The peak of silent comedy, the most suitable for silent comedy, comes from the stage pantomime performance form, antics and emotional expressions themselves constitute a visual language. The appearance of the characters is caricatured, and the body movements are exaggerated. The comedic effect relies more on acting, action, movement than plot. The most outstanding are Buster Keaton and Chaplin.
1. Buster Keaton
The representative of the transition from comic to comedy is Buster Keaton. No facial expressions, expressionless masks, grim smiles, body language, and external movements are abundant. He does not show off his petty gimmicks, and opposes the world around him with a calm attitude. I like to put myself in the material world in movies, and let the photographer shoot the plot where he chases, encounters danger, and finally escapes. The General train. The editing is fast-paced, the composition of the picture is peculiar, and the visual expression is extremely strong, and this movement becomes the core of the narrative.
Continuing Mike Senator's stick comedy style.
This style of comedy greatly influenced Jackie Chan's action comedy style. The house behind Keaton, the same size as the real one, suddenly fell down on the front, on Keaton's figure, people clearly realized that he was going to be crushed, but the movie design, just let him pass through the window of the house, He didn't flinch but stood there, unscathed. "Sherlock Holmes II".
Keaton's humour is run through careful mise-en-scene and framing.
2. Harold Lloyd
The representative works "College Freshmen" and "Safety First". Comedy characters with upside-down characters often take ridicule as compliment and trickery as instruction, and use the character's ambition and enthusiasm to create a comedy climax. The comical image of the round-rimmed glasses forms a comedic conflict with the vigorous and active production spirit.
3. Charles Chaplin
Character modeling and image building: Chaplin's iconic image: top hat, walking stick, mustache, skinny top, fat pants, oversized shoes, walking like a duck, gentleman tramp image, rich inner world, unique personality, social fringe People, heroes of the times. Witty, humorous, optimistic and strong.
The characters are full of bitterness, joy, melancholy, sadness in smiles, and smiles are more painful than tears. Break away from burlesque and combine comedy with serious subject matter. Combining the tragic fate of the homeless and the optimistic self-entertainment state of existence, pretending to have a high quality of life in a dilapidated house, living in poverty, dressing formally and not losing manners. Not only has personal dignity, but also not negative and optimistic. Witty, humorous, optimistic and stubborn, full of sense of justice.
Structural Concept:
Space concept:
Highlight performance skills, usually panorama. In addition, it emphasizes the spatial expressive power of a single shot, and emphasizes the role of mise-en-scene within the picture. It pays attention to the instant effect of narrative time, the quick and short instant effect of comedy jokes, and the conflict of comedy is expressed in time conflict.
theme:
Most of the more than 80 films that have been filmed appear in the image of homeless people, showing the fate and struggle of little people. "Gold Rush" City Lights, modern times, great dictators and other masterpieces, showing the conflict between personal and destiny, social reality, power politics, modern civilization, industrial culture, deep sympathy for the lower-class laborers, and bitterness to the evils of capitalism Satire, flog fascism and Hitler.
modern times. The alienation of machines and people, the conflict between industrial development and the individual.
Metaphor montage juggling montage of sheep and workers. Eating machine, repeated screwing action mental disorder. A tearful smile is both funny and pitiful, and I feel sad after reading it.
Ice skating in the department store.
Walking through the dancing crowd holding a tray.
The humble log cabin was treated as paradise.
Food is used as a weapon, and a small man is skillful against a big man.
The last silent film.
As a director, screenwriter, actor, composer, etc. Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award.
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