king of comedy

Loren 2022-03-21 09:03:25

Unparalleled talent and spirit.

The stage always belongs to the attitude of youth, and the career of the comedian is the shortest. When people experience the joys and sorrows and grow old, the soul is no longer clear and light and happy, and people's comedy viewing of the old age becomes compassion and sympathy instead of jokes and joy.

So "exit" becomes ubiquitous. For a comedian who is constantly absorbing a younger body, he is finally dead. But even so, he still presented the best performance, proving with absolute strength that even if he has gray hair, he can still make people lean back and forth.

Calfero helps and fulfills the heroine, but does not accept emotional feedback. It was based on his own recognition, the disappointment and relief that he no longer belonged to the stage. He reads out the longings and obstacles in the heroine's heart too easily, he knows too well the joy of a successful first performance, but he can't bear to entrust her young soul to a withered body, even though it is based on pure love. He knew very well that the collision between the stage and the spring and autumn in his life did not mean anything. Her long summer in the future should not match his eternal winter in the future.

Therefore, he avoids, deceives, or chooses a "suitable" path for the heroine with pessimistic stubbornness, but paints his own path as a narrow return to the true nature of life.

Before he died, he finished his final performance, so his departure was twofold. On the one hand, his body was weakened, and his illness was tormenting him toward death. On the other hand, he placed his hopes of beauty on the composer and heroine. The young two did not love each other, but it didn't matter, the important thing was that they belonged to the future, to the more magnificent human world beyond the reach of the master.

As he is carried from the lounge to the backstage, the narration of dying to death adopts the tone of a silent film, his resting body covered with the film curtain, while the heroine in the foreground is still dancing. History is such an eternal stage. In addition to paying tribute, the most important thing is continuation and endless creation, so that the most wise and beautiful art will always shine on the stage.

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Limelight quotes

  • Calvero: Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it.

  • Calvero: What a day! The sun's shining, the kettle's singing, *and* we've paid the rent. There's going to be an earthquake, I know it, I know it, I know it.