Chapter 3 Chapter two

At first glance, only the thin black line between the nose and the upper lip was seen, and then the whole face slowly appeared, and finally, Height's whole body was seen.The short mustache was a trembling curve for a while, then turned into a gentle arc for a while, and then immediately bounced and twisted into a ball.That short moustache is an indicator of Haydt's mental state, not only to make everyone laugh, but also to tell Haydt's mind.That short mustache is like a mechanism to enter his inner world.Although there are several other elements such as eyes, mouths, and carefully designed staggers and staggers to accompany the performance, the short mustache is a sharp tool for expressing emotions, even if it does not use any words, it is all crooked and swaying, It can still convey clear and unambiguous messages like Morse code.

But without the help of the camera, everything is still in vain.The camera lens creates a living and talking mustache.In Haidt's films, the focal length is often changed frequently, and the original long shot or medium shot will suddenly cut into a large close-up.Once the entire frame is filled with Height's face, the surrounding environment elements are completely eliminated, and the mustache becomes the center of the whole world.Then, the beard started to move. Heit was so skillful that he could control every muscle in his face freely, so the beard seemed to have life, like a small creature with independent consciousness and will.As long as the corners of the mouth are slightly raised and the nostrils are slightly dilated, even if the beard is curled into a funny arc, the facial expression remains motionless, as if concentrating on looking at oneself in a mirror.Hite uses this kind of images to present the most abundant and convincing universal human nature, reflecting everyone's inner nature.These close-up pictures are especially used to explain the key process in the plot, connecting the dramatic ups and downs or turning points, and the length of each time will never exceed four or five seconds.Whenever this shot occurs, everything else ends.Hu Zi performed a one-man show on stage, and in that precious piece of auspicious light, thinking overrides all actions.The audience can fully understand Heite's mind, it's like subtitles directly on the screen.As long as this kind of shot appears, its sense of existence is no less than that of a house, a piano, or even a face full of cream pie.

Once active, that mustache is a tool to convey everyone's thoughts.When it is still, it is not just a decoration.It highlights Hite's position in the world, establishes the character he deliberately created, and defines his identity in the eyes of others. But that mustache is unique, because it is ridiculously thin and shiny black, and it will never be mistaken.He is the South American playboy, Latin heartthrob, hot-blooded dark sportsman.Coupled with the docilely combed shiny hair and a signature white suit that will never change, the mix and match creates a certain kind of vigorous and polite impression.This is the so-called visual code.The audience can understand the meaning just by looking at it. Besides, it is a world where manholes are always missing covers, firecrackers are just like cigars, and there are hidden dangers everywhere. But when you see someone walking in the street in a white suit, you know that he is going to accept it. It must be bad luck to come down.

That respectable suit runs through every one of Haydt's films, second only to the beard as a fixture.Beard is connected to his inner self, and it is also a metonym for intuitive impulse, deliberation, and brainstorming.The white suit is a concrete representation of his external social relationship.Since the other scenes in the film are always either gray or black, the white suit is more white and shiny, and it is an out-and-out eye-catching weapon.Hayter appears in the same outfit in each film, and each film routinely includes at least one long sequence in which he goes to great lengths to defend it from dirt.Mud, engine oil, batter, sugar juice, coal ash, sewage, all kinds of black liquids, dirty things, frequently and unexpectedly attacked him.That suit is Haight's proudest asset, and he intends to wear it in a glamorous, fashionable and handsome way, so as to attract the attention of the world.Every morning he puts it on solemnly, like a knight putting on his armor, ready to face whatever social evils lie ahead that day, without ever seriously considering that what he is doing is actually counterproductive.Dressing like that not only failed to protect him from unexpected disasters, but made him a prominent target.Wherever he went, all the misfortune for a hundred yards was concentrated on him alone.The white suit not only showed Hyatt's weakness to the outside world, but also added a sense of melancholy whenever he was being teased by the outside world.With his unwavering elegance and conviction that he could be the most attractive and desirable man in a white suit, Haight elevates his personal vanity into a reason for the audience's sympathy.In Win Double or Lose All, when he rang the doorbell of his girlfriend’s house, he still didn’t forget to reach out to shake off the dust that didn’t exist on his clothes. What the audience saw was no longer a display of narcissism; Men who are too deep set up their own cages.The white suit puts Hyatt at a disadvantage, but it also makes the audience willing to fight with him, and once any actor can do this, he can go anywhere.

