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He Who Gets Slapped is a 1924 American silent psychological thriller film starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert, and directed by Victor Sjöström (credited as Victor Seastrom).
He Who Gets Slapped: Directed by Victor Sjöström. With Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Ruth King. A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him.
Dec 24, 2023 · He is He Who Gets Slapped. A man who has internalized his shame and disappointment, and allowed it to displace his free will and humanity. He renounces the full spectrum of possibilities that humans enjoy, and gives himself a name that binds him to a single purpose.
He Who Gets Slapped (Russian: Тот, кто получает пощёчины, romanized: Tot, kto poluchayet poshchochiny) is a play in four acts by Russian dramatist Leonid Andreyev; completed in August 1915 and first produced in that same year at the Moscow Art Theatre on October 27, 1915.
After Baron Regnard (Marc MacDermott) steals both his greatest invention and his wife, scientist Paul Beaumont (Lon Chaney) loses all self-regard and joins a circus sideshow to...
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On the eve of great success, a scientist ("He Who Gets Slapped") loses both his invention and his wife to Baron Regnard, who describes his victim as a fool. He decides to lose himself in the laughter of others and becomes France's most famous clown.
A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him. Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns.
Apr 18, 2020 · After Baron Regnard (Marc MacDermott) steals both his greatest invention and his wife, scientist Paul Beaumont (Lon Chaney) loses all self-regard and joins a circus sideshow to become the most famous clown in France, known as "He Who Gets Slapped" by other clowns.
He Who Gets Slapped is the story of a scientist whose happiness is destroyed by a friend who steals not only his wife but also the results of his life’s research. The scientist turns bitter and, in desperation, joins a circus as a clown whose popular act is based on being repeatedly slapped.
HE, the clown, has made a career out of being thrown around. He masks the agony of once becoming a genius scientist whose study and wife were robbed by a colleague under the mask. When the time comes, he will exact his vengeance.
