Status Updates From The Comedy of Charlie Chapl...

I'm in the Preface and I find THAT fascinating.

Have been inspired to learn more about mimes and Marcel Marceau. And Etienne Decroux. Books books books...

I think I need to see "One AM".

Described so: A simple plot. " Charlie arrives home and goes to bed. But the simplest actions ... become extremely complicated because Charlie is roaring drunk."

(Not the Tramp.)

These footnotes contain a significant amount of commentary and information, only about the sources of information.

"Which brings us around again to the purpose of Chaplin the director, which is to properly showcase the remarkable performance of Chaplin the actor"

‪'Jackie Chan models many of his sequences on Buster Keaton's.' 😳

Author describes how scenes play out to make a point & I'm STILL laughing out loud.

It's clear the humor lies in the character's choices as well as the physical theater.

The author describes how scenes play out to make a point ... and I'm STILL laughing out loud. The humor is in the choice of actions as well as the physical action. So good.

"All I need to make a film," he famously told Sennett, "is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl." (Cited 28)

Awesome.

‪Rose Wilder Lane wrote a serial set of interviews w/ Charlie Chaplin. San Francisco Bulletin. 1916.‬

I'm on page xii- it says that this book is about Chaplin's art, which is the art of motion. Mime.

Motion? Motion?