Hayter was too tall for a prank, and too good-looking to be crazy and silly like other buffoons.Because Hite was born with a pair of dark eyes and a high nose bridge, he looked like a second-tier male star who performed well in a romance film, but he repeatedly went to the wrong studio and acted in the wrong film.His appearance is that of a mature adult, which seems to violate the laws of comedy.It stands to reason that the appearance of clown comedians should be short and chubby, yin and yang, or they should be round and chubby.The typical comedian is nothing more than a ghost, a clown, a fool, a freak, a kid pretending to be a grown-up, or an adult who is inner childish.Let’s take the fat man Abak as an example: he was born with baby fat, showing a shy smirk from time to time, with feminine lipstick on his lips; whenever a girl glanced at him, he would perform his signature move: quickly put his index finger into his mouth.Here are some of the props and outfits that master comedians used to portray their classic characters: Chaplin as the Tramp wore oversized leather shoes and ragged trousers; Lloyd as Daredevil wore a black frame Big glasses; Goofy Keaton has a flat hat and poker face; Goofy Langton has a whole face painted white.These characters are marginal characters, and because they pose neither threat nor envy to the audience, they will always be applauded by the audience whenever they repel their opponents and capture the hearts of beauties.The only question is: once they embrace a beauty, do they know how to pity her.But Hyatt is different, and the audience will never have the same doubts about him.Once he throws a wink at a girl, the other girl will often throw one back at him, so that the audience knows that walking on the red carpet is not what this couple has in mind.

Then again, Haight wasn't just there for the laughs.He is not the type that everyone loves, nor is he the type that makes people cry.The reason audiences sympathize with him is because of his persistent goofiness.He works hard and plays hard, the embodiment of ordinary people; he is not out of tune with the world, but just a hapless ghost who often stumbles in certain situations.Although Hite always has a well-thought-out plan and a clear goal, he always encounters twists and turns in the practice process, and it is hard to reach the end smoothly.His films are full of inexplicable bodily accidents, unexpected mechanical failures, and objects that move erratically.If it were any other person with less self-confidence, once faced with these setbacks, he would definitely hesitate to move forward, but Haight never complained except for a little anger (expressed in a bearded monologue).Ju Fan gets his hand pinched by a door panel, his neck stung by a bee, and his foot smashed by a statue. He has had bad luck again and again, but he always shrugs and doesn't take it seriously.The audience gradually admired his composure from the bottom of their hearts, and appreciated his composure in spite of adversity, but the most eye-catching thing was his movements.The thousand different gestures of Hite's gestures are charming.His steps are always light and nimble, indifferent to everything around him, and he calmly shuttles through the obstacles in life without showing the slightest clumsiness and fear.It is really dazzling to see him move his feet back, bend over to dodge, turn his body and turn his head, dance in lunge, see him suddenly realize his epiphany, jump slightly, and make graceful roundabouts.Then look at his dexterous operation of fingertips, proper exhalation, slightly stretching his neck and tilting his head when he first saw something unexpected.These delicate body stunts are very effective in portraying the characters' personalities, and even if they are presented individually, they are also very interesting.Whether it's flypaper on the soles of his shoes or a group of mischievous little devils using ropes, even if his arms are tightly bound and his body is hard to move, Height's movements are still very graceful and poised, and he believes that he will soon be out of the current predicament. Just another dilemma.There is no doubt that Hayter was very unlucky, but these were small things.He never cared about how to avoid danger skillfully, and only concentrated on dealing with the thorny troubles in front of him.

Hite often plays the underdog in the film.Only twice has he appeared as a married man (Happy Family and Nobody), and apart from playing a private eye in Probe and a wandering magician in Brander, he's always been down-to-earth. Mental jobs such as the waiter who won the beauty fly, the driver in the countryside on weekends, the door-to-door salesman in the big character dance, the dance teacher in the tango frenzy, and the bank clerk in the cashier.Hite usually appears in the film as a freshman in the society. Although the future is bleak, he will never appear dejected; his strong self-esteem does not allow himself to show weakness, as long as he looks familiar and confident in his work, it is not ugly This person is destined to rise to prominence in the future.Therefore, the most common endings of Hayter's movies are nothing more than the following two: one is that he finally wins the beauty's heart or makes some great achievements to impress his boss; Described as a stupid person), did not notice his outstanding performance at all, but the beauty will be seen in the eyes after all, and this reward is enough.In any decision involving love and money, love always wins in the end.Taking winning the Beauty Flight as an example, the background describes a grand dinner honoring the flying heroine Wanda McNuel, and the waiter played by Hight is busy serving several tables of drunk guests, while successfully catching a jewelry thief. : When the cups were mixed, I saw him swiping the champagne bottle with his left hand to knock the thief unconscious, and at the same time serving snacks to the guests with his right hand; unexpectedly, the cork on the bottle suddenly popped open, and the head waiter was sprayed with top-quality Veuve Clicquot champagne on the spot. Te lost his job because of this.But it doesn't matter, the kind and righteous Wonda has witnessed Hayter's heroic deeds throughout; she secretly slipped her phone number into his hands.In the final scene of the film, they both get into her plane and fly into the clouds.

