Hannah Chaplin

1928 was the Golden Age of Film comedy and the silent film medium extend this to its maximum. Exaggerated actions and visual gags with occasional intertitles explaining the situation became the centerpiece of attraction and entertainment. Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were two legendary comedy filmmakers emerging from this era. Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights was a combination of Chaplin’s skills from previous movies. In this movie, he employs purely innocent jokes under the famous Tramp…

This paper shall compare and contrast between ``Our Hospitality film by Buster Keaton and The Gold Rush by Charles Chaplin’’. The Gold Rush is a comedy film that narrates fun and complicated experiences of Charles Chaplin who was in search of gold which he believed was to free him from poverty. It was an insecure mission though he was determined to accomplish it; he starved for a long period until he decided to feed on his shoes and other times he thought his friend was big chicken. The main…

Charlie Chaplin was a British actor and comedian, who was a distinguished star in the 20th century’s silent- film era. In fact, many stars in this area originated from a working-class background. He was raised in a poor neighborhood by river warehouses, located in Westminster. Therefore, Chaplin emerged creating films that pertained with the working class perspective. This enabled the audiences of the urban life to relate with the film (Ross 44). Both of his had been music hall entertainers,…

With the un-denying romance and comical atmosphere, “City Lights” is sure to keep you entertained until the very end. “City Lights” was directed by Charlie Chaplin and was released in 1931 and is said to be one of the, if not the greatest, romances of all time. Thought at its release to be “dead” because of talking movies starting up, Chaplin proved critics wrong, and made a never-ending name for himself in film history. As for formal aspects of this film, I would give it four out of five…

(American) Dream Through semiotics and representation, Ellen Lauren relates the illusion of the American Dream to the conflict between reality and dreams in her 1930s interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the image of Puck as Charlie Chaplin. In Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices, by Stuart Hall, Hall explains that when a person sees an object, they can connect meaning to that object. They see the object, connect it to a concept in their mind, and…

Charlie Chaplin is the most well-known name in the history of silent film. He gave much comic relief to audiences during the Great Depression. His movies made people laugh like they could not in their stressful, everyday lives. The humor that Chaplin used to make people enjoy life came from the painful experiences he had growing up. His childhood had a large impact on how he saw the world and resulted in how he showed the world that view. Chaplin’s childhood came with much heartbreak, but out of…

promote propaganda. Chaplin is an obvious example of a man who fully understood Benjamin’s notions. Both individuals realized that silent cinema was able to influence and change the audience’s perception, whether it be about politics, society, war, or even themselves. Silent film is powerful. To many, Chaplin’s films were nothing more than silly slapstick comedy designed to…

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…

time to analyze the roots of pure comedy and performance. As a matter of fact, what better comedy icon that Charlie Chaplin to help us have a look into what inspired our current comedy actors, performers and directors like Rowan Atkinson, Johnny Depp and Mr. Dan Kamin. Charlie Chaplin not only was a comedy idol, he also dominated many artistic (Kamin, The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin Artistry in Motion)…

Being an auditory learner it is easy to say silent films are not my thing. I like to know every word of every conversation in a film. Although I had watched few silent films prior to City Lights I didn 't really have a great perception of them, I just assumed i disliked them all. City Lights was a great film which I really enjoyed. My conceptions of silent films prior to this film were that they were boring, tried too hard to be funny, and difficult to understand because of the lack of dialogue.…