If
there's anything that kept a steady form in film history it's the solo male
comedian flick. Each of today's top leading solo comedians (Jim Carrey, Adam
Sandler, Rowan Atkinson) takes on one of the leading figures of the 20's
and the 30's: while Rowan Atkinson lovingly restages whole scenes from Keaton
(the pool scene from "The Cameraman", for instance), it is Adam
Sandler who does so for Harold Lloyd, the 20's "third comedian". And
rightly so, for Sandler's sensitivities, as well as his penchant for Cinderella
stories, fit perfectly with Lloyd happy-go-lucky, yet not overtly funny films.
There is hardly a laugh out loud scene in Lloyd's films but they are all feel
good movies. It takes a while but once you start realizing that Lloyd is
bashing out almost anything and everyone in his society (including some
outright racial gags) one can find in him, as much as in Sandler, some
Diogenesian qualities. In fact, like Howard's "Conan the Barbarian"
influence on fantasy fic, Lloyd's influence, and his typical Cinderella flicks,
are much more conventional in today's cinematic culture then any of his better
known contemporaries, be it Chaplin or Keaton.
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