Hite's behavior is suspenseful, full of conflicting impulses and desires, and his character on the screen is too complicated for us to take it easy.He doesn't belong to any type, nor does he resemble any familiar established character. Every time the audience gradually feels that every action of his makes sense, there will always be another behavior that makes everyone confused and even at a loss.He's the perfect portrayal of a weary, high-spirited immigrant struggling to overcome the odds to carve out a place for himself in America's urban jungle.However, as long as any pretty girl smiles at him, it is enough to make him mess up and cause his original carefully arranged plan to collapse on the spot.Hayter's character in each film has a consistent personality, but it is completely impossible to find that he is referring to any established template, and the audience has no idea what he will come up with next.He has two different characteristics of roughness and gentleness; he pursues sensual pleasures but is hopelessly romantic; he behaves extremely rigorously, but may make earth-shattering moves at any time.He would give his last dime to a beggar in the street, not out of sympathy or pity, but because he thought it was the best thing to do.And whether it's hard work or the menial (and often unreasonable) jobs that his immediate superiors assign him to perform, Hayter always exudes a certain degree of detachment, as if at the same time mocking and congratulating himself on his situation.He seems to be always in a state of hesitation and see-saw, eager to get close to the present world, but at the same time watching from afar.In what may be his funniest book, The Good Hand, Haydt transforms conflicting perspectives into consistent chaos of unprecedented proportions.In this film, his ninth, Hite plays the stage director of a poor troupe.The film describes a group of people who came to Wishing Bone Falls to perform three days in a row. The French drama master Jean︱PierreSaint-Dillapier's luscious hilarious comedy is what's so submissive.Just as everyone was about to carry the prop box from the car into the theater, they suddenly found that all the props and outfits inside were missing.What should I do now?Without those things, the whole show would be a mess.An entire living room would have to be built on stage, not to mention several major props: a gun, a diamond necklace, and a roast suckling pig.The play was scheduled to start on time at eight o'clock the next night. If the whole stage could not be set up from scratch before then, the whole troupe would have to drink the northwest wind.The master of the theater troupe was a hollow carrot with a flowered silk scarf around his neck and a monocle in his left eye. When he saw that the entire carload of belongings had disappeared, he was so frightened that he passed out on the spot.So the hot potato fell into the hands of the second in command, Hite.Facing this innocent disaster, he first expressed his brief and intense thoughts with his beard, then calmed down to assess the situation, smoothed his white suit with both hands, and then started to solve the problem.In the next nine and a half minutes, the film is a concrete interpretation of the famous saying of the anarchist Proudhon: All belongings are either stolen or stolen.After a series of thrilling and exciting processes, Haight ran all over the town to steal supplies.I saw him intercepting the furniture delivery truck of the department store on the way, stole the tables, chairs, and lamps one by one, carried them to his truck, and carried them directly back to the theater; then he took silver tableware, wine glasses, and a whole set of porcelain from the hotel kitchen; Changing the restaurant purchase order, swaggering into the warehouse of the butcher shop, and carrying a pig away.Taking advantage of the gathering of the town's political and business celebrities, at the dinner party welcoming the theater troupe, he first snatched away the local sheriff's gun without anyone noticing, and later resorted to a beauty trick to fascinate a middle-aged rich woman. , and then used her skillful hands to untie the necklace around her neck.In this scene he is as cunning as he can be; and though his affectation is vile, and his hypocrisy even more heinous, he is also a lawbreaker and a self-sacrificing idealist.Although it is difficult to agree with his method, the audience secretly hope that he can succeed smoothly.The new play had to start as scheduled, so Haight must not be caught pickpocketing the necklace, or there would be no show.Just at this juncture, Height caught a glimpse of the most beautiful woman in the area (who happened to be the sheriff's daughter). The situation was already difficult enough, but now it was even more difficult.While he was busy courting the fat and rich woman with sweet words, he still didn't forget to sneak a few glances at the young beauty.Fortunately Hayter and his fat sheep were standing behind the half-open velvet curtain that hung over the entryway and separated the entrance hall from the banquet hall.Because Height was standing on the opposite side, he only needed to turn his head slightly to the left to see the other side of the living room; while the old woman was completely covered by the curtain, so even when Height and the beautiful woman were flirting with each other, the beautiful woman looked from head to toe. At the end, I couldn't see a woman behind the curtain.Therefore, Hite can play a two-pronged approach, manipulating false feelings, and using true love at the same time. Because Hite uses clever editing and camera techniques to handle this double-sided scene, the two sides complement each other and add joy, which is more interesting than each presented alone.This is the essence of Haydt's comedy. A single joke can never satisfy him. Once the situation is created, he must add more immediately, and then add more, even stacked to four layers of jokes.Hayter's way of formulating comedy is like composing music, bringing together individual scales and timbres; the more different voices interact, the more intricate and precarious the situation becomes.In the masterful home, Haight scratched the neck of the lady behind the curtain while playing peek-a-boo with another woman in the banquet hall.At this moment, a waiter walked by, tripped over the lady's skirt, and spilled the whole plate of drinks on her back. Heit finally seized the opportunity and took the diamond necklace calmly.He once again achieved the intended goal, although everything was wrong and right, all thanks to the unpredictable world.

The next night, the show not only started on time, but was a great success.The butcher, the owner of the department store, the sheriff and the fat woman all joined the audience. When all the actors were applauding and blowing kisses at the curtain call, a policeman put handcuffs on Height and sent him to prison. .But Hite was still beaming, without any regrets.He turned the tide, even if he was about to lose his freedom, he could not obliterate his personal victory.Those who are familiar with Hayter’s repeated difficulties in the filming process must be able to see that the master of the hand pointed out that he was subject to a contract with Seymour Hunt at the time, and the film was at the same time he worked for the Kaleidoscope film company. The portrayal of life for survival.When you hold a bad hand, the only way to turn it around is to break the rules of the game by asking, borrowing, and stealing; The battle has been fought.

