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Tinto Brass’s Happy Faces
I’ve never worked on a film
(being in a few crowd shots in CBS’s Special
Olympics [1977] doesn’t count), but even as
a complete outsider, I can distinctly sense the
drudgery when watching most movies. The casts and
crews simply seem to be going through their chores.
Some movies are different. When watching the better
Buster Keaton,
Laurel and Hardy,
Max Davidson,
and Charley Chase
movies, it’s impossible not to imagine
that numerous retakes were necessitated by outbreaks
of the giggles. The folks in those casts and crews
were not simply working for their weekly paychecks,
but were genuinely having a good time. Except for
Yankee and Caligula, Tinto
Brass’s films give that same impression.
Producers, accountants, and supervisors are all
somehow kept out of everyone’s hair, allowing
all the people on the set to work without tension
and have the times of their lives. It shows.
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