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I still remember that during the entertainment time, the heroine played the piano, which suddenly made the noisy atmosphere classical.
In this film, the public space on the first floor of the Hôtel de la Plage was originally silent, but Mr. Hulot suddenly played a jazz record, which also changed the atmosphere of the space. His outdated diesel-blasting 1924 Salmon Amilcar3, American "peeping", folding boat-loaded shark paragraph (updated in '78), painted footprints, funeral "send" wreath paragraph. Playing tennis, riding with Martine but dodging, two ice creams, all have this effect.
This is Tati's secret to representing the middle class. Every year I would watch him and learn a move or two from him, and it was fun at the time. This year I also found that watching his old jokes doesn't feel boring, but always laughs. Its inspiration comes from Emile Reynaud's Autour d'une cabine ("Around a Beach House"), a fifteen-minute "Praxinoscope" feature from 1894 (Americans who play "peeping" also follow suit) Unlike Chaplin, Chaplin Lin always fell backwards, while Tati always leaned forward.
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