Friedrich Wilhelm Murnaus The Last Laugh :: Film Movies

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnaus The Last LaughAbout The Director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau is one of the most important filmmakers of the cinema during Weimar land period. He is often grouped with Fritz Lang and G.W. Pabst as the big three directors of Weimar Ger manhoody. He finished his political machineeer in Hollywood and was killed at a young bestride in a car crash. Three of his films appear on the greatest films lists of critics and film groups. Even though there seems to be little written nigh him. Early in his career he created one of horror film, Nosferatu (1922) his last film was Tabu (1931), a documentary film in the South Seas. He was one of the pioneers in the technical side of the film industry, experimenting special effects in Nosferatu and Faust and the use of the moving camera in The Last Laugh. But at the same time he was a master storyteller, a director who could describe simple stories with a vast range of emotion and meaning.Plot stocky The old doorma n at the Hotel Atlantis is proud of his job and he does it well (sort of). One day he carries a large suitcase into the lobby. He ineluctably to sit down for a moment what is seen and written down by a young hotel manager. The old man looses his job and is made the toilet man of the hotel. He tries not to show it, precisely he is broken. Now further some kind of wonder can help The film begins a agitate down an open elevator and through the busy lobby of the Hotel Atlantic. The movement continues straight through the hotels revolving doors to rainy outside. The main character is the hotel doorman, a striking but he is old. He is an important person, a respected person. But he is getting older and has trouble lifting a large luggage from a car to the hotel and needs a few minutes to rest. The young hotel manager witnesses this situation and the next day the doorman finds out that he has been replaced by a younger man and demoted to toilet attendant. This demotion leads him to is olation. It comes to the situation where his neighbors and even his own family reject him. Just when things seem as bad as they could get for the doorman, the film presents us with the only upside.