What Is Harold Lloyd's Style

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Another major contender in the comedy genre was Harold Lloyd. He had an unpredictable style of comedy at first. For a long time he wanted to model himself after Charlie Chaplin until he came into his own unique style. Chaplin’s clothes were too big for him, so Lloyd wore clothes that were too small for him. However, it was not as simple as reversing Chaplin’s style. One day someone put him in oval wire glasses and it somehow became part of his persona. Lloyd eventually evolved on his own and claimed his own unique style. “At times he would seem meek but then would explode suddenly with force and anger” (Cousins, p. 73). He became most famous for his incredible stamina and ability to perform outrageous stunts, known as his “human fly” act. In Safety Last he is seen climbing the side of a building, along the way running into many obstacles that would threaten to push him off. He was unparalleled in the way he performed such dangerous stunts all for the sake of comedy. It is true that movies have a certain connection to the time period in which they were created. For example, during the Depression, movies like The Wizard of Oz (1939), Gone with the Wind (1939), and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) were a way for people to escape worry from everyday life surrounding the economy. In this way, silent films in …show more content…

The Jazz Singer was the film that really set off the prosperous time period with its inclusion of sound in the first ever “talkie”. The films in the golden age of Hollywood all had a particular outline, dubbed later the “classic Hollywood style”, consisting of a clear beginning, middle, and end. Films during this time were heavily focused on mankind. A classic Hollywood narrative is usually centered on a couple of characters and their drive and psychological motivation to their actions which eventually leads to their desired goal somewhere around the end of the

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