Silent Film Analysis : The Immigrant : Directed By Charlie Chaplin

Many immigrants were lied to, stolen from and were used and manipulated. Authority figures knew the positions immigrants were in and they stole everything from them so they can become more wealthy and more powerful. Upton Sinclair shows this corruption in his book with the entire family going through their own problems. Jurgis gets arrested after a bartender calls the cops on Jurgis for attacking him when Jurgis really didn’t. The bartender did this so he could keep the one hundred dollars that Jurgis was trying to cash in. Ona was treated poorly when her boss, Connor, forced her to sleep with him or else he would ruin the family. This would lead to Jurgis beating up connor and getting thrown in prison while the family is left out to die without Jurgis making any money. The entire family was tricked and stolen from when they man their worst decision of buying a house. This house that they bought seemed to be the perfect buy. It looked new and it was going to solve all their problems accept it only made their lives worse. The house actually was really old and it was just made to look new so families would buy it. After a family paid for the down payment interest would kill the families financially slowly until they had to move out. Once moved out they repainted the house to make it look nice and restart. Jurgis’ family fell for this trap and it destroyed their well being and their

Film’s unique visual and narrative properties in “The Immigrant” aid in critiquing the popularly held “American Dream”. The dream stated that anyone, even foreigners, could achieve financial/personal success in America if they worked hard, but Chaplin believes this is not completely true. Narrative qualities of film in “The Immigrant” present concrete stories and characters that visually demonstrate the hardships, mistreatment, and luck involved in the misunderstood “American Dream”. The exaggerated rockiness of the ship and the implied death of the female character’s mother showed viewers that traveling to America is not as glamorous as the American Dream makes it out to be. When immigrants finally

Chicano film is a special and important genre of film that has become an outlet for Chicanos in order for their voices to be heard and stories to be seen by all. After watching a number of Chicano films this semester, I have gained a deeper understanding of Chicano history and have even been able to relate to many of the stories, conflicts, struggles, and pride shared through these films. I feel as though Chicano film has progressed quite a bit since the beginning of Chicano cinema in 1954 when Salt of the Earth was released, and many modern films have allowed different perspectives to be seen regarding Chicano and overall Latino culture. If I had to choose two major films to pass onto future generations of

Shaun Tan depicts the immigrant experience through the graphic novel, The Arrival. Tan sets many emotions and thoughts in motion, without using any words. Tan depicts the many challenges immigrants face when venturing to a foreign land for the first time. This graphic novel depict the immigrant experience in a very effective way. Tan does so by using many different methods to demonstrate this experience, the strange language, strange surrounds, and unfamiliar people, are some of the most prominent. While the immigrant story is often one riddled with struggle, they too have times of great joy and friendship, which is something Tan also effectively demonstrates. The New York Times had this to say about Tans novel “The Arrival” tells not an immigrant’s story, but the immigrant’s story.” I agree with this statement full-heartedly, The Arrival, although focused around one central character can tell the story of thousands of immigrants throughout the spread of time.

I was quite intrigued by this narrative, mainly because of the symbolism behind it. I initially thought the narrative was going to be about racism in America, or how illegal immigrants are treated worse than normal civilians. But after reading the narrative thoroughly, I had ambivalent feelings about assimilation, and how dangerous it can be for people from different cultures.

There are many difficulties which immigrants and immigrant's descendants encounter such as: language difficulties, identity crisis, economic, educational gaps and cultural differences. This film shows some difficulties and challenges which immigrants and immigrant's descendants experience from Carlos and his son, Luis point of view.

Ewa Cybulska and her sister Magda come to America seeking a better life escaping the Great War in Poland in the movie “The Immigrant.” Many people view this movie as a modern visual for what the life of an Immigrant was like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. How accurate does this movie depict the life of an Immigrant from the gilded age? Can one watch this movie and fully understand how these immigrants live their lives in this time period. The movie “The Immigrant” does a good job in the aspect of showing the way a women immigrant that was desperate for money such as Ewa had to live but it focuses on this particular situation such as Ewa and Magda’s. To fully understand what immigrants that were flooding to America in this time

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This statement, relates to both families in the book and movie, as they experience culture shock in a new environment. Both daughters perspective, shows confusion in their new home, not knowing about the new culture they are confronted with. Overall, immigrants experience a culture shock, when moving to another country, displaying one conflict that deal with.

The role of the immigrant as an American cultural figure cannot be understated, and the cultural values associated with “immigrant” versus “non-immigrant” Jews in particular are primarily class values. However, even once assimilated and wealthy, upper-class Jews face a difficult situational dichotomy: Whether to join the high-minded literati (a category that Jews helped shape in America) or the more vulgar entrepreneurial class. The anxieties associated with Jewish history complicate this choice, and its consequences are echoed in many films, including Animal Crackers and Annie Hall.

Introduction The Immigrant (1917) is a short comedy film that follows silent film actor Charles Chaplin as an immigrant aboard a shipping vessel travelling to the United States. Chaplin directed and wrote the screenplay of the film himself with other writers Vincent Bryan and Maverick Terrell. Aside from Charlie, The Immigrant case also includes Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin, and Henry Bergman among others. Chaplin, Henry Caulfield, and John Jasper produced the film. Chaplin also edited the film, although some of his involvement are uncredited.

Canada had a big impact on the first nations peoples in terms of wiping out their religion and turning them into a "Canadian". This movie showed that first nations children were seduced into a residential school. I see that this was an unwarranted and unfair system to gain their rules into place. The first nation's children had to follow rules, some rules were their attire had to be a dress for the girls and a suit for the boy, they were not allowed to follow their religion or to speak their own language or they would get punished. It was obligatory for them to learn the catholicism religion and speak, read and write in English. The British/Canadian order was that they think all aboriginals are "savage" or uncivilized so consulting aboriginals

The first scene of the film Notorious takes place in a Court. This opening can make the audience fall into the story immediately. The leading actress’s name is Alicia Huberman, who was represented by Ingrid Bergman. Her father is an agent, and he gets involves in some terrible issues so that he is judged in the Court. What’s worse, her father’s prison sentence leaves her skeptical of others, and Alicia is very eager to have a new companion in her life. The camera first sets on reporters which implies that Alicia and her father are famous people in the town. Alicia cannot get rid of her bad mood; therefore, she is addicted to alcohol because she thinks it can help her to forget her bad time. And then, the film begins to introduce the

The film flashes forward to 1943 again where Louie and his surviving crew members are sent on search and rescue mission on a plane that Louie believes is not strong enough to fly, but the others think it is fine. During the mission, the plane’s engines fail, causing the flight to fall into the ocean. Only three crew members survived, Louie, Phil, and Mac, and they lived on two inflatable rafts for 45 days. On day three of 45, a search plane flew by, but unfortunately they were unable to get its attention. The trio fought through a storm and a shark attack by depending on a minimal amount of food, rainwater, birds and fish. On day 27 of 45, Mac died. Finally on day 45, Japanese soldiers capture Louie and Phil making them prisoners of war. The

The Quiet American uses a wide range of film techniques to tell a compelling and enjoyable narrative, even the dialogue is a little bit choppy at times. In retrospect, some of these film techniques were highly successful while others were incredibly detrimental to the motion picture. Perhaps the most noticeable film technique the movie used, and therefore perhaps the most debatable, is the immense foreshadowing that takes place at the beginning of the movie. In the first five minutes of the film, the audience already knows that one of the main characters will be stabbed to death. Although this does not make reaching the end of the movie impossible, the movie would have no doubtingly had a much greater hangover effect had Pyle’s death been a complete surprise.