Safety Last

Japanese: 《Safety Last》(英語表記)SafetyLast
Safety Last

...After that, he created a new character with a style that was common in American cities at the time, a gray flannel suit, a straw hat, and round glasses (later becoming his trademark called "Lloyd glasses"), and broke away from the image of being a Chaplin imitation. He then made a contract with Pathé and Paramount, and produced a series of Lloyd comedies, such as the feature-length films "Safety Last" (1923) and "The Freshman" (1925), which featured righteous young men as the protagonists, and which were thrilling in their ideas, structure, and light tempo rather than in terms of "art" as a comedy. These come to represent the optimism of the typical American middle-class man. At times, he was more popular than Chaplin and Keaton, but his popularity declined with the advent of the talkie era. He made "Lyd's Feet" (1930) and "Lyd's Adventure" (1932), but he was forced to retire in the 1940s due to a gap between his work and the demands of the times. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Safety Last" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…そしてそののち,当時アメリカの都会のどこにでも見られたグレーのフランネル・スーツにストロー・ハット,丸い眼鏡(のちに〈ロイド眼鏡〉と呼ばれるトレードマークになった)というスタイルの新しいキャラクターをつくり出し,チャップリンの亜流のイメージから脱却する。その後パテー,パラマウントと契約して長編《要心無用Safety Last》(1923),《ロイドの人気者The Freshman》(1925)等々,正義派の青年を主人公とし,喜劇としての〈芸〉よりもアイデアと構成,軽快なテンポではらはらさせながら見せるロイド喜劇を次々に生み出して,それらはいわば典型的なアメリカ小市民の楽天主義を代表するものとなっている。 ときにはチャップリンやキートンをしのぐ人気をえたものの,トーキー時代に入って低迷,《足が第一》(1930),《ロイドの活動狂》(1932)などをつくったが,時代の要求との間にギャップが生じ,1940年代に引退を余儀なくされた。…

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