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He Who Gets Slapped
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })He Who Gets Slapped is a 1924 silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, starring Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, and Norma Shearer.Chaney is Paul Beaumont, a scientist with "radical theories on the origin of mankind". His patron is Baron Regnaud (Marc McDermott), who has sponsored Beaumont up until his breakthrough — but Regnaud has designs both on Beaumont's research and Beaumont's pretty wife Maria (Ruth King). At the Academy of the Sciences, Regnaud presents Beaumont's research as his own. When Beaumont protests, Regnaud slaps him in the face, and the assembled scientists laugh. A crushed Beaumont goes home, only to discover that his wife has left him for Regnaud. She laughs at him, calling him a clown and a fool.His psyche thus shattered, a bitter Beaumont turns his back on the world and gets a job as a clown called "HE". His act is "He Who Gets Slapped", and it is a slapstick recreation of his humiliation in front of the scientists, with the clowns slapping him as he proclaims great scientific theories. The crowds laugh at Beaumont, and he in turn loathes them, and he seems to have settled into a stable if empty existence. But his heart is stirred again by the new bareback rider in the circus, Consuelo (Shearer), even if she in turn has fallen in love with the old bareback rider, the handsome Bezano (Gilbert). And Regnaud turns up again...Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })He Who Gets Slapped was the first film ever made by the new MGM studios, created by the merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer's production company. It was also the first MGM film to feature the Leo the Lion logo, which had originated with Goldwyn. | |
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Anguished Declaration of Love: A particularly agonizing one as Beaumont spills out his heart to Consuelo, telling him he'll save her from Regnaud, only for her to think he's kidding. The shot where Beaumont's shock and horror twist into a laugh is a highlight for Chaney. | |
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Arranged Marriage: A pretty grubby one, as Count Mancini basically sells Consuelo to Baron Regnaud for cash. | |
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All Part of the Show: When Beaumont staggers out into the ring bleeding to death from a stab wound, the audience thinks it's his act. They don't figure it out until his final collapse. | |
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