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1896 (Finland) more
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This may well be the first sight gag in cinema history, and it's certainly one of the most famous -... more | add synopsis
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Slapstick, 1890s style more (12 total)

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Also Known As:
Le jardinier (France) (première title)
Le jardinier et le petit espiègle
Tables Turned on the Gardener (USA)
The Sprayer Sprayed
The Sprinkler Sprinkled (USA)
The Waterer Watered (USA)
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1 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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First fully staged fictional film projected in public. more
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Featured in Historia del cine: Epoca muda (1983) (V) more

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7 out of 12 people found the following review useful.
Slapstick, 1890s style, 9 July 1999
Author: Laurence Price (dmitri@vossnet.co.uk) from London, UK

L'Arroseur Arrosé is a cry from the depths of the proletariat for social emancipation, whereby the disenfranchised masses represented in a life-justifying performance as the Boy can only find justice through subversion and revolution. Indeed, the conclusion of this epic drama can been seen as a confirmation of the inherent violence in a Hegelian dialectic of class conflict; the chilling figure of the Gardener (a possible reference to ecclesiastical authority?) viciously suppresses the rights of the Boy to self-expression. The perennial nature of this conflict is undermined when both parties rush out of the "garden"; no resolution is possible except mutual annihilation.

Or, it could be a piece of light-hearted fun, as Lumiere recognised that the novelty of seeing pictures of factory workers and trains moving was wearing thin, and needed to be backed up with plot. It'll raise a smile for a few seconds, as a memento of an age with less demanding audiences.

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