Jean-Luc Godard on Jerry Lewis and The Day the Clown Cried

Jean-Luc Godard talks to Dick Cavett about Jerry Lewis.

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[Scott93205]

@trueorbetter I could send you entire books in French discussing Jerry Lewis's genius. He’s a member of the French Legion of Honor, for God’s sake. Are you sure it was France you were in? Where you live now, have you noticed the address? You seem to have no sense of your surroundings.

[ThyEpicCommenter]

@sauroid1 ...accidentally loaded onto a boxcar and was sent to the camp where he had to load the children to the gas chambers, hoping for a miracle as he saw their fate. Seeing as there was none he went in with them and continues performing, the final scene showing the children laughing before they cut the movie off.

[ThyEpicCommenter]

@sauroid1 It wasn't supposed to be funny... It's essentially about a once great clown who made a joke about Hitler, got sent to prison, was forced by the other inmates to perform but totally bombed his performance. He did it again outside and was inspired by the children who enjoyed his performance to start again, made a makeshift clown costume and started to have a larger audience. He was forced to perform for the children to keep them quiet while getting on the boxcars to the camps.He is....

[soapbxprod]

@trueorbetter Please look up my name on the iMDB- Luke Sacher. Also, one other document that supports my claim- the words of Jean-Luc Godard.

[soapbxprod]

@trueorbetter Il y a un document qui confirme mon assertion- la Legion d'Honneur.

[soapbxprod]

@trueorbetter Ça suffit de répondre à votre question?

[soapbxprod]

@trueorbetter Je travaillais deux or trois fois par année en France, tirant des Pubs pour le Marché Japonais, pendant les annés quatre-vingts aux quatre-vingts dixes... tous les membres Parisiens de mon équipe de tirage étaient les grands admireurs de Jerry.

[trueorbetter]

@soapbxprod - If you have a document in French that supports your claim that the French know Jerry Lewis very well, I'd like to see it. If there were any truth to this, something would exist, wouldn't it?

[trueorbetter]

@soapbxprod - I am fluent in French, and I used to live in France back in the 1990s. The suggestion that they even know who Jerry Lewis is is a complete myth. He might have been more popular there at one time, but I see no evidence that Lewis ever had anything approaching the cult status that a lot of people claim he does.

Have you ever been to France? Do you know any French? Have you ever talked to any French people? I'd like to know where you get your information.

[soapbxprod]

@ObamaBinLyin You are a faux cul. And a branleur.