" I wanted to show you an excerpt from A Countess from Hong Kong which is very funny, because it's a way of showing how Chaplin was still struggling even at the end of his life. He was still fighting against inflation. He took the greatest stars of the time, Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren, he put them in a room where there were no doors, and created a game of doors. He remained faithful to his beginnings, making a film with very little, with mankind, with people, a couple, and a sort of room. It takes place in a room on a boat, only that, and from there we're going to work with it. That's more difficult work."
"A Countess from Hong Kong might appear very superficial, very banal. It's a gag we've already seen a thousand times, but there's something very vital, very essential there. So, I come back to this story of resisting death by all means possible. Even if there are only two or three doors, and two big stars, Chaplin is able to put them in their place, making them act like idiots, like the rest of us – people who are simple and a bit stupid, who open and close doors. That's life, opening and closing doors. That's what he's telling us, and it's of the greatest simplicity. Like all great artists in their last works, he reaches a sort of pure line, very clear, very Japanese, moreover. It's comparable to Ozu's last film, or John Ford's. It's just a dash. It speaks of one thing: life."
Sophia Loren plays Chaplin. O Chaplin se reencarna en Sophia Loren. Película genial.
ResponderEliminarMiguel Marías
como é bom ouvir isso: "Película genial."
ResponderEliminarjá agora:
ResponderEliminar" I wanted to show you an excerpt from A Countess from Hong Kong which is very funny, because it's a way of showing how Chaplin was still struggling even at the end of his life. He was still fighting against inflation. He took the greatest stars of the time, Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren, he put them in a room where there were no doors, and created a game of doors. He remained faithful to his beginnings, making a film with very little, with mankind, with people, a couple, and a sort of room. It takes place in a room on a boat, only that, and from there we're going to work with it. That's more difficult work."
"A Countess from Hong Kong might appear very superficial, very banal. It's a gag we've already seen a thousand times, but there's something very vital, very essential there. So, I come back to this story of resisting death by all means possible. Even if there are only two or three doors, and two big stars, Chaplin is able to put them in their place, making them act like idiots, like the rest of us – people who are simple and a bit stupid, who open and close doors. That's life, opening and closing doors. That's what he's telling us, and it's of the greatest simplicity. Like all great artists in their last works, he reaches a sort of pure line, very clear, very Japanese, moreover. It's comparable to Ozu's last film, or John Ford's. It's just a dash. It speaks of one thing: life."
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