Friedrich Wilhelm Murnaus The Last Laugh :: Film Movies

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnaus The destination LaughAbout The conductor Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau is one of the most important hitmakers of the cinema during Weimar Republic period. He is often grouped with Fritz Lang and G.W. Pabst as the big three directors of Weimar Germany. He finished his life story in Hollywood and was killed at a young age 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 rough him. Early in his career he created one of horror film, Nosferatu (1922) his persist film was Tabu (1931), a documentary film in the sec Seas. He was one of the pioneers in the technical side of the film industry, experimenting particular effects in Nosferatu and Faust and the use of the moving camera in The Last Laugh. But at the same time he was a verify storyteller, a director who could describe simple stories with a vast run away of emotion and meaning.Plot Summary The matu re doorman at the Hotel Atlantis is olympian of his job and he does it well (sort of). One day he carries a large suitcase into the lobby. He needs to sit gloomy for a moment what is seen and written d deliver by a young hotel conductor. The old man looses his job and is made the toilet man of the hotel. He tries not to show it, however he is broken. Now only some large-minded of wonder can help The film begins a trip down an open elevator and through the busy lobby of the Hotel Atlantic. The movement continues unfeigned 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 postureting 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 The young hotel manager witnesses this situation and the next day the doorman finds out that he has been replaced by a younger man and demoted to toilet attendant.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 dem otion leads him to isolation. 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.