The laid-back, reckless optimist turns somber in Nobody, Eleven.Hayter's contract was about to expire at the time, and he must have been well aware that his acting career would end with it.The sound era is approaching, which is not only an irreversible established fact, but also will destroy everything established in the past, and Haite's painstakingly studied and skilled skills in the past will not be able to survive.It wouldn't do him any good if he could tweak his ideas and try to adapt to a new film genre.Hite speaks with a strong Spanish accent. As long as he speaks on the big screen, American audiences will not be able to accept it.So finding no such person was deeply tainted with his melancholy mood at that time.Not only is the prospect of filming bleak and uncertain, but Hunter's financial situation is getting worse and worse, which makes the current situation always shrouded in shadow.Month after month, Kaleidoscope's operations kept showing bigger gaps.Even though the budget for filming has been continuously cut and the salaries of employees have been repeatedly delayed, the high interest on short-term loans still makes Hunter's money tight.He advanced the box office proceeds to the film studio, but he was repeatedly unable to pay back, and more and more theaters refused to show his films.At this time, Haidt's skills became more and more perfect, but unfortunately, fewer and fewer people were able to see his works.

Cha Wu was born under such predicaments that made things worse.The villain in the play is named C.Lester.Chase, once you get past the character's quirky, tongue-in-cheek name, it's not hard to see that Haight is secretly comparing him to Hunter.The homonym of the surname Hunt (hunt) is translated into French as chasse, and one of the s is removed, and it becomes chase; let’s look at the name Seymour further, and it is pronounced as West (see, see) Mo (more, many); and the abbreviation of Lester is Les (less, less), so, C. Lester sounds the same as seeless (to see less), which means short-sighted. In this way, its intentions are clearly revealed.Chase is the villain in all of Hayter's films, and he destroys Haydt by stripping him of his identity.But what he did was not to sneak a sniper in the back, nor to stab someone in the chest, but to coax the protagonist to drink some kind of magic potion to make Height disappear so that no one can see him.In fact, this is exactly the same way that Hunt killed Haight's acting career.He put Height on the big screen first, and then tried his best to make everyone unable to see him.In the film Nobody Knows, Height did not disappear, but when he drank the potion, no one could see his form.Audiences still see him on screen, but the other characters in the movie ignore him.We watched him jump up and down, flail his arms, and undress in public on a busy street without anyone noticing.Then he opened his mouth and yelled at someone, but he couldn't make any sound.He suddenly became flesh and blood, but he was like a ghost.He still exists in the world, but there is no place for him in the world anymore.He was clearly plotted against, but he was not shot to death, let alone killed by a knife, but just erased. For the first and only time in Nobody Found, Haight plays the rich man.In the film, he originally enjoyed the splendor and wealth that everyone envied: sitting on a beautiful wife and a pair of young daughters, countless servants and maidservants, and a mansion.At the beginning of the film, it describes Height having breakfast with his family, and some of the jokes revolve around spreading butter on toast and a wasp falling into a jam jar, etc., but this is just to present the protagonist's happy and harmonious home scene, Deliberately foreshadowing the various hardships he will encounter, without first taking a look at Hayter's almost perfect life (a perfect marriage, well-behaved children, and a family life brimming with happiness), the evil events that lie ahead will not be cause such a strong psychological impact.Sure enough, when Hayter met with misfortune, the