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    Sir Charles Chaplin, better known as Charlie Chaplin rose to fame during the silent era in the early 1900’s. What made Chaplin different from other famous actors in the movie industry at the time was that he decided to play as one single identifiable character, “The Tramp”. He incorporated pantomime and quirky movements into his on screen personality and The Tramp soon became an iconic figure in the movie industry. Chaplin started his early career in at Sennett films where the first movie he ever

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    1) Silent Film Analysis - The Immigrant (1917) - Directed by Charlie Chaplin 2) Many early films, and even films today, use what is called Freytag's Pyramid. Freytag’s Pyramid refers to the way a film is structured narratively, creating a similar pattern among the beginning, middle, and end of most films. I believe that The Immigrant mostly complies with this structure. Typically, a movie’s narrative using Freytag’s Pyramid will be laid out in a way that starts with a exposition, where the characters

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    Charlie Chaplin film City Lights can be categorized as a comedy. A comedy is defined as a professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh. In the film he uses jokes and sound effects to add more to the comedy and make it more entertaining for the audience. Chaplin uses comedy to start the film. In the first scene the tramp is shown sleeping on a monument that is being presenting to the city. One example of comedy is when Chaplin uses the

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    was the dehumanizing effects of the machine on man. As the Great Depression drew on, millions of Americans were sent into poverty and left unemployed and hungry. Many actors and filmmakers took it upon themselves to address these conditions. Charlie Chaplin was one such icon whose silent film, Modern Times set during the Great Depression Era, provided a greater critique of the end of the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the Great Depression. “Modern Times” criticizes the effect of machine

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    instance. In this movie, Charlie Chaplin uses satirical and ironic themes in order to portray the real meaning about World War 2.Throughout the film, Chaplin tries to convey the theme that, people with the power to create amazing things and do amazing things (make machinery, philosophy, breakthrough discoveries) shouldn't use that power in order to fight over who is better. This can be seen in both of the characters he plays. By using this theme and satirical strategy, Chaplin makes the Nazi Party and

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    Discuss Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times Very few movies portray the relationship between the government and civilian masses during trying moments such as Fritz Lang's “Metropolis”, and Charlie Chaplin's “Modern Times”. These are two critically acclaimed films made in the late 1920’s and mid 1930’s. The time period captured is the great depression, and examine the role of the governing authorities in relation to those governed. “Metropolis” simply passes as one of the original

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    In movie The Immigrant directed by Charlie Chaplin he was Director and actor and was basically splendid he is genius from cinematographic industry. In this film, Charlie is acting like a boat and shaking from side to side and that he is sliding precisely when the boat begins to shake. Actuality, the boat is not shaking by any means. The camera that Charlie is utilizing is just on a rotate tilting from side to side. To demonstrate that Charlie is sliding, he needed to move the other way of the camera

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    A Dog’s Life: A Dog Eat Dog World Due to the strong comedic performance of Charlie Chaplin in his iconic film A Dog’s Life, many forget the dark socio economic crisis that Chaplin was seeking to unveil throughout the film. To elaborate, this film was first released in the U.S. in 1918, the same year that World War I ended, so while the humor portrayed through Chaplin’s character, Tramp, may have eased the sensibilities of a tired and war-torn country, the whole film had dark socio economic undertones

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    A Dog’s life by Charlie Chaplin expresses a handful of social issues with comedy; it has filmmaking techniques and numerous comic elements. The film was made in 1918, during World War I. Chaplin demonstrates how poor people live and how certain people view them. The film takes place in a poor neighborhood. Chaplin plays as Tramp in the film, a homeless man trying to survive. The film begins with Tramp sleeping on the ground in an empty lot. In that same scene Tramp wakes up to the smell of food.

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    Research Essay Charlie Chaplin’s creativity There are many people throughout past and present that are thought to be imaginative, unique, creative and inventive. This type of people available in all the in fields, such as art, film, technology, politics. Influence of their work is not limited to their industries also influenced whole world. Creativity is unique thought to make something, innovativeness. In film industries there are many people had affected the world by their creative work, for example

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