View Full Version : A tribute to Marcel Marceau through the medium of internet mime


miniminch
23-09-2007, 15:27
:):o:(:(:(:(:help::thumbsup:

Dozy
23-09-2007, 15:30
Is he one of those philosopher chappies like wot LordChaverley refers to on the Open Minds thread??

melthebell
23-09-2007, 15:31
now he'll have a real box to climb out of

R.I.P marcell

cressida
23-09-2007, 15:32
He was in the film Summer Holiday I think - a short interlude

LordChaverly
23-09-2007, 16:21
How do we know he's dead? - he could be miming something.

Personally, I can't say that I will miss him. A mildly amusing (for a minute or so) variety show act somehow became elevated into something equivalent to an art form in the public mind. I am not surprised that it originated in France, the natural home of pretentious pseudery of various kinds. In truth his act was a pretentious bore. Moreover, it has given rise to an unprepossessing crop of even less talented imitators, not least in the form of street beggars.

LordChaverly
23-09-2007, 16:24
He was in the film Summer Holiday I think - a short interlude

cressida, I think you are probably confusing him with Jacques Tati (another French mime bore) and with his film 'M. Hulot's Holiday'.

Plain Talker
23-09-2007, 17:28
*mimes waving "bye-bye" to Monsieur Marceau*. I remember Kenny Everett's mickey take of him.

:wave:

dennistowler
24-09-2007, 19:58
Personally I am with Lord Vetinari

He banned street theatre and would hang mime artists upside down in a scorpion pit opposite a sign that read "Learn the Words"

Mod_Man
24-09-2007, 20:35
You mean I'm not deaf after all? The bloke never spoke?