audience was heartbroken.I saw him kissing his wife goodbye at the door, and then turned around and left the house, and fell into a nightmare that would never be restored. In the film, Hite plays the founder and president of a refreshing beverage company that produces soft drinks, and the business is booming.Chase was his vice president, advisor, and best friend.But Chase owed a lot of gambling debts outside, and a bunch of underground money houses sent people to collect the debts from time to time, threatening to harm him.When Hite entered the company early in the morning to say good morning to the employees, Chase was busy dealing with two vicious-looking guys in another office.He said: Don't worry, I promise to pay back the money this week, and the company will fall into my hands in a few days. The stock alone is worth several million.The two evil spirits agreed to give him a few more days of grace.Before they left, they did not forget to say harsh words: This is an ultimatum, if you refuse to pay, you will be thrown into the river to swim with the fish!Chase wiped off the cold sweat and let out a long breath.Then he took a letter out of the drawer; he looked at it for a while, and seemed quite satisfied.With a wicked smile, he folded the letter, put it in an envelope, and put it in his breast pocket.At this point, the audience knows that the conspiracy is about to unfold, but they still don't know how the plot will develop. Cut back to Height's office.Chase opened the door and walked in, holding a thermos in his hand, and asked Height if he wanted to try the new flavor he had just developed.Hite asked: What name are you going to take this time?Chase replied: Just call it a must drink.Heite nodded in agreement: very good, easy to remember and loud.Without a doubt, Heit asked Chase to pour him a glass full of unknown liquid.Height took the cup, and Chase's eyes flashed a gleam, waiting for Height's drug attack.Cut to medium close-up Hite raises glass, takes a sip, tastes, nose wrinkles, smells weird; eyes widen, beard quivering slightly.The whole tone was very funny, Chase urged him to drink more, he raised his glass and took a second sip.The evil intention must be drunk, and it will take effect soon.Hatter took another sip: smacked his lips, smiled at Chase, and shook his head, implying that the stuff didn't seem quite right.But Chase ignored the boss at all, just looked down at his watch, and at the same time stretched out five fingers of his right hand to start counting down.Height felt strange, and was about to ask him what was going on, when Chase had already counted from five to one, without any warning signs, and Height, who was sitting upright in the chair, suddenly leaned forward and hit his head on the table.The audience thought that he must have drunk the drug just now and was only temporarily unconscious, but then they saw Chase staring coldly at Height with a blank expression and gradually disappearing: first, the two arms became weaker and weaker, and then gradually disappeared. Disappeared from the screen; then the body, part by part becoming more and more blurred, and then even the head was invisible; finally, the whole person became completely transparent.Chase walked out of the office and closed the door; rubbing his hands in the hallway, thankful for the trick, leaning against the door and smiling.At this moment, the word card was cut, and it read: Farewell, Haight; it is an honor to meet you. Chase left the corridor and came out of the camera. The camera stayed in place and stared at the door for a second or two. Then, very slowly, he approached the keyhole on the door.This section is quite charming, full of suspense and sense of presence.The keyhole gets closer and closer, taking up more and more of the screen, and soon the interior is seen.After a while, we are inside, and in anticipation of an empty office, the audience is surprised to see what happens next: Hyatt is still lying unconscious on his desk, but he is physically present; Facing this sudden change, the audience can only