Monsieur Hulot's Holiday Comments

  • Jeffrey 2022-03-12 08:01:02

    Jacques Tati's first Hulot comedy 1. Nearly silent comedy & group comedy, Mr. Hulot, who is graceful and shy but clumsy and mechanical, is not the only source of comic effect. 2. Body-based sitcoms, most of the jokes are closely related to the extension of human movements or limbs (ie, various tools, such as cars, boats, rackets, towel bars, crutches, shoe spikes bitten by fox fur, etc.). 3. The out-of-tune loudspeaker of the train station is just an example. Most of the time, the words in the...

  • Major 2022-03-12 08:01:02

    The performance that is almost pantomime, but through various sound effects, the comedy effect has reached a level that no number of slapstick films have...

  • Einar 2022-03-12 08:01:02

    Bazin pointed out that Tati's use of sound is "destroying clarity with clarity", and the sudden noise interrupts the ideal holiday atmosphere. A middle-class life that breaks the rules, but if you listen carefully, no dialogue is important, just like no rules are important, Bazin sees that only Hulot is dealing with time, those accidents, out of control and chaos, all kinds of irrelevant details , it is precisely these that make this holiday special. If we're really in Sisyphus' situation, then...

  • Shanny 2022-03-12 08:01:02

    Terry Jones says it's a rare and beautiful...

Extended Reading
  • Rosetta 2022-03-12 08:01:02

    Mr. Hulot was born

    Who is Mr. Hulot? In the 1920s, while serving in the 16th Cavalry Regiment, Tati met a man named Lalouette. The man was a barber who never seemed to realize that being in the military was different from being out there. He called the commander always the sir, not the colonel or something, and after...

  • Betty 2022-03-12 08:01:02

    Hulot and time

    Bazin

    's French cinema has a bit of comedic genius, and it's just a cliché to point out. At least thirty years. Because it should be pointed out that the school of burlesque comedy originated in France at the beginning of this century, Max Linder became its representative, and Mack Sennett moved...

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday quotes

  • [last lines]

    Strolling Man: [to Hulot] See you later. Nice to meet you. My address.

    [hands a visiting card]

  • [first lines]

    Commandant: ...and, dear Lady, in those days I was a Cavalry Captain, and there was discipline and authority!