try to please the audience, but to purify the comedy. His requirements for simplicity and effectiveness make Howl as concise as possible to understand."
In Chaplin’s films, words are always replaced by gestures and actions. For example, in "The Gold Rush," he Instead of using subtitles to express how happy he was because of the visit of the heroine and her girlfriends, he used a fork to put two pieces of bread on the table and came to the famous "Bread Dance". In March of this year, the famous Hong Kong director Johnnie To and his gold-plated screenwriter Wei Jiahui dedicated to the mainland audience in the "Northward" work "Single Men and Women". Gao Yuanyuan performed such a similar dance. I wonder if Johnnie To has the intention of paying tribute to the master. If so, you can say unceremoniously that this tribute was a failure. Not only did it fail to achieve the effect of Chaplin, but it also gave people the suspicion of the heroine deliberately "trying to sell cute".
Of course, this film does not mean that Chaplin’s comical aesthetics did not provide inspiration for some great works. You can see Chaplin's influence on other film masters.
When talking about Chaplin, we will inevitably use the phrase "tears in laughter". In his films, the elements of comedy and tragedy tend to be mixed in this way. What is beyond doubt is that, in addition to the creation of funny effects, The greatness of Chaplin's art is closely related to the profoundness of his realism.
In addition, Chaplin always expresses the character's rich heart and unique personality through carefully conceived exaggerated expressions and gestures. In his "Gold Rush", a meager meal is treated as a delicacy. Chaplin modified the true attributes of boots, shoe spikes and shoelaces, and found what they have in common with fish, chicken bones and macaroni. This coincides with the metaphorical expression method advocated by Einham. Therefore, in Einham’s "Film as Art", Chaplin became the most "innerized" performance he cited. Good example.
Therefore, Chaplin’s comedy is not a simple gag, but his own thoughts about reality expressed in the form of comedy through deep experience of life. Perhaps this is also related to Chaplin’s childhood experience. He used to do it in his childhood. Helped his mother "rescue the field" and boarded the stage, since then began his acting career. Everyone knows that what happened when a person was a child will have a major impact on his life. So, by extension, it is not difficult for us to draw a conclusion-all the work of film directors will always permeate their own life experience and even academic background. This also tells us that when we analyze a film, we should not just listen to the so-called " "Director's explanation", because the director may unconsciously lie for various reasons, watching the director's growth experience and other films is the most reliable thing.
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