conclude that the effect of the medicine must have faded.We have seen Height disappear from the screen with our own eyes, and now we can see him again, which shows that the potion of invisibility he just drank is not as strong as we thought. Hite slowly came to life; we were all relieved to see him alive again.Everyone thought that the order of the universe had returned to normal, and next, Haight would take revenge and expose Chase's conspiracy.In the next 20 seconds or so, Hite once again used his sophisticated and pungent comedy skills.He seemed to be hungover and trying to pull himself together. He stood up from the chair, became dizzy and couldn't distinguish things, and then turned around the room in a state of drunkenness.The audience was all amused by him.Seeing is believing, and since they could see his funny appearance, everyone was sure that Hayter had fully recovered, so they enjoyed his funny performances with legs bent, dizzy, and staggering.At this moment, Heite walked to the mirror hanging on the wall, and the plot was completely reversed again.He wanted to comb his messy hair and crooked tie in front of the mirror, but when he looked into the flat and bright oval mirror, his face did not appear in it.He has no reflection.He touched himself to make sure he was physically present, but when he looked in the mirror again, he still couldn't see himself.Heite was dumbfounded on the spot, but he didn't panic. He just thought: Maybe there is something wrong with the mirror. He stepped out of the office and saw a secretary passing by the corridor holding a stack of documents.Hatter smiled and waved at her politely, but she didn't even look at him.Hatter shrugged.At this time, two young employees came from the other side. This time, Heite first made faces, yelled at them, and stuck out his tongue desperately.One of the employees pointed to the door of Height's office and asked the other: Is the boss here?Another said: I don't know, I didn't see him.When he said those words, of course, Haight was standing directly in front of him, face to face not six inches apart. The scene cuts to the living room of the Haights.His wife was pacing up and down, wringing her hands, clutching her handkerchief and bowing her head sobbing from time to time.Apparently she had learned of Height's disappearance.At this time Chase came in, the hateful and despicable C.Lester.chase.He pretended to condolences to the poor young woman, patting her on the shoulder for a while, shaking his head and sighing for a while to pretend to be sorry.Then he took the mysterious letter from his coat pocket and handed it to her, deceiving her that he had found it on Hayter's desk this morning.The camera cuts to a close-up of the entire page of letter paper, which reads: Dear baby, please forgive me for leaving without saying goodbye.The doctor said I was suffering from an incurable disease and had only two months to live.In order to prevent you from mourning for a long time, I decided to kill myself immediately.There is no need to worry about everything in the company, and it is absolutely safe for Chase to take over.Love you always, enter Haight.It didn't take long for Chase's big lie and fake letter to work.In the next shot, Height's wife let go of her hand, and the letter paper slowly fell down.It was like a bolt from the blue, the whole world was turned upside down, everything fell apart.When the letter fell to the ground, she also fainted in the next second. The camera follows her collapse, and then her unconscious body dissolves into a long shot of Height, who has left his office and wandered aimlessly in the streets, trying to make sense of what happened to him. A horrible strange thing.In order to prove whether he was really hopeless, he stood at a crowded intersection and took off his clothes one by one until only his underwear remained.He did a short dance, walked a few steps with his hands upside down, and took off his pants and exposed his buttocks to the crowd, but no one looked at him from the beginning to the end, so he had to put on his