Marcel Marceau Passes Away

[filkertom]

Great sadness. Legendary mime Marcel Marceau has passed away at the age of 84.

Comments

[controuble.livejournal.com]

As has Alice Ghostly (http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/TV/Obit_Alice_Ghostley.html) at the age of 81.

[fair-witness.livejournal.com]

Dammit. Too many of my favorite artists are dying this year.

[valsadie.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! So sad :

[jss]

I thought about doing a "Guess he's really trapped in a box now" joke, but decided against it. Then someone else on my flist went ahead with it anyway.

<Sigh>.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

More tasteful would be to simply observe a moment of silence.

[maiac.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn. admnaismith beat me to the Bad Thought: observe a moment of silence.

[gorgeousgary]

I was going to ask if he slipped away quietly...

[darrenzieger.livejournal.com]

To quote George Carlin (on the death of a fictional silent movie actor), "He had no final words; however, he did make several gestures."

All joking aside, this is a great loss. The art of mime may be just a punch line to most people in this culture (honestly, I'm not a big fan of it myself, though I recognize its importance and its merits), but Marceau was one of the great artistic geniuses of the 20th century. He will truly be missed.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

The only speaking part in Mel Brooks' SILENT MOVIE. Hee.

A great teacher as well as a great performer. As long as we keep his teaching going, he is not truly gone. Mime is coming into its own as the arts of Computer Graphics and Motion Capture increase in use. Actors have to act to all kinds of things that are not there!

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

That is a very good observation I had not thought about. I agree, techniques of mime work very well for motion-capture actors used for video games.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I learned of the concept during the early years of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Apparently, Brent Spiner [Data] had taken mime training and wound up coaching other cast members in how to react to monsters that they could not see.

[ororo.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it.

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

Instead of a moment of silence, perhaps we should observe a moment of noise.