Essays on Charlie Chaplin

Film Studies

At the beginning of the film we can see many people who work very hard and quick and without any rewards. As a result of such work our main character gets nervous breakdown and he is put into the hospital. When he recovers, he finds out that the factory is closed and that shows that the country has the economical problems: it cannot keep workers, pay them salaries and it must be closed. All this results the massive strikes, because people want and need jobs in order to feed their families and themselves, they need to wear something etc. ...

One of the most iconic characters in the world of comedy today is Charlie Chaplin. A popular comedian of the 20th century era, Sir Charles “Charlie” Spencer Chaplin has become renowned not only by his comedic works, but also his pioneers in the work of film and his political views. His has contributed a great deal to the world of cinematography during the silent era. Charlie Chaplin is credited for inventing the “Tramp” character, a usually homeless and poor persona who nonetheless possess positive qualities that become crucial throughout the course of the story. This character is evident in ...

Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast was born in Germany in 1840, and he moved to the United States at the age of six. Initially he used to do illustrations to support his family that was going through acute financial crisis. Nast started his work as an illustrator when he was 15. At that time he was working as an illustrator for a magazine called Leslie’s Weekly New. His earning was $4 a week. In the year1862, during Civil War, he took a job of a war reporter in Harper’s Weekly Magazine.

Thomas Nast stereotypes the Irish as

unmixable in America's melting pot. 1889 For reporting the ...

Article Review

Article Review I review such article as “Gender Flux: Transatlantic Influence on Fashioning the Cross-dresser in American Silent Cinema” by author Ricardo E. Zulueta. It has been published in the journal “The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture” in 2015. It should be noted, that until now, there is no single view of the nature of gender. On the one hand, gender is associated with the models, which are developed for the scientific description of the problems associated with gender issues. On the other hand, gender may be considered as a social phenomenon, which is created by people in ...

Charlie Chaplin’s performance in The Great Dictator (1940) In the history of soundless cinema, The Great Dictator still stands unbeaten as a marvel among all of the Charlie Chaplin’s greatest works. The unique element of surprise in this movie comes from the fact that the movie exerts a satirical comedy over perhaps the cruelest historical figure, Adolf Hitler at times when he was on peak of his action plan coming into reality. This essay is intended to analyze the various aspects of Charlie Chaplin’s character and role play in this movie to understand what elements made ...

Audience:

Venue: Speech: Charlie Chaplin Body of the Speech At the beginning of the speech, the speaker was visibly nervous, which was betrayed by her heavy breathing. However, the speaker’s unease was overshadowed by her witty introduction to the speech, which was not only humorous but also managed to get the attention of the audience. The mention of the controversial figure, Hitler, added humor to the speech, and got the audience hooked. The speaker then went ahead and informed the audience of the objective of the speech, which made the speech focused. The contents of ...

Abstract

Modernity and Post modernity are the two social, political, economic and cultural phases in respectively 20th and 21st centuries. The initial phase of cinema was much influenced by phase of modernity and the later was influenced by the aspects of post modernity. The paper tries to analyse these modernity and post-modernity in cinematic context. For this comparative analysis the researcher has taken two cinematic works. The initial focus of the paper is the study of the term modernity with its elements. These elements have been analyzed in the context of Charlie Chaplin’s cinematic work. The paper then discusses ...

Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play written by Samuel Beckett. It covers many different social aspects that the author wanted to highlight and bring into publicity. First of all, the characters and their costumes remind Charlie Chaplin’s ones. Both characters, Vladimir and Estragon, are dressed as tramps, their costumes are pretty similar that’s why they can exchange with each other. Moreover, they are wearing bid bowler hats, bid boots not necessarily matching their real foot size and big baggy trousers – all there elements can be found in the appearance of Charlie Chaplin. Hence, Estragon and ...

