FREE ON YOUTUBE Harald Lloyd - Safety Last

FREE ON YOUTUBE (DU FINDEST DEN GANZEN FILM FREI AUF YOUTUBE) What is the most famous picture from the silent movie era? A guy with a straw hat and horn-rimmed glasses hanging from the hand of a clock, twelve floors above the street. The scene is from Harold Lloyd's "Safety Last". Who has ever seen it before? I mean, the whole movie? Exactly - the customers from our video store didn't. Everybody knows the scene, nobody knows the film. Lloyd was the third genius of the silent era. Unfortunately, his work has never been as easily accessible as Chaplin & Keaton's. Fortunately, there's YouTube, where you can stream all of his major films! Lloyd's work in the 20s surpassed that of Chaplin. He produced many more films and was more accessible to the average citizen. A guy like you and me. Lloyd's character was normal. Uninspired and uninteresting. That's why he needed the glasses - they formed his character! Here he plays - "The Boy" - a dealer who becomes the manager of the department store. And he wants to go even higher. His trick: the roommate should climb the skyscraper. A great marketing idea in itself! But a policeman appears and drives the roommate away. "The Boy" himself has to replace him and climb the building... The Clou: Everything looks real! It really seems to be Harald Lloyd, who climbs onto the building, is thrown with peanuts and is chased by pigeons. After all, there were no special effects in 1923! So we are on the building with the glasses character and share his joy of finally arriving at the top. And we understand why Lloyd trumped Chaplin & Keaton during the 1920s: his character is mortal. A real man. A real guy who was forced to do extraordinary things. Pay attention to the subtleties. Certainly the scene wasn't rehearsed big! Certainly the background is real. And certainly Lloyd was in danger of his life! The fascinating thing: Everything not only looks real, but also new. We can experience this just as intensively as on the day of the premiere in 1923!