Marcel Marceau
Monday, September 24th, 2007 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI see that Marcel Marceau has died. The man who revived mime as an art form - or rather the man who is to blame for the revival of it was 84 years old.
I must admit that though he was pretty much a household name, I have never seen him perform on TV or anywhere else. He may have been better than street mimes, but it's his fault they are there. He made 12 films including Barbarella with Hanoi Jane. I don't recall seeing him in that, but I have watched the movie, so I guess I can say I've seen him perform.
Sinister, not funny.
I have never understood the appeal of mime. I appreciate that it is very clever - or at least that it can be, but to my mind it is also rather boring and inherently too creepy to be fun. Very much like clowns in a circus, there is something generally too deranged about it for me to find mime entertaining.
I must admit that though he was pretty much a household name, I have never seen him perform on TV or anywhere else. He may have been better than street mimes, but it's his fault they are there. He made 12 films including Barbarella with Hanoi Jane. I don't recall seeing him in that, but I have watched the movie, so I guess I can say I've seen him perform.
Sinister, not funny.
I have never understood the appeal of mime. I appreciate that it is very clever - or at least that it can be, but to my mind it is also rather boring and inherently too creepy to be fun. Very much like clowns in a circus, there is something generally too deranged about it for me to find mime entertaining.