Cinema and Theatre: Preservation or Assassination?

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[...] Problematic: That's why, taking up an expression of Louis Jouvet, I will ask myself if cinema is a theatre in a jar» ? In the word 'conserve', there is the idea of saving something from destruction, but there is also the more negative idea of the tin can. Plan: To address this question, we will begin by asking how cinema somehow saves theatre then we will see how cinema also kills what is alive in theatre and finally how this murder allows cinema to emancipate itself from theatre (III). I. [...]

[...] - To better understand my point: let's see how Sacha Guitry had the revelation of what cinema is and finally fell in love with this art. * Guitry, a man of theater, author of over a hundred plays and thirty films, recounts that he considered the cinema for a long time as a simple means of preserving his theatrical work. * It was only late that he really plunged into cinema when he realized thatthe cinematograph was much closer to the novel than to the theatre? [...]

[...] But = to conserve the memory and the trace of reality in all its diversity. Notably numerous captures of live performances such asThe Cambodian dancers of King Norodom » or even certain scenes of theatre such as the duel of Hamlet with a Hamlet played by Sarah Bernhardt. ? The 1he cinema = often of "the filmed theatre", and the 1he film said of art = The Assassination of the Duke of Guise in 1908 (Le Bargy): a film adaptation of a small play performed at the Comédie française with actors from the Comédie française (18 mn). [...]

[...] Is cinema 'theatre in a jar' (Jouvet)? - Grand oral of Arts, speciality Theatre Grand Oral of Speciality Theatre: Problem: Is cinema 'theatre in a jar' (Jouvet)? Introduction: Captatio: Louis Jouvet is one of the greatest actors of French cinema. He is Dr. Knock for eternity who asks an imaginary patient: « does it tickle you or does it scratch you?». He is Mr. Edmond, the man of Mrs. Raymonde played by Arletty in Hôtel du nord and he triggers one of the most mythical scenes in French cinema with his need to change the atmosphere, and my atmosphere is you. ». [...]

[...] - More fundamentally, cinema by integrating the theatrical, allows to preserve the central questioning of theatre on truth and lie. Jouvet even if he feels like in 'an air-conditioned aquarium» in cinema, recognizes to this art a formidable 'efficacy» and his 'superiority among the public. » ? That's why he wants to use this support to popularize the theatrical effect: in the cinema, he will remain a theater actor who likes to take on all roles ? it's not the natural that he aims for, but the pleasure of playing with characters of composition that play and play with others. [...]