| Chaplin is one of the greatest contemporary comedy masters, his humorous performance has made profoundly and indelible impression to the audience, and brought laughter to the entire world. Chaplin based on the human tragedy, and has created his own comedy system. Steven Chow, on the other hand, is the most influential comedy movie actor in China, and also is the splendid comedy director and producer. His distinctive style of comedy performance has become the savior and guarantee of Hong Kong movie box office. He is called as "king of the comedy" by the movie fan and the media.Chaplin has portrayed the immortal tramp image, while we often can see the unimportant pipsqueak in Steven Chow's movie. Although these roles take up the lowest social level, but all of then are vivid, full of ideal, just looks like the ordinary weeds, but has the tenacious vitality.Although they lived in the different time, but they describe the same subject, such as pursuing freedom, critiquing darkness, perceiving human nature, and longing for love and dreams.The two world comedy talents have similar artistic performance as they both chose their leading role from the lowest social level. Though they have used different techniques of expression, which are influenced by their life experiences, the social backgrounds, the different cultural between the East and the West, the media system, the knowledge structure, both received the highest praise.Mr. Lu Xun once said that "the comedies show people tearing insignificant things apart". The comedy is precisely through tearing the false appearance into pieces, letting the insignificant content nakedly exposed to cause the artistic effects of awaking human. The outstanding movie is always appreciated throughout by the audience, and influences the human, enlightens for the artist to contemplation, as the later period movies of Chaplin and the Steven Chow are one of this kind. This is the significance for the research of world comedy and the movie theory. |
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