Word: slapstickers
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...enter the pantheon by the stage door. One morning he tried on Fatty Arbuckle's trousers and Chester Conklin's jacket. The rest is legend. From that moment he essayed only one role-but what a role! The low comic became a visual poet; he gave slapstick soul. Comedy derives from the Greek kōmos-a dance. And indeed, as the Tramp capered about with his unique sleight of foot, he created a choreography of the human condition. Under Chaplin's direction, objects spoke out as never before: bread rolls became ballet slippers, a boot...
...whimsy as an antidote to the cruelty around him. Chaplin's spirit is the only element tying the entire film together; otherwise it is a hodgepodge of styles and aims. It is nearly the last silent to come out of Hollywood, but has some dialogue. It combines pathos, slapstick, leftist social critique, and very personal whimsy on Chaplin's part...
What is all but incredible about this dizzying slapstick is not that the author has the worst case of the Marx blathers on record, but that he is a Cuban, and wrote it all first in Spanish. His novel, a brilliantly loony memoir of life in Havana just before Castro's takeover, was called Tres Tristes Tigres (Three Sad Tigers) in the original. When Cabrera Infante and a couple of steady-nerved friends did the English transmogrification of TTT, the tongue twisting of the title seemed more important than its negligible sense, and so the tigers were trapped...
...goes, in a series of dancing blackouts that range from satire to slapstick. Thanks to the precise timing of the City Ballet soloists, the intricate sight gags work to perfection. In an otherwise delicate sextet, one or another of six girls is either out of place, out of step or out of line. A lyrically complicated double duet turns into a Lao-coon-11ke tangle...
...outrageously without losing control. Singer's parents invade his bedchamber one Sunday morning. His wife finds the conversation unproductive and resettles herself under the bed. The conversation continues, and then Singer gets out of bed and joins his wife. Zooey Glass and his mother come to mind. The slapstick works as well for Rogin as it did for Salinger...