3846 - SAFETY LAST (1923)

     SAFETY LAST! (USA, 1923) – Esse filme é a introdução perfeita para a obra de Harold Lloyd que, aqui, é um rapaz simplório tentando ter sucesso na cidade grande, como empregado de uma loja de departamento. Bolando uma jogada de marketing, ele, literalmente, tenta subir na vida. A sequência final, com Lloyd pendurado nos ponteiros do grande relógio do prédio da loja, é uma das imagens mais icônicas da história do cinema. Safety Last! is the perfect introduction to Harold Lloyd’s body of work. Lloyd plays a small-town bumpkin trying to make it in the big city, who finds employment as a lowly department-store clerk. He comes up with a wild publicity stunt to draw attention to the store, resulting in an incredible feat of derring-do on his part that gets him started on the climb to success. Laugh-out-loud funny and jaw-dropping in equal measure, Safety Last! is a movie experience par excellence, anchored by a genuine legend. This one is rightly famous for its nail-biting finale, but it is filled with memorably comical moments from the outset. Harold Lloyd will forever be associated with Safety Last! because of a single image. Even people who have never seen a Lloyd film are familiar with the iconography of a bespectacled man hanging off the hands of a collapsing clock on the side of a skyscraper high above teeming city streets. It is one of the most celebrated images in cinema.