NOT DONE YET…..or maybe it is…
I have this funny thought that maybe Clark inhearited this Chevy from his dead mom…. a long with a lot of money left in the bank and he has been spending his time fixing up the car as an alter to 911 victims and drinking beerl. I imagine that the narrator (Charlie?) inherits it and it is in the back seat at the funeral, or after the trial that the Wolloughby/narrator confrontation takes place. It is an improve based off of Brando in On The Waterfront. “You shoulda looked out for me a little Charlie.”
Today is as hot as Clark’s temper. I’ve been doing these drawings based on Hitler and Charlot. It is odd to watch The Great Dictator (it was on TCM this weekend some late late hour and I cought Charlie giving his political peace speach at the end) and realize that Charlie came before Hitler… the Mustache was his trade mark. A friend tells me that Lenni Riefenstahl (the great and controversial maker of Olympia and Triumph of the Will) told Hitler to cop Chaplin’s Mustache. She said it would work to his psychological advantage in the mass perception. He would be instantly recognizable, sympothetic, working man (Socialist)… and he could talk the most hateful stuff while giving a warm glow. I don’t know if that’s true, but Leni was pretty clever. I had a professor at Brown who taught European History. He had been in Berlin in 1938 for the Olympics. When You got him on the subject of Chaplin’s film… even all these years later, you could see the steam shoot out of his ears: “It didn’t make it any easier having Chaplin turn Hitler into a laughing stock… Hitler was not funny… Hitler was serious and most of the world was just trying to laugh him off and Charlie Chaplin with his good intentions didn’t help one bit…. comedy…Ha! Tragedy.
My new hard drive has finally arrived, which means edititng Willoughby improves and doing a new build. Maybe that’s why I’m posting so much now…. To get ahead of myself. I’ll be shaving ice and posting clark as he comes along.