clothes dejectedly and leave sadly.Facing the established facts, instead of struggling to fight meaninglessly, he might as well understand the current situation, and he didn't spend any effort to restore himself to normal (such as asking Chase to question his guilt, or struggling to find the antidote to break the invisible magic power), Heite Instead, he began to conduct all kinds of weird and impulsive experiments, from which he explored what situation he was facing and the results of the changes.Inadvertently, but accidentally, with a light wave of his hand, he knocked off a passerby's hat.It can be like this, Hitt seemed to suddenly realize.It turns out that although his appearance is invisible to everyone around him, his body can still interact with the world.At this time, another passerby came to face him, and Heite tripped him with his foot.That's right, it was exactly as he expected, but you might as well try a few more times.Starting with the simple ones, he lifted the long skirt of a lady next to him and looked at her beautiful legs; he secretly kissed another woman on the cheek, and then another person on the mouth; he crossed out the word stop on the traffic sign , a motorcycle crashed into a tram.He sneaked up behind the two men, first patted their shoulders, and then kicked their shins each, causing the two men to quarrel.Those pranks are a bit excessive and naive, but they are also very entertaining, and with experiment after experiment, the effect of invisibility is more and more certain.Then Haight picked up a baseball that had rolled out of nowhere on the sidewalk, and he made another major discovery.Once the invisible man touches something, that thing disappears with it.It doesn't float in the air, but becomes invisible, and is sucked into the void that also surrounds the invisible man. Once it enters this space, it disappears.The little boy who was looking for the ball ran over. The ball should have fallen near here. According to the laws of physics, the ball must be here, but it just didn't.The little boy was puzzled.Haight saw it, put the ball on the ground, and backed away.The little boy looked down, hey, the ball came out of nowhere, and it was at his feet.how so?The scene ends with a close-up of the boy's surprised expression. Haight turned the corner and walked down the street.He was confronted with a crime that made him very angry: a fat and well-dressed gentleman reached out and stole the "Morning Chronicle" from the blind newsboy's stand.The man didn't have any coins on him, and because he was in a hurry and didn't bother to spend the time to find change, he just took a newspaper and left.In a fit of rage, Hite followed behind, waiting for the man to stop at the intersection waiting for the red light, and took his wallet away with his hands.This bridge is both smiling and disturbing.The audience, of course, had absolutely no sympathy for the fat gentleman, but they were astonished to see Hayter happily doing justice for the heavens.Although he later returned to the newsstand and handed over the money to the boy, we were still not completely relieved.In the scene where Hite steals the wallet, at first glance we thought he would keep it for himself, and in that brief, dark moment, it was assumed that Hite did the pickpocketing not in the first place for justice, but because he knew he would never miss it.His subsequent generosity to the blind newsboy was only in hindsight.Now he has no shackles and no rules to follow.He can use it for good, but he can also do evil, but at this moment we don't know what choice he will make. Shot back indoors, Mrs Haight has been taken to bed. In the office, Chase opened the safe and took out a large stack of stocks.An sat down at the table and began to count. Meanwhile, Haight was about to commit to his first big case.The protagonist, invisible and deceitful, walks into a jewelry store and sweeps away the jewelry in a glass display case in front of five or six people who can't see him. He slowly grabs handfuls of gold watches , Necklaces, rings, and stuff them in their pockets in their spare time.He looked like he was just having fun, but also seemed to have other goals.Throughout the theft, there was always a shallow but visible smile on the corner of his mouth, showing that it was a deliberate and cold-blooded crime.Watching this scene before my eyes, I had no choice but to assume that Hayter had fallen for himself. He walked out of the jewelry store.But unexpectedly, he went straight to a trash can first, reached in and pulled out a bag of things.