It's funny.
Albert Einstein sympathizes with Charlie Chaplin without having seen his films.
He is more fascinated by the particles of light emitted by projectors in dark rooms.
There is one exception: City Lights, which the director invites him to preview in Los Angeles on January 30, 1931. A black and white photograph projected above the stage of the Théâtre Montparnasse shows the two tall men side by side in bow ties.
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The exchange is famous: “
What I admire most in your art, observes Albert Einstein, is its universality.
You don't say a word, and yet the whole world understands you.
Chaplin replies: "
It's true, but your glory is greater still: the whole world admires you, while no one understands you."
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The novelist Olivier Dutaillis recounts the interviews between the two legendary figures in a play soberly titled Albert et Charlie.
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