Chaplin on comedy

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Aug '07

“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
Charlie Chaplin

Look at that. A setting, a conflict and a goal. Why does Charlie Chaplin make things look so simple?

http://nancyfulda.livejournal.com Nancy Fulda

Funny. I would have tagged the policeman as the character and the pretty girl as the conflict…
http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com Mary Robinette Kowal

Ah, but you are forgetting Chaplin is there. He’s the everyman, who is the main character.
http://nancyfulda.livejournal.com Nancy Fulda

Ah. Right. In that case, I see how the policeman would be a conflict…
http://tithenai.livejournal.com Amal

Maybe because he had no words to wrangle in or out of the way? ; )
http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com Mary Robinette Kowal

It’s still a story. The words are just the medium it’s told in.

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