Charlie Chaplin

This was Chaplin’s first talking film. Chaplin poked fun at Hitler, and at the time this was considered to be sensitive to many viewers. Unlike most of his films, this one was an all sound picture, however there were still many acts of physical comedy. Some critics only prefer Chaplin’s physical comedy, however in my opinion every form of comedy from Chaplin is amazing. The beginning of this film shows Chaplin as a barber who is not familiar with the new rules of dictator…

The 1920’s saw a big boom in the entertainment industry. After World War 1 many Americans had money to blow and turned to entertainment as a way to spend their extra cash. Music, movies, radios, plays, and sports all became popular forms of mass entertainment during this time period. Music was a big part of the Roaring Twenties. In fact, the Roaring Twenties is also known as the Jazz Age. Jazz became big after New Orleans closed its ports and most musicians had to move north to find work.…

suicide after she was ordered to leave. Modern Times, by Charlie Chaplin, is set in the 1930s during the time of a depression and follows the story of Charlie (as himself) and his precarious…

to compete with other film makers, but to stand up and speak without fear to the cruel and inhumane actions that was going on at that time. The world was suffering changes and with this society and eventually film makers. People want to see Charlie Chaplin a good guy with his little mustache imitating and mocking the bad dictator with the same shape of mustache. During the Great Dictator, other films were made like Casa Blanca, Pinocchio, it’s a wonderful life and Fantasia. This film reached…

comedic filter are lost in the end of the movie, falling aside to prepare for Chaplin’s true message of the film. Chaplin seemed to recognize the futility of conflicts as those mentioned in the prior works: of warfare and the reasoning it stems from. The final speech, of which it is dubious as to whether it is the Barber speaking or if the movie had already ended to give room for Chaplin himself, is one that addresses humanity and the path it has so harshly fallen…

Charlie Chaplin has been known for being a self made mogul in the past. Typically when someone mentions his name some may tend to only think of the context of his wonderful films and also the backlash or appraisal that those films may have gotten. However, how many people really understand how this man operates as he is directing his own films? How dedicated is he as he is directing each portion of the film? There is a reason why his films are thought to be so successful. Are they successful…

the silent era knew how to express their feelings through gestures and facial expressions in such a manner that their feelings could be easily communicated to the audience. Indeed, the international success of such silent cinema performers as Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo attests to the universal appeal of film acting. As expressed by these performers, such basic human emotions as sadness or happiness…

an Italian named Vincenzo Peruggia, reacting to the racism and marginalization he experienced as a working class immigrant, famously stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Twenty-five years later, a fictional echo of Peruggia’s struggle appeared in Charlie Chaplin’s classic film, Modern Times. Each of these moments, real or fictional, forced the world to reckon with the failure of utopia. Ida B. Wells and Frederick Douglass, along with Chaplin’s protagonist, The Tramp, and the larger-than-life…

A major way to Chaplin creates humor in City Lights is through the twitchy movements of the Tramp and, while that might have suited the humor of the 1930’s, that childish comedy has not transcended through the centuries and creates a chaotic, childish atmosphere in many…

What is humor? Humor can be someone or something that is funny. What is funny can depend on someone’s sense of humor. Humor can be offensive at times by hurting one’s religion, race, sex, and other things to laugh at the expense of others. Despite that there are many television programs and cartoons that make funs of people being in a certain kind of group. Has society fallen so low that we like to hurt each other’s feelings? Bottom line is there are many different types of humor like flavors of…