Friedrich Wilhelm Murnaus The Last Laugh :: Film Movies

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnaus The Last Laugh or so The Director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau is one of the most important moviemakers 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 immaculate his career in Hollywood and was killed at a spring chicken get on in a car crash. Three of his films appear on the great films lists of critics and film groups. Even though there seems to be little create verbally about him. Early in his career he created one of villainy 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. tho at the same time he was a master storyteller, a director who could describe simple stories with a abundant range of emotion and meaning.Plot Summary T he old doorman 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 needs to sit stamp out for a moment what is seen and written down by a youngish hotel manager. The old man looses his job and is made the toilet man of the hotel. He tries not to show it, but he is broken. Now only more or less kind of wonder can help The film begins a mail down an open elevator and through the busy lobby of the Hotel Atlantic. The drift continues straight through the hotels revolving doors to rainy outside. The main character is the hotel doorman, a spectacular but he is old. He is an important person, a respected person. But he is getting older and has trouble lifting a large baggage 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 The young hotel manager witnesses this situation and the next day the doorman finds out that he has been replaced by a younger man and demoted to toilet attendant.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 lea ds him to isolation. It comes to the situation where his neighbors and plain 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.