“When you say that... Smile”
Pathos and comedy in the works of Keaton and Chaplin
Keywords:
Slapstick comedy, pathos, pantomime, melodrama, parodyAbstract
Throughout its history, slapstick comedy has often combined laughter with thrills. The two names we are focusing on in this essay, Chaplin and Keaton, provide us with examples that are to some extent opposite and complementary. Chaplin aims for a pathos characterized by a strong emotional closeness, often incorporating situations from nineteenth-century melodrama; on the other hand, Keaton seeks a less direct pathos, sometimes playing on the disproportion between man and his surroundings, sometimes on situations of danger and terror.
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