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Fechtor, now a freshman at Harvard, became interested in mime through drama during his sophomore year of high school. He and a drama teacher coached each other through mime classes. "Neither of us knew anything about mime--maybe we'd seen Marcel Marceau on television for ten minutes once. So I just watched and told him how I looked, and he watched me and told me how I looked, and that's how we learned," says Fechtor...
...summer after his junior year, Fechtor studied under mime artist Jewel Walker at the Carnegie-Mellon School of Drama. Last spring he spent a trimester studying in France with Etienne Decroux, Marcel Marceau's teacher. The 76-year-old Decroux was a strict instructor "For the entire first month I was there he didn't speak to me," says Fechtor. "He just sort of eyed me critically. The second month he began to criticize my work." Like Fechtor, who hopes to go into creative writing or philosophy, Decroux has a strong interest in language--he used to be an orator...
...worst thing you can say about Marcel Ophuls is that whatever his politics, artistically he is a bourgeois humanist--mawkish, inconclusive, unclear, visually universalizing the particular. At the same time, his films show the power of that bourgeois humanism to move into an extra-political realm in which each person must ask himself how he would respond in the same situation of political and moral crisis...
...despite what many people have inferred from his films, Marcel Ophuls does not have a coherent philosophical analysis of political problems. Instead he focuses on the human side of political situations. Realizing this, we come to the roots of the Ophuls riddle. Looking at a critical example from his work will perhaps make things clearer...
...many others in these films, I was forced to recognize that there is indeed a bond that exists beyond political, social and linguistic boundaries. If the term metaphysical has any validity at all (and I believe it does) then it must truly exist to describe this bond. What Marcel Ophuls can do as well as almost anyone else is to touch with power and grace the realm in which all human beings are very much alike...