Leaf Recommendation: Charlie Chaplin's "Stage Spring and Autumn"
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Comedy master Charlie Chaplin has classic works in the era of silent films and sound films, and before the leaves also introduced the "Modern Times" known as the end of the silent film, and "Stage Spring and Autumn" is a work of Chaplin's "submission" to sound films, after all, Chaplin once insisted that the body can express deep emotions more than words.
Today's leaf to introduce you is this "Stage Spring and Autumn", in 1952 Charlie Chaplin self-written and self-directed "Stage Spring and Autumn" was released, this film is also his first cooperation with the "cold face laugher" Buster Keaton.
The film tells the story of 1914, in an apartment in London, England, a ballerina who has lost hope in life, Cerella, learns that she has rheumatism and cannot continue to dance, so she tries to turn on the gas and commit suicide. Just happened to be saved by a drunk man, you want to ask the drunk man's name and surname, please listen to the next breakdown!
The gas canister was put down and I continued, don't be impulsive!
This drunkard is Calferro, played by chaplin, the male protagonist of the film, Who is a comedian with a heart attack, and as he grows older, he is a bit unable to perform, which causes him to be unable to make fun of the audience anymore.
"It's getting harder and harder for me and the audience to communicate."
But all this changed after he met Cerella, and it took Carferro six months to get Cerella back on her feet and overcome her mental illness. So why did Calferro take so long to help Cerella? Someone said, probably in love with each other. You think so, if you are a shoe repairer who sees a problem shoe and wants to fix it, if you are a gardener who sees a little green in the kaleidoscope, you will also take it off, you are a procedural ape who always wants to find bugs when he sees the code. Calferro is a comedian who always wants to infect the people around him to make them laugh, for him, "Making the audience laugh is a very happy thing, and the audience does not laugh that is painful." "
In the process, Cerella returned to the stage and Calferro returned to the pinnacle of performance. Both men's lives are back on track, and the little flame of his two loves seems to be slowly burning. But the weather is unpredictable, and the rice is sour, sweet and bitter. The little flame of his two loves was extinguished by a composer's soak of urine.
Cerella and the composer both fell into the cliff of love, and Calferro stood on the edge of the cliff looking at the two, not knowing whether to be sad or free, or silently bless them.
Calferro returned backstage, ready to stage the "comedy" alone.
Comedy or romance, I believe the audience will have different understandings. Chaplin used such a film that can be said to be autobiographical to express his heart to the audience. In addition, the film's theme song "Limelight" was also composed by Chaplin himself, and twenty years later won the 45th Academy Awards in 1973 - Best Soundtrack (Drama Category).
The film was released in 1951 but was banned at the time, and was not released until twenty years later, so "Stage Spring" became Chaplin's last film in Hollywood.
The film is interesting is the cameo of Buster Keaton, who can be said to be one of the representatives of the silent film era, and the cooperation in such a film can also be regarded as a tribute to the silent film era.
Interested friends should not miss this Charlie Chaplin's "Spring and Autumn on the Stage".
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