Chaplin Today: Limelight (2003 TV Movie)
Bernardo Bertolucci: Self
Quotes
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Bernardo Bertolucci, Himself : It made me remember how bitter my tears were when I was 12 and I saw it for the first time. The same bitter taste in my mouth, the same emotions, watching "Limelight." I saw it again recently. I think, we all suffer from some sort of emotional subjection to the movie. I know, I do.
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Bernardo Bertolucci, Himself : She is lying. And deep inside, she knows she is. He knows Terry is lying. And we know, he knows. It's all sort of - staged. Calvero is overwhelmed by the affection shown to him at the end of his life. A 20 year old girl telling this man of 60 or more, "Let's get married. I love you." However, the incredible amount of affection she shows him, equals the amount of humiliation that Calvero must feel. He knows only too well, that she would marry him out of mere pity, not love. His smile makes us cry.
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Bernardo Bertolucci, Himself : Clearly whose dying here, is not Calvero; but, Charlie Chaplin. That's all I wanted to say.
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Bernardo Bertolucci, Himself : Watching the end of "Limelight" again, I feel like crying. And it doesn't happen too often to me. With "Limelight," tears flow very easily. This is an interview. It would be unusual and quite embarrassing to start crying in front of the camera. But, there is something else. What covers Calvero, is not a shroud, its not a hospital sheet, it's a screen. We have seen theater, theater and more theater. What now covers him is not a theater curtain; but, the movie screen. Chaplin is saying, "There. Chaplin is over. Calvero, an image of myself, has got to die, in order to allow youth, Terry, to flourish." This is the end of the sublime exorcism, that is "Limelight."
