Il comico

Il comico (1969)

The Comic

Il protagonista di questa storia è un attore comico dell'epoca del muto. In sua compagnia riviviamo i magici momenti in cui i primi cineasti cercavano di coinvolgere emotivamente gli spettatori facendoli piangere e ridere e, allo stesso tempo, cercavano e creavano un linguaggio nuovo. L'attore è particolarmente versato nell cosiddette "comiche" basate tutte sul ritmo, sugli inseguimenti dei poliziotti e sulle torte in faccia. Una via di mezzo tra Chaplin e Buster Keaton.

Data di uscita
1969-11-19
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (12)
Durata
1 h 31 min
Generi
Commedia, Dramma
Regista
Carl Reiner

Cast

Curiosità

The Comic is a 1969 American Pathécolor comedy-drama film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Carl Reiner. It stars Dick Van Dyke as Billy Bright, Michele Lee as Bright's love interest, and Reiner himself and Mickey Rooney as Bright's friends and colleagues. Reiner wrote the screenplay with Aaron Ruben; it was inspired by the end of silent film era and, in part, by the life of silent film superstar Buster Keaton.

Production

In his autobiography, Carl Reiner said that he wrote the film as a vehicle for Van Dyke, who had often expressed the wish on the set of their TV show The Dick Van Dyke Show that he had been working at the same time as comedy legends such as his hero Stan Laurel.

Reiner loosely patterned the story of Bright's career downfall on the real-life travails of a number of early film actors, primarily Buster Keaton, who likewise saw his Hollywood success falter as filmgoers' tastes changed and he fell into alcoholism.

Some details parallel the experiences of silent comedians Harry Langdon and Harold Lloyd, as well as the film's co-star Mickey Rooney.

Van Dyke said in a 2025 interview he would go out with the crew with a 16mm camera and "look for things to do." He continued, "If a fire engine went by, I jumped on it. We had reams of footage that unfortunately disappeared. Just fun things we did out in public." To give the footage a vintage appearance, Van Dyke said the crew took all the film out in his backyard and dragged it over the grass.

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