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Charlie Chaplin's movie 'The Modern Times '
About Charlie Chaplin
His popular films like,
The Great Dictator
The Kid
City Lights
The Gold Rush
About Movie :-
The Modern Times
Charles Chaplin performs “Modern Times”, a comedy film, in 1936. His Tramp character already has an extraordinary popularity. He invented the character of a generous and sensible vagabond two decades earlier, on the eve of the Great War. Charlie embodies the suffering of the dispossessed (wiki source) .
Charlie Chaplin's movie 'The Modern Times '
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, "The Tramp", and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry.
The Great Dictator
The Kid
City Lights
The Gold Rush
About Movie :-
The Modern Times
Charles Chaplin performs “Modern Times”, a comedy film, in 1936. His Tramp character already has an extraordinary popularity. He invented the character of a generous and sensible vagabond two decades earlier, on the eve of the Great War. Charlie embodies the suffering of the dispossessed (wiki source) .
The absence of dialogue. In 1936, the talkies has already established itself for almost 20 years. Yet Chaplin, a specialist in silent pantomime, refuses to dialogue. He still tries to prepare dialogues and even recorded some tests, inconclusive for his taste. The only human voices we hear are passed by the filter process technology: the boss who speaks to his workers via his television screen, the vendor machine which reduces to a voice in a phonograph. Only exception, when Chaplin improvises his song in the restaurant in a vaguely Italian gibberish.
In contrast, music and sound effects are omnipresent in the film. Chaplin composed the music itself. It is the custom, as indicated by the rate of work. When the chain is accelerating, the music also.
A work of identification picky: ten years before realizing Modern Times, Chaplin visited the Ford factory in Detroit, from which emerge a car every 40 seconds! Assembly lines are impressive especially when the director who is probably inspired to design the sets for his film.
The A relentless satire of Taylorism.
Charlie is struggling with a machine frightening, to gigantic gears. The worker becomes an appendage of the machine. It dictates its furious pace, dehumanizes individuals whose behavior resembles that of a robot (Charlot keeps repeating the same gestures and continues to act as a controller during his lunch break). The man tracing his movements on the workings of the machine and not the other. Worse, it even replaces the men to feed them. Basically, it crushes individuals. Moreover, Charlot is swallowed and is found in the belly of the machine, which digests and disposes. It appears totally crazy.
Where theory would make long speeches about the boring, Chaplin uses humor to better denounce the exploitation of man by man, machine-proxy. Thus, the boss of the company where Charlie works, requires high speed, without considering the consequences on the physical and mental health of his workers. He never addresses them directly, but always by interposed screen. Hence Chaplin represents the class struggle.
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