那紙袋顯然是他事先藏的，雖然裝得滿滿，但我們看不出裡頭是什麼。接著，海特又回到珠寶店門前，打開紙袋，把裡頭的粉末灑在人行道上，觀眾全被搞迷糊了。那可能是土屑？還是煤灰？或是火藥？反正不管是什麼，那樣灑在地上實在說不通。過了一會兒，珠寶店門口到人行道邊逐漸形成一道細細的黑線。海特鋪完人行道，接著大膽穿越馬路。只見他一下躲汽車、一下子避開電車，跳過來、蹦過去，一邊不停掏出紙袋內的東西繼續灑，愈看愈像哪個不曉得從哪兒冒出來的神經農夫在埋頭播種。那道黑線已橫過大馬路；海特跨上對街的人行道，繼續灑粉末，我們這才明白：原來，海特利用黑色粉末鋪出一道軌跡。但我們仍不知道那條軌跡通往何處，只見他一路走到一幢大樓入口、開門進去，我們不免懷疑他是不是又在耍大家。門在他身後關上，鏡頭拉遠，海特剛走進的那幢大樓逐漸入鏡：正是爽滋滋飲料公司總部。 劇情自此逐漸緊湊。噼哩啪啦一連串過場戲交代情節轉折，珠寶店老闆發覺遭竊，連忙衝到店外、揮手召來一名警察，接著，慌慌張張、急急忙忙說明來龍去脈。警察低頭一看，發現地上那道黑色軌跡，然後眼光順著那道黑線望向對街的爽滋滋飲料公司大樓。他開口道：看來是條線索。珠寶店老闆說：咱們跟去瞧瞧。於是兩人朝大樓方向走去。 畫面切回海特。他正慢慢穿過走廊，小心翼翼灑上最後一段黑色粉末。最後停在一間辦公室門外，當他將最後一些土屑輕輕灑在門檻上，鏡頭上搖，畫面赫然出現門上的幾行字： 副總裁Ｃ．列斯特．柴斯。此時，門開了，柴斯正走出來，海特還彎身蹲在門口。眼看著兩人就要絆在一起，海特在最後一刻趕緊跳開然後，趁門正要閉上前溜進去，像鴨子一樣搖搖擺擺走進柴斯的辦公室。正當這段通俗劇逐步推向高潮，海特仍繼續堆疊更多笑料。他一進入辦公室，看見柴斯辦公桌上攤了滿桌子股票。他一一收拾、整理成一大疊，然後放進自己的外套口袋。接著，他快手快腳、俐落地從側面口袋掏出一件件珠寶首飾，漸漸在柴斯的記事簿上堆成一座贓物小山。海特剛把最後一枚戒指放到最高點，柴斯回來了，搓手竊喜，狀似洋洋自得。海特後退幾步，大功告成，接下來就等著看仇人的下場了。 之後整個過程一再令觀眾驚駭不解，不明白正義究竟是獲得伸張抑或蕩然無存。剛開始，柴斯只顧著那座珠寶小山，一時沒注意桌上的股票沒了。等他挖開金山銀山，發現股票不翼而飛，卻為時已晚。警察與珠寶店老闆破門而入。人贓俱獲、當場破案、現行犯就逮。柴斯百口莫辯，線索明明白白連到他門口，而且他手裡還拿著贓物不放。想當然，他奮力拒捕、企圖開窗脫逃、朝圍捕者丟擲爽滋滋汽水瓶，經過一陣扭打，終於不敵警棍、警刀夾擊，總算俯首就範。海特冷眼旁觀這一切。即使雙手上了手銬的柴斯被押走，海特也未因勝利而興高采烈。雖然他的計謀一一實現，但對他又有何用？眼看這天就要結束，他仍未恢復原形。 他又走出大樓，在街上穿行。通衢大道杳無人煙，整座城市彷彿只剩海特一人。先前周圍那些熙攘人潮、車水馬龍都到哪裡去了？那些汽車和電車呢？人行道上那些摩肩接踵的行人呢？我們當下頓時狐疑，難道情況顛倒過來了？會不會是海特變正常，而其他人全變隱形了？這時，一輛卡車不知從哪兒快速駛來，輾過一處水漥。人行道上濺起一大片水花，灑向四面八方。海特也遭了殃，可是鏡頭轉回，我們看到災情，他的西裝外套竟然毫無半點水漬。原本應該是逗趣的橋段，但是不然，因為海特刻意演得一點兒也不好笑（一臉哀戚、定定盯著外套，看到自己身上完全沒濺到半滴髒水，眼中滿溢失望之情），這簡單的一幕扭轉了影片的調性。夜幕低垂，他回到自己的家。他進了家門，踩著樓梯上了二樓，進入孩子的房間。小女孩與小男孩各據一床，皆已入睡。他坐在小女孩床畔，端詳她的臉龐，然後伸手想撫摸她的頭髮。就在快碰到孩子時，他猛然想到自己或許會吵醒她，便趕緊縮手。要是她在黑暗中醒來，卻不見半個人在房內，一定會嚇壞了。海特以內斂質樸的手法演出這段感人的戲。他失去了碰觸自己小女兒的權利；眼看他遲疑、掙扎，最後不得不忍痛縮手，我們至此全然體會一路以來，加諸在他身上的魔咒對他的深刻打擊。就這麼一個簡簡單單的手勢手僵在半空中，張開的手掌離小女孩的頭僅僅不到一吋我們完全了解海特淪落成無物了。 他彷彿幽靈般起身離開孩子的房間。他來到走廊盡頭，開了另一扇房門，走了進去。那是他的臥房，他的妻子、他的心肝寶貝，就躺在床上。海特停下來，她輾轉反側、翻來覆去、踢掉被單，似乎深陷恐怖的夢境。海特慢慢靠近床鋪，小心翼翼為她拉好被子、拍鬆枕頭，然後擰熄床頭的檯燈。她逐漸不再舞動四肢，不一會兒便慢慢沉入平穩安寧的夢鄉。 海特後退幾步，朝她送了一記飛吻，然後坐在離床腳不遠的椅子上，彷彿打算待在那兒過夜，像某個善良的幽靈，一直守護著她。儘管不能碰她，也無法對她說話，但他仍能守護她，讓她為自己帶來力量。可是就算隱形人也會疲倦。雖然看不見，還是像別人一樣有一副身體、像別人一樣，累了就得睡覺。海特的眼皮愈來愈沉，兩眼使勁硬撐著，卻頻頻闔上，只好一下睜開、一下閉上，儘管三番兩次試圖振作，還是敵不過睡魔。不一會兒工夫，他屈服了。 畫面漸淡成一片黑幕，當銀幕淡入重新亮起時已是早晨，陽光穿過窗簾流洩到室內，鏡頭切入，海特的妻子仍睡在床上。然後切到睡在椅子上的海特。他整個身體蜷成十分不自然的姿態，敞開四肢、每個關節都扭成十分怪異的角度，簡直成了一串大麻花，我們萬萬沒料到會突然冒出這麼一個可笑的畫面，不禁噗哧大笑，這麼一笑，片子的調性又起了變化。心肝寶貝先醒來，她睜開雙眼，從床上坐起，我們從她的臉部得知一切，只見她的表情從喜悅急速轉為難以置信、又立刻轉成審慎的樂觀。她急急忙忙跳下床，奔向海特，伸手撫摸他的臉（他的頭往後仰、整顆腦袋掛在扶手之外），海特像是突然遭到電擊，整個身體從椅子上蹦起來，一陣手舞足蹈後終於直挺挺坐得端端正正。接著，他睜開眼，彷彿忘了自己是隱形人，不由自主地對妻子露出微笑。兩人湊近打算接吻，可是當他們嘴唇即將貼近時，他又滿臉狐疑抬起頭。how so?魔咒失靈了嗎？或者，自己只是在做夢？他摸摸自己的臉，又拍拍胸膛，然後望著妻子的雙眼。他問她：妳看得見我？她回答：當然，我看得見你。她兩眼盈滿淚水，撲向前親吻他。但海特仍不放心。他從椅子上站起來，走到牆邊那面大鏡子前。證據就反映在鏡子裡，假如他能看見自己的倒影，那就確定苦難已經結束。他恢復正常是必然的結局，但整幕戲最美妙的部分在於海特緩慢地詮釋自我的轉變。剛開始那一兩秒，他的表情沒有任何改變，當他慢慢瞄到裡頭那個人也睜大雙眼從鏡中回望自己，他彷彿盯著一個陌生人、就像看到一張從未見過的臉。然後，鏡頭推進，漸漸變成特寫，海特慢慢咧嘴微笑。那微微一笑饒富深意，不僅傳達出他重新又找回自己，他看向鏡中的那個人也不再是過去那個海特，而是個全新的人，不管跟以前那人長得有多像，他都已經從裡到外，徹底脫胎換骨，變成另一個全新的人。看著鏡子，他的笑容愈來愈清晰、愈來愈燦爛、愈來愈滿意裡頭那張臉。畫面出現一個圓圈，圈圈愈縮愈小，縮到我們只看見一張微笑的嘴，嘴上有道細細的短髭，短髭扭動幾下，圓圈繼續縮小、再縮小，最後完全縮到不見，全片結束。 在現實中，海特個人的演藝事業亦隨著那個微笑宣告結束。囿於合約，他後來又製作出一部影片，但那部贏雙倍或全輸光並不算一部新作品。萬花筒影業公司當時已瀕臨倒閉，根本沒有資金可供攝製任何正規影片。於是，海特挑揀以往片子淘汰不用的零星片段加以拼湊，重組成一套喜劇段子集錦。廢物利用的成果確實頗具巧思，但該片除了顯露海特的剪接技術十分高明之外，毫無任何新意可言。若要公正評量海特的作品，我們必須把查無此人當作他真正的最後一部影片。該片暗藏海特本人失蹤的密碼，撇開該片曖昧混沌、多所隱晦，再加上其中種種並未正面解答的道德質疑不提，該片的真正意圖，可說是婉轉講述海特自身的苦悶。海特在尋找一個向世人以及這個世界訣別的方式，為了這麼做，他必須讓自己從自己眼中消失。他隱形了，最後當魔咒解除，他又能重新看見自己時，卻認不出自己的臉。當他注視自己的同時，我們也注視著他，在如此懾人心魄的雙重諦觀下，我們目睹他坦然迎向自己的毀滅。他為下一部影片選定的片名贏雙倍或全輸光，與那十八分鐘充斥跌撞跑跳、插科打諢的搞笑段子大雜燴完全扯不上任何關係。贏雙倍或全輸光這片名其實是回頭暗指查無此人片尾對鏡自照那場戲。當海特展顏露出非比尋常的笑容，剎那間我們似乎得以瞥見他心底的全新人生。藉由那個微笑，他讓自己獲得重生，但已不再是原來那個人，他不再是昔日逗大家、娛樂世人的那個海特曼恩。我們目睹他轉變成另一個大家都不認得的人，在世人能夠接納這新的海特之前，他就不見了。逐漸縮小的圓圈圍住他的臉，最後將他吞沒在黑暗中。過了一會兒，銀幕上打出他的其他任何影片都不曾出現過的兩個字：結束。這就是世人最後一次見到海特曼恩。