Charlie Chaplin

Charles “Charlie” Ng was born on December 24, 1960 in Hong Kong, China. In his early life, he was brutally abused by his father. He came from a wealthy family, but was described as a disturbed teenager. His first criminal offence was when he was arrested for shoplifting. This happened when he was fifteen and his father sent him to boarding school but, he was sent back to Hong Kong because he was caught stealing. When he was eighteen, he moved to America to attend Notre Dame de Namur University…

of this speech from the movie “The Great Dictator”, is that we can achieve peace, equality, and happiness if we put aside our differences and not think of each other as “black” or “white”, or as “Christian” or “Muslim”, but as fellow human beings. Charlie Chaplin’s tone changes throughout the poem. He starts out with a calm and peaceful tone. But, as the speech goes on, and as his words become more and more inspiring, his tone becomes stronger and more direct. He uses metaphors and similes to…

Despite America’s desire to remain out of the war (Leuchtenburg 12), German attacks on U.S. ships in both wars forced the hands of the Presidents. Charlie Chaplin’s, Shoulder Arms (1918), came out at the end of WWI and made the U.S. public aware of the conditions of war and the unrealistic fantasies about the heroism of fighting in the war. Chaplin plays an uncoordinated soldier who faced obstacle after obstacle in the trenches of the Western Front and in the end, he realized it was all for…

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson The dancer I chose is Bill Robinson. He is also known as Bojangles, which is his nickname. However, his original birth name was Luther. Bill was born in Richmond, Virginia, on May 25, 1878. He lived his life as an actor and tap dancer until he died in New York in 1949, from heart disease. Bill began his dancing career at the age of 7, when he quit school so he could become a dancer. This must have worked out for him, because by the end of his life he…

objectivity and relativist film histories are welcomed as points of discourse, and resolving the tension through discursive practices allows film history to mediate historiographical knowledge with the audience. This mediating function is assumed by Chaplin, given the way that it uses both objective histories and relativist histories of its subject as a discursive practice in the form of an autobiographical…

in particular, and its endeavors helped so much in the Industrial Revolution. The movie Modern times by Charlie Chaplin is a story of industry which portrays the influence of the Industrial Revolution on people.…

In Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin criticizes the effects of capitalism on the working class. Through a different lens, one can view this as a contemporary critique of control freaks. He uses parody and exaggeration to strengthen his assertion. Chaplin uses parody to strengthen his assertion by making a mockery of how human beings are forced to fit around and within the institution in modern society particularly in relation to the “American Dream” and “the pursuit of happiness”. The theme of…

Chaplin’s Modern Times criticizes the growing of industrialization before the Great Depression. Charlie Chaplin utilizes humor based on exaggeration to highlight negative aspects between man and machine. Work starts inside a steel factory, under the supervision of the top manager, who observes the entire operation on big television screens. The workers work in an assembly line. Charlie Chaplin’s character the Tramp, tightens screws on boards that pass by. His repetitive movements are so…

Slapstick comedy, That may bring to mind the Three Stooges or Charlie Chaplin. Slapstick is often thought of as a low humor style of comedy filled with farce and a touch of animated violence. And yet, that doesn't tell the whole story and slapstick is much older than you might think. Slapstick comedy is primarily a physical kind of comedy based around pratfalls and mild comic violence, smacks in the head, pokes in the eyes, people falling down, etc. While it is often thought of as low comedy,…

As we get older, we confine, we constrict, and we counteract the world around. If placed in a nerve racking situation, we strive to make it positive, it is what we do. There was quote I have always enjoyed from the prominently silence actor, Charlie Chaplin in the 1940s film, The Great Dictator, he says, “...we think too much, and feel too little.” I like to think of myself as someone who always wants to experience life, both the ups and the downs. It's a little difficult to cram 19 years of…