Today, I shared that I watched a comedy-style mime "Safety Down", and I didn't feel anything when I watched it, but I found some strange things in the comment area of Douban.
Safety Down poster
After browsing through many reviews, I found that the original film's lead actor Harold Lloyd was no worse than Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, and even once famous chaplin, around the 1920s, Harold Lloyd swept China with the name of "Roque", especially the developed concession at that time, but the ""Not Afraid of Death" incident in Shanghai in 1930 made him lose the love of the Chinese people and buried his impression in the hearts of Chinese. Since then, the big star of mime who is comparable to Chaplin has disappeared from the vision of the Chinese people.
At that time, because he starred in a movie called "Not Afraid of Death", there were a large number of Scenes of Chinese People smoking opium and ridiculing Chinese whips, which led to people from all walks of life in the Shanghai Concession spontaneously opposing the release of the film, and even the cinema that was released was greatly damaged.
In fact, putting aside the ideological problem, the United States in that era has been worried that the invasion of Chinese immigrants will affect the development of the United States, so the appearance of relevant content in cultural works is also a political strategy at that time, and the sharing bacteria feel that this matter should be blamed more on the director and the producer, and it is also inappropriate to simply resist an actor.
Today's sharing fungus for everyone to briefly introduce the actor, whether to watch or resist everyone to make their own decisions.
Judging from the 1923 release of "Safety Down" that shared the bacteria today, Harold Lloyd is a very special comedian. He did not deliberately dress himself up as funny as Chaplin or Keaton did, on the contrary, his face was very delicate, giving people a creamy feeling, and his face did not look very sluggish, but revealed a sense of cleverness.
Friends who are accustomed to Chaplin's silent film style may not be very receptive to Lloyd's light comedy films, and his films can make people smile but it is difficult to make people laugh, which is different from Chaplin, and he may also know that his position is handsome with a little comedic effect.
As for the story style, it is not exempt from vulgarity, the movie has a common plot of that era, the male protagonist works but can't make much money, desperately wants to go to the wrong door with his friends to make a fortune for the sake of his lover, but because the friend offended the police, he can only climb a high-rise building to attract customers to the mall, but in the end he left safely with his lover.
The happy ending film of the common people's livelihood and suffering + love elements in the last century, the film's oppressed scene in the company is not as profound as other works of the era, but the originality of the film's jokes is still relatively high, and friends who are accustomed to watching the Chaplin series can find new feelings.
The above is to share a little idea of Harold Lloyd through his classic work "Safety To The Bottom", as one of the representatives of the silent film era, his work is also worth seeing.