Cepillín never assumed himself as a mime or comedian. The word clown summed up for him, all those concepts
Teresa Gil
Heinrich Böll won the Nobel Prize in 1972, partly for Opinions of a Clown, although the Catholic Church does not seem to like it very much. Above all for the opinions of the great German writer, for the omission of that institution on the Hitler murderous war. Clowns manifest themselves in the sphere of emotions, that is why talking about Hans, that Böll clown who was one of the great best sellers of the sixties, is updated with the death of Ricardo González Gutiérrez, Cepillín, the clown who It was on a date that distracted another central event, Women’s Day and the lashes of hatred from women filled with revenge.
The clown who piping his voice, although he was from Monterrey, died in Naucalpan on March 8 when the war sounds of some feminists prepared hammers, sticks, pieces of pipe, Molotov cocktails, to confront a power whose guilt is diluted in expletives because he is oblivious to what happened in the last decades. There was regret in many places for the death of Cepillín and the old stories that linked him to not very recommended contractors and his long struggle in the circus of life, appeared in the minds of many adults and children who were and that piping voice that was enhanced in his naive jokes and in the songs he threw to the screen and to the wind.
In the forest of China
a china got lost
and how I was lost
we both meet
THE CLOWN AS A PARADIGM OF MELANCHOLÍA, COVERED IN THE LAUGH
Gloria Pérez Mendoza, the excellent Mexican reporter, correspondent for various media, including AP, told me about that interview she did with Cepillín in the beginning when she was also an inexperienced reporter. And the questions he asked about his decision to be a clown, being supported by powerful groups like Televisa and if he really made people laugh or was a bland clown. Ricardo at that time, a young and handsome man, who had abandoned his job as a dentist where he created his character by painting his face so as not to scare the children, he responded with all grace as a pleasant, intelligent young man who smiled at Gloria’s questions. . Very well posed interview that Rumbo a Mexican newspaper published in the seventies. The unique thing about this clown who became so famous is that he never assumed those titles of mime or comedian as what many believed to be, when the term clown fills all the concepts. As comedians, from Mauricio Garcés, Tintán the best of all, Cantinflas, in France Fernandel, in the United States the Marx brothers, in England and on a universal level, as mime, Charles Chaplin, have all of them sung Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci? Or declaimed Laugh crying, the story of Garrick, by Juan de Dios Peza?
IN THE COSTUME OF CERTAIN CLOWNS, TREASURE IS HIDDEN
Hoods, like altered faces, which could be considered costumes, always serve a purpose. And we saw it with the hooded women from the Zocalo. The Beast wore masks because his face was deformed; clowns who paint their faces do so to enliven the view and enhance children’s fantasy or to create a physiognomy different from their own. There are many little clowns and they are seen at children’s parties, in parks, on the streets, juggling and playing various games. There are clowns who by changing their faces express the internal disguise in meetings or in daily life, doing ridiculous antics with formal and demagogic faces. But there is no worse clown than the one who betrays with his mask, the guest who has innocently gone on a date. This is the case of Brozo, Víctor Trujillo, who threw his guest René Bejarano to the slaughterhouse of public opinion and to jail. Thousands of viewers saw it and learned about it and later it has been revealed that he did so by order of his constituents Salinas, Fox, Chief Diego and others like that, in that permanent race they have against AMLO. Brozo appears from time to time on the scene, to reprise his role as an employee. That story was followed by Mrs. Rosario Robles betraying her origins to end up in what she is now, a comedy character. Yes, like some characters in the Italian Comedy, complaining, tearful, imploring types, a victim who demands, while spending the people’s money on expensive lawyers. And all this last thing is not clown.
HIS CRITICAL POSTURE, HIS MANY WORKS AND A CLOWN, GAVE BÖLL THE NOBEL
Heinrich Böll was born in Cologne in 1917 and went through Hitler’s entire Nazi period, with a critical position, in which he included the Catholic Church itself, a religion that they say he professed, although in the 1963 work Opinions of a Clown (Barral ediciones 1972, Barcelona) denies on many occasions that he is Catholic. In the years in which he wrote his work, Catholicism was the subject of serious discussions because it implied a conservative stance in accordance with the time. That changed in the 1970s when Liberation Theology appeared on the scene. Böll’s work is a lot. Famous are The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Group Portrait with Lady, House Without a Master and Irish Diary, among others. He even has essays on Latin America, on the Nicaraguan Revolution and other movements that emerged and that he supported. In the 1990s, a re-enactment of the play written by the playwright Luis Mario Moncada was staged at the Juárez theater. The same creator played the role of the clown Hans. From my book What was not said (2015 page 25), I recover the account of the semblance that I made of Cepillín.
GRIN
His life was not over but his profession was. As he shuffled toward his room, a little justification encouraged him. Athletes withdraw because they lose faculties; surgeons because their hands tremble; the prima donas because they lose their voice; the divas because their beauty ends; the poets because the muses moved away; the… etcetera, etcetera. Desperately, he threw paintings, tore wigs, tore Harlequin’s baggy suits, and smashed the round noses that accompanied him. He had read that the bitter grin was a symptom of age, and what was he to do with that grim grin that would steal his wide, malicious grin? I couldn’t make you laugh. He said goodbye, then, to Cepillín.
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