About
STAN LAUREL and OLIVER HARDY’s
RECURRING THEMES
They often slam into each other's heads, most of all
when walking in or out a door, or carrying out an operation, such as
picking something up off the ground. They also smash
their heads into the door itself, likely on the nose, especially when
they are on either side of the door, and want to walk
through it in opposite directions. That also might happen even when
they are just close by an entrance.
Oliver Hardy usually gets hit on the head by a brick
or a vase, a cannon ball or else. When something to that effect occurs,
especially if it is Stan Laurel's fault, he will look
straight into the camera at the audience, sigh in discouragement and shake
his head. When he gets surprised and scared all of a
sudden, he will still look into the camera (in a wider frame), and, with
his eyes and mouth wide open, he will grab his hat on
his head and raise it up to the full stretch of his arms, and then beat
it out of there.
Stan Laurel often gets harried and undergoes the
violent manners on Oliver Har-dy's part, sometimes taking the blame for
events with which he actually has no-thing to do. Usually, though, he is
not affected by many misfortunes (such as rocks on the head, falls and
tumbles...), which do occur to Oliver Hardy, and of which Stan is at times
the cause or the instrument, even if in a casual and uninten-tional way. Oliver becomes angry and upset, insults him and
reproaches him, sometimes in a violent manner; he will often turn to the
audience as if to exclaim what on earth he ever did to deserve those
adventures alongside such a companion, although Stan
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