I like to laugh, really!
So is it Charlie Chaplin
or Buster Keaton?
or Buster Keaton?
I open this question up for debate so I'm waiting to hear who's your favorite and why?
As far as humor goes I lean toward British humor: Monty Python & Mr. Bean etc.
The French also have Louis de Funès with his twisted slapstick comedy.
A more recent subtle but funny French actor is Daniel Auteuil. He was very funny in films like The Closet (2001) and Après vous... (2003).
3 comments:
I really don't like comedy much right now because, it seems, being funny means being stupid, which I just find annoying. I like the old comedies which were more about dialogue and timing and facial expressions then how crude you could be. See- Jimmy Stewart in Philadelphia Story and Cary Grant in anything! Those are two very funny guys! I haven't seen Keaton or Chaplin in anything but they seem like they are about physical comedy which is something else that I don't care for.
I really liked Cary Grant in His Girl Friday (1940) and a few of the Alfred Hitchcock films he was in. But his comedic style was mostly fast talk and physical comedy like in Bringing Up Baby (1938). In silent films comedy had to be physical but it was all about the close ups of facial expressions too. See my post about Keaton - he was called "The Great Stone Face."
Unlike 'the lurker' ( Sorry C. ) I LOVE COMEDY! Rather than seeing Comedy as something without substance, I find it a very demanding art that offers much for the soul. A good laugh or a tease gives much to one's outlook and even one's physical well being. Keaton and Chaplin, while perhaps appearing to offer only slapstick or physical comedy, presented much more during their preformances. I believe the end result of their art was only entertain.
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