Word: clown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protagonist. My standard for identifying with movie characters is not high: the character may be as unintelligent or misguided as he likes, but he must have some glimmer of good intentions. La Strada , for example, which was very depressing, reached me because I could well have been the clown on the road...
...verbose new talkie (A Countess from Hong Kong) panned in the '60s. Though such indisputable masterworks as The Gold Rush and Modern Times have been sporadically revived, the tramp is now customarily seen in scraps and splices in anthology films. They seldom probe an aspect of the clown that was once the most universally acknowledged: his genius...