Charlie Chaplin directed the silent talkie movie “City Lights”, after working for decades in truly silent movies. The movie was released on 7th March, 1931 at George M Cohan Theater that saw excellent crowd on the initial day of its screening. The genre of the movie can be classified as romance, drama and comedy. Charlie Chaplin has contributed in many departments of the movie as an actor, director, producer, scorer, and screenwriter. The movie was a huge success due to the contribution of many versatile actors like, Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Al Garcia, Harry Myers, Florence Lee, and Hank Mann. ...

Preferred reading is a term in which the director of the movie takes the audience to a message with the codes. Stardust Memories is all about art. When one sees an excellent work of art, it should hold up the audience and take them further into something deep. Even while watching the video more than once, the opinion about Stardust Memories stays the same that it is one of the greatest black and white movies made. ‘Fear of failure’ is the phrase that sums up the entire movie. For any artists, it kills their egos to think that they will fail ...

Compare and Contrast the Gold Rush and. Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. The film presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that took place in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship, Potemkin rebelled against their officers. On the other hand, “The Gold Rush” is a silent film comedy written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin in 1925 where he stars in his Little Tramp role. The film narrates a story of the Gold Rush, where Charlie Chaplin searches for gold in Arkansas. The aim of this paper is to compare and contrast the two films by making specific ...

In Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 comedy The Great Dictator, Chaplin’s first silent film, the renowned comedian and silent-film joymaker takes one of his biggest risks – making a film about Adolf Hitler, who at the time of the film’s release was one of the most hated and tyrannical figures alive. More than just the typical slapstick comedy, The Great Dictator sees Chaplin taking many different chances – unlike his previous film, Modern Times, this film would fully embrace the sound era, with nearly the entire film being filled with dialogue and fully-verbose characters. Even riskier than that, however, is the ...

Charlie Chaplin's 1936 silent comedy Modern Times has the classic tramp navigating an increasingly complex and frightening modern world of industrialization. There are many messages and things that a 21st century audience can take from this film; despite the fact that technology has increased much more than in the 1930s, the same themes resonate. Audiences in the 21st century can often feel like Chaplin's Little Tramp character, constantly trapped and threatened by these cogs and large buildings. In one particular scene, Chaplin is conveyed along a series of gears, his body swimming through the twists and turns of the movement of ...

Silent comedy is an acting style that was invented after the development of film technology. Movie writers employed prominence on visual and physical factor to bring out the humor in the movies. They helped entertain the audience. The most common tactics of the great era were sound tracks to match the movements, and sounds emanating from exaggerated violence (DeMain 2012). They were generally recognized as slapstick. Good examples are sounds made after someone was hit with a stick, running water, or being hit with a pie on the face. In addition were the mimes. Here, an actor had to use body ...

This review of the movie shall take a different treatment to the cinema. We shall be analyzing the movie on the whole with the social problem or issue associated with it, which was prevalent at that time and might be still relevant today. There is a variety of social issues that the movie highlights. Those are the divide between the rich and the poor, the humanism, and the conscience of the mankind, both from the perspectives of the rich and the poor. There is an inherent link between all the three issues that our review shall also try to establish. Our ...

Charles Spencer Chaplin, well known as Charlie Chaplin was a legendary comedian. He belonged to South London and his date of birth is April 16th, 1889. Besides being an actor, Chaplin was also a director, writer and music composer for the period of the silent movies era. His movies, though silent, are full of amusement and are admired even in this modern world.

Charlie faced a lot of tribulations in his childhood due to poverty. He lived with his mother, Hannah Chaplin, a vaudeville singer, and his older half brother Sydney. His father, Charles Chaplin, Sr., a vaudeville actor, left them when he found ...

Introduction

Films under the “teen romance” genre have continued to attract a large young audience especially in the modern society. Most films under this category have attained the best seller category over the past few years. There have been divided views concerning these films particular on their impact on the younger generation. Most of these films explore romantic aspects that affect teenagers on a daily basis. Teen movies have not been granted much consideration yet they showcase significant issues such as politics, gender, psychology and many others that affect the modern society.

Politics

The book, “The Hollywood Sign: The Culture of American Film ...