He Who Gets Slapped

He Who Gets Slapped

He Who Gets Slapped is a 1924 American silent tragedy and drama film starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, and John Gilbert, and directed by Victor Sjöström. The film is based on the Russian play ???, ??? ???????? ???????? ("He Who Gets Slapped", transliterated as Tot, kto polu?ájet poš?ó?iny) by playwright Leonid Andreyev, which was published in 1914 and in English, as He Who Gets Slapped, in 1922. The Russian original was made into a Russian movie in 1916. He Who Gets Slapped was the first film produced entirely by the newly formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was not, however, MGM's first released movie, as the film was held until the Christmas season when higher attendance was expected. The movie was highly profitable for the fledgling MGM, and was critically hailed upon release. It was also the first film to feature Leo the Lion as the mascot for MGM. Previously, Leo appeared in the logo for Goldwyn Pictures Corporation in 1916, and the trademark was retained by MGM when the companies merged. The film was important in the careers of Chaney, Shearer, Gilbert, and Sjöström. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Year:
1924
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Opening Title Card:
In the grim comedy of life, it has been wisely said that the last laugh is the best...

Tricaud:
Over a hundred slaps last night, HE - you lucky fellow! Soon you'll be getting famous! But you know what they like - there's nothing makes people laugh so hard as seeing someone else get slapped!

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A strange thing, the heart of a man - that loves, suffers, and despairs - yet has courage to hope, believe - and love - again.

Title Card:
Laughter - the bitterest and most subtle death to hope...

Baron Regnard:
I hate clowns!

Paul Beaumont:
[laughs] I hate Barons!

Paul Beaumont:
[to the ferocious lion] Come, my friend - give me the last slap!

HE:
You forget, gentlemen - this is a circus - love must wait - - the performance must go on!

Paul Beaumont:
He slapped me, Marie. I would have killed him, but they laughed - laughed as if I were a clown.

Marie Beaumont:
Yes, I love him! Why shouldn't I, you fool?

Marie Beaumont:
What have you given me - that I should love you? You with your silly face and stupid books!

[Slaps her husband, Paul Beaumont]

Marie Beaumont:
Fool! Clown!

Paul Beaumont:
[In disbelief] Fool! Clown!

[laughs hysterically]

Title Card:
Paul Beaumont lived - to laugh at life. He laughed at his wife and the Baron - and left them to the doubtful joy of each other's society.

Title Card:
Years had passed - Paul Beaumont was forgotten - but the laugh was still his. For the brilliant scientist had, with a supreme gesture of contempt, made himself a common clown - In a little circus near Paris, he amused the idle, the ignorant and vicious, with an act of his own fancy - under the expressive name of "HE - Who Gets Slapped" - Five years before, Tricaud had hired the strange clown who desired only to be slapped - and now each night he proudly counted his slaps - and the laughs...

Marie Beaumont:
How stupid people are - to laugh at a clown who lets himself be slapped.

Title Card:
What is it in human nature that makes people quick to laugh when someone else gets slapped - whether the slap be spiritual, mental - or physical - ?

Consuelo:
[laughing] Bravo, HE - funnier than ever...

Title Card:
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may...

Bezano:
Do you hear the cuckoo?

HE:
Let us drink to - the one who laughs last!

HE:
Honorable Gentlemen - the world must have its love...

HE:
Honorable Gentlemen - the world must have its tragedy...

HE:
You see - I am happy - I am smiling - a fool is always smiling...

Title Card:
What is Death - ? What is Life - -? What is Love - -?

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