The cold heart melted briefly

I think Chaplin is the most complicated and elusive character in Hollywood history. He is a hard-core leftist, and in the second half of his life, he was swept out by the US government because of his political beliefs and could only live in Switzerland. At the same time, he was accused by many people who worked with him as a pure snob. The shooting of "Mr. Verdoux" is the best example: the script of the film was adapted by the famous and talented Orson Welles based on real people and events in France, and he was going to direct it himself, with Chaplin only starring. A few days before the shooting started, Zhuan Bielin suddenly changed his mind and declared that he had never accepted and was not prepared to accept anyone else to guide his performance. He relied on being one of the producers to kick Orson Wells. Out of the crew. Later, I took the script and changed several plots, and the name of Orson Wells was also crossed out from the screenwriter. Orson Wells is very big, saying that this film is the one with the least contribution of all the films he has participated in.

Chaplin is also famous for his irrepressible interest in women, or more accurately girls. In the silent film era, he had enlarged the belly of a minor girl and was taken to court by his parents. Afterwards, he continued to pursue every heroine in his film ─ ─ are veritable innocent beauties. I have to express my admiration for his vision of choosing girls. The girl Marilyn Nash really shines in this movie, her innocent and straightforward expression is simply unique in the entire history of Hollywood movies. If you just read the script in this scene, you will be very puzzled why Mr. Verdoux would be merciful and why he would let the girl go. The answer is actually written on the girl’s face, and the sympathy, tenderness and even tenderness aroused by her actions and expressions It was the hope brought by love that melted a cold heart. This innocence was not only seen by Mr. Verdoux, but also by everyone who watched the movie. This is the charm of a "person" in the movie, turning unreasonable into reasonable, without explanation, self-explanatory.

Marilyn Nash was a rural girl who had just moved from the country to Los Angeles before acting in this film. She went to Chaplin's house to attend a tennis party, had a cup of tea with Chaplin, and Chaplin signed her the next day. Starred in "Mr. Verdoux". After this film, she never played a decent role. In other words, only Chaplin, relying on his unique pair of eyes, retained the most moving short-lived image of Marilyn Nash in her life.

Today, I was watching "Chinese Film Art History Draft 1949-1959". It said that one year Zhou Enlai accompanied Chaplin in Geneva to watch Sang Hu's "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai". Chaplin was moved to hide his face and cried. I suddenly felt that for a person trying to express himself in a movie, what he craves may not be beauty, but the unwillingness to give up and the emotions that are always agitating for him. It's just "unfortunately" that this triggering passion was brought to him by the girls.

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