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31: 181:, Hulot may even represent an inversion of The Tramp: "Hulot tilts forwards whereas Chaplin tilts back; Chaplin's puppet-like waddle is very different from Hulot's 'springy glide'; and there is a difference in costume too: the bowler, tails, huge pants, cane and cigarette are replaced by a pipe, various accessories, pants that are too short, a sports blazer and a 192:
Of Hulot, Jacques Tati remarked that he is "tall, and he cannot hide – he cannot conceal himself behind a lamppost or anything else – whereas Chaplin could hide behind a small trash can, leave his hat on the can, then sneak behind another small can, while making people
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He is recognized by his overcoat, pipe and hat, and his distinctive lurching walk. He is clumsy and somewhat naive of the evolving world around him, but still has a friendly, well-meaning, and good-natured persona. His escapades usually involved clashes with technology and the problems of living in
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Hulot is the guy you recognize because he was in the same barracks as you, even though he never became a close friend. He gives you the illusion of familiarity, which really doesn't exist. He develops into a real person only when you bump into him by accident one night... By creating Hulot, Tati
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aims to re-establish a distance. From the start, Hulot is someone who exists only in the eyes and mouths of the beholder. He is someone who awakens suspicion or amused attention... Hulot is a blurred man, a passer-by, a
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believe that he was still in back of the first one, whereupon he would come back to grab his hat. Hulot, by contrast, has the stature of a rather steady or stand-up guy; he behaves exactly like any man from
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recurring character M. Piedlourde ("Mr. Heavyfoot") has also been compared to Hulot.
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The name of "Monsieur Hulot" is believed to echo "Charlot," the French name for
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for a series of films in the 1950s through the early '70s, namely
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Bean There Done That: The Life and Times of Rowan Atkinson
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World Directors in Dialogue: Conversations on Cinema
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an increasingly impersonal and gadgetized world. In
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Jacques Tati
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
Trafic
Jacques Tati
[məsjþylo]
Jacques Tati
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot
Mon Oncle
Playtime
Trafic
François Truffaut
Bed & Board
Charlie Chaplin
The Tramp
David Bellos
Homburg
Keaton
Paris
Michel Chion
Roger Ebert
Rowan Atkinson
Mr. Bean
The Kids in the Hall
"A Honey of a Jam"
Archived


The Cinema of France
ISBN

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