The Dumb&Dumber/Chaplin "Tradition"

in article OGE6b.2391$Yt.874@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net, Rob Farr at
lippfarr.DeleteThis@nine.netcom.com when replying change nine to ix wrote on 9/7/03
6:31 AM:

> On Amazon.com, a reviewer from Baltimore writes of "The Peter Sellers
> Collection" thusly:
>
> "These movies are so funny even 30 - 40 years after their release. Obviously
> they are not funny in the "dumb and dumber" "charlie chaplin" traditional
> way, but in an eccentric way."
>
> Chaplin would be so proud. (Read the preceding statement as dripping with
> sarcasm).

That is because all Chaplin ever did was waddle around and kick people in
the butt. At least in the eyes of those who have see fragments and no
films. And that, sadly enough, is most people.

JN
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"Rob Farr" lippfarr.RemoveThis@ix.netcom.comwrites:

> On Amazon.com, a reviewer
> from Baltimore writes of "The
> Peter Sellers Collection" thusly:

> "These movies are so funny even
> 30 - 40 years after their release.
> Obviously they are not funny in
> the "dumb and dumber" "charlie
> chaplin" traditional way, but in
> an eccentric way."

> Chaplin would be so proud. (Read
> the preceding statement as dripping
> with sarcasm).

If all you'd seen of Chaplin was some PD clips from the Keystones and Essanays,
you might think this description was pretty accurate.

Also keep in mind that Amazon.com "reviewers" are hardly professionals...


Tom Moran

"The people can always be brought to the bidding
of the leaders...All you have to do is to tell them
they are being attacked, and denounce the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger."

Hermann Goering
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James Neibaur (jneibaur@wi.rr.com) writes:
> in article OGE6b.2391$Yt.874@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net, Rob Farr at
> lippfarr DeleteThis @nine.netcom.com when replying change nine to ix wrote on 9/7/03
> 6:31 AM:
>
>> On Amazon.com, a reviewer from Baltimore writes of "The Peter Sellers
>> Collection" thusly:
>>
>> "These movies are so funny even 30 - 40 years after their release. Obviously
>> they are not funny in the "dumb and dumber" "charlie chaplin" traditional
>> way, but in an eccentric way."
>>
>> Chaplin would be so proud. (Read the preceding statement as dripping with
>> sarcasm).
>
> That is because all Chaplin ever did was waddle around and kick people in
> the butt. At least in the eyes of those who have see fragments and no
> films. And that, sadly enough, is most people.
>
> JN

Including, unfortunately, some very sophisticated people who ought to
be curious enough to watch at least one feature. But Tom has a point--
this reviewer doesn't fall in that category.

To me what is worse than ignorance is seeing a Chaplin film and
being completely oblivious to the edginess and irony. If someone
thinks Chaplin is "too sentimental," he's missed the point almost
completely.

Connie K.

--
"Our century is inconceivable without its . . . inconclusive mob of isms."
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