Word: mimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...context of the rags to riches Cinderella theme, Chaplin also deals with his artistic personality. When the beleaguered factory worker finally breaks down, he does not collapse, but dances a ballet-mime. And near the end of the film, when Chaplin must sing before a crowd and loses his words he improvises a song much better than the original. In each case, Chaplin arrives at a moment of extreme tension and reacts not by anger, but by artistic creation--a rather extraordinary effort at transcendence. And in the image of the singing waiter, Chaplin confronts the threat of the talkies...
Jodorowsky, as he himself explains to his unimaginatively curious questioners, is 42 years old, was born in Chile of Russian-Polish parents, studied mime under Marcel Marceau, has operated a theater in Mexico City where he also writes a weekly comic strip. Tired of "working with flesh" as a stage director, Jodorowsky made his first movie in order to "work with symbols." "John Wayne is a symbol, not a man," he explains. "For me, a picture must not have poetry, but epic poetry. Search for archetypes. I go it alone...
Much of the production depends on mime, on suggesting rather than acting out. There are no props: even Caesar's mantle, which Antony addresses in his funeral oration, is made out of empty air. The assassination and battle scenes are elaborately choreographed and acted out tableaux, replete with ritualistic mock blows and falls. Somehow, they work in a way that a literal reading of the script never could. The scene of Caesar's ghost, mocking the actions of the servant as he holds the sword on which Brutus falls is utterly chilling, as no prop-ridden version could...
...pretend that Christ was under thirty when he died. At least that's the way he acts in this "musical adaptation of the Gospel According to St. Matthew," which comes complete with theological endorsement by none other than Harvey Cox. Godspell's Christ is part clown, part mime, and an all-around song-and-dance man. His is not to tread the weary way of the Via Dolorosa but to hoof instead down the memory lane of Tin Pan Alley...
...film was made in Mexico by Alexandro Jodorowsky, a Charles-Mansonish-looking, sincere, 40-year-old Chilean of Polish-Russian parentage who was once a member and composer for Marcel Marceau's mime-troupe. Between TV, talk shows he now runs a Mexico City theatre and writes a comic strip "Fabulas Panicas" ("Panic Fables") for a newspaper in Mexico City. Jodorowsky wrote, directed, and is the hero of the film...