homeless man wakes up in a newly unveiled statue in the city, meets a blind woman, and buys flowers to meet him. At night, he rescued the rich man who wanted to commit suicide by the river, and the rich man took him home and went to the nightclub to eat, drink and play. The next morning, he met a blind girl selling flowers again. The homeless asked the rich man for money to buy flowers and sent the blind girl home by car. When he came back, the rich man sobered up and refused to recognize him. Wandering around the city during the day, and meeting a rich man who drinks too much, the rich man thinks of him again and takes him home for a dance. The next day he sobered up and kicked him out. In order to help the blind girl, he found a job. In order to help the blind girl pay the rent, he went to boxing. After a lot of tossing, I didn't make any money. As a result, I met a rich man who came back and drank too much on the way. Encountered a burglar while taking him home. As a result, he was hunted as a thief. He was caught in jail after giving money to a blind woman for treatment. When he came out in autumn, he met a blind girl with better eyes and recognized him.
Character:
The attitude of a homeless person , from the statue scene he appeared in, showed a calm and calm attitude. This relaxed attitude has been throughout the ups and downs of several encounters with rich people and sobering up. This attitude is closely related to his actual situation, economic situation The contradiction between status and social status creates a kind of comedy tension, and it is more open-minded beyond the transformation of sadness and joy;
helping blind women (from the appreciation and love of beauty: watching the show of the naked woman sculpture in the window -> come back to sit after buying flowers Appreciating the blind woman) is his motive, and the rich are both a means to his motive and an obstacle to him.
Paragraphs:
1. Watching the scene of the naked woman sculpture in the window, the performance of the performance is precise, and if you want to watch it, you are embarrassed. You pretend to look at the side, and there are occasional pits in the back, similar to Keaton playing billiards in Sherlock Holmes II;
2. In the dance scene of 26 minutes, the rhythm is precise, the camera is pulled out, the crowd is cheerful -> the camera is advanced, the two people who are watching in the cheerful crowd -> the woman who came to the two of them and twisted wildly was led away, and the two also Eager to try -> As soon as the woman who was going to jump with her male partner stood in front of him, Chaplin rushed up. The depth of field was also fully used here, and the multi-layered rich information of the same depth of the picture;
3. Driving blind in 32 minutes In the scene where the girl goes home, the cat wagging its tail in the foreground window not only adds to the romantic poetry
of the scene, but also serves as a foreshadowing of being smashed by flowerpots in the back; The comedic effect of homeless consternation brought about by the contrast between behavior and pseudo-identity;
5. The boxing scene is
advanced layer by layer. First, the black man practiced boxing -> he was beaten badly (also inserted the front and back comic effects of the mascot) -> the boxer who beat the black man was beaten down by Chaplin's opponent. ,
details, Chaplin looked very gay in front of his opponent, he hesitated when he took off his pants, went behind the curtain, and knocked down the audience in the foreground when his opponent came on stage. Zhuo was curious before he came on stage, and when the winning opponent stepped down, he was very curious. Quickly turn around and run, wait for the opponent to leave, and then come back to make faces, a small supporting role is in the corner of the screen with a rich scene setting, the
boxing process is caused by the action rhythm, the misalignment of the referee and the player's roles (when boxing former Zhuo came to the stage, there was also a misalignment of the assistant's role), etc. Comedy effect;
6. In the scene of giving money to a blind girl to treat her illness, Zhang (the role psychology) was reserved at the beginning, and later she was taken out by the pro and she didn't care;
7. The ending dealt with the grasp of the audience's psychology, first the blind girl Joke Zhuo -> Zhuo's smirk contrasted with her continuing to joke after Zhuo saw her -> She wanted to give Zhuo flowers and money, Zhuo was in a hurry to leave -> The two reached out to hand flowers, the blind girl pulled him over -> from The hand that he held moved to the expression that Zhuo didn't know what to say (the change in the music also showed that the blind girl recognized him) -> the positive and negative fight between the two of them -> Zhuo bit his hand and smiled, his eyes were wet, and Zhuo was always in a daze. Passive is the opposite of the previous initiative. The clothes and situation of the two also form a contrast, which prolongs the audience's expectation and hesitation about whether the blind girl can recognize Zhuo and the happy ending, and finally releases it. During the whole process, Zhuo's reaction aroused. The audience's greatest sympathy and expectation.
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