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• W2513361437 abstract "Some of Beckett's early plays, like his mime Act Without Words (1956), were influenced by the silent screen comedies of Keaton, among others (Knowlson, Damned 377). A few years earlier, after seeing Keaton perform on stage in Paris (352), Beckett and Roger Blin (who staged the first production of Waiting for Godot, in Paris in 1953), discussed casting Keaton as Gogo and Chaplin as Didi (Croall 19, 55). And for Godot's first American production, Keaton was considered for Didi and Marlon Brando for Gogo. Keaton was, in fact, offered the role of Lucky in that production but rejected it because he couldn't understand it and considered it a waste of his time (Bair 571). Curiously, however, Keaton had already played opposite an absent Godot, or Godeau, in a film called The Lovable Cheat, made in 1949, the same year in which Beckett first showed Godot to Roger Blin. The film was based on Mercadet Le Faiseur (1851), a play by Balzac, whose work Beckett studied both at Trinity College and afterward (Knowlson 70). 2 Knowlson suggests that Beckett may have read Balzac only so that he could reject his entire approach as a novelist (Damned 70), but Beckett knew Balzac's writings well enough to lecture on them during his brief teaching stint at Trinity.3 Despite their bourgeois settings and circumstances, both Balzac's play and The Lovable Cheat bear a striking resemblance to Waiting for Godot. In the movie, Keaton plays one of the creditors of the titular character, Mercadet, a Pozzo-like figure given to self-dramatization. A speculator who is harassed by creditors he has cheated and continues to swindle even as they dun him for repayment, Mercadet insists throughout the film that his long-absent business partner, a man named Godeau, will soon return from America with sufficient funds to pay off all his debts. Mercadet requires two things of his creditors: faith that what seems impossible will come to pass and the patience to wait for it. Keaton's character is the creditor most disbelieving of Mercadet's promises and most insistent on his being imprisoned for debt and fraud. Yet to the amazement of the creditors (and indeed of Mercadet himself), Godeau's return with sufficient funds to save Mercadet is announced near the end of the movie, which reduces the Keaton character to the feeble exit line, I never doubted you. But the movie's Godeau remains a mysterious figure because, inexplicably, he never actually appears on camera (although we're told that he's in the next room, and hence just off camera) - and so, in a sense, he both does and does not return.4" @default.
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