The Tramp

“A day without laughter is a day wasted” Charlie Chaplin was an actor in the silent film industry and live show performances. Charlie Chaplin will be forever remembered for his funny acting and hilarious stunts. Charlie Chaplin was one of the most known comedians in the movie industry and live show performances. Chaplin was born in London on April 1889 of his mother, Lily Harley and his father, Charles Chaplin Sr, he had one brother, Sidney. During Chaplin’s childhood, he was a tap dancer and

In both of Charlie Chaplin’s critically acclaimed films “ Modern Times” and “ City Lights, he portrays the role of His female characters in both his movies as respectful and hard working women, yet Chaplin has to liberate them from their problems and use the females as meaningful jokes in both the movies. In Both of Chaplin’s films, he gives us respectful images and scenes of the Supporting female characters and other background female characters. First in the film city the lights, Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin created amazing films with his career as a director, screenwriter, actor, producer and musicianship. City Lights is a story of the tramp who falls in love with the blind flower girl. The story shows the contrasts between the two very different worlds of the rich and the poor. he befriends the damsel in distress millionaire and sparks a friendship where the tramp then sees the lives of both worlds. The mise en scene is a way that shows how different each scene is by the way each character lives

greatness has a root, as most things do, within his personal history. Due to disadvantaged childhood and his mother and father who’s occupation’s involved performing often, Charlie Chaplin had the ability to relate to his audience with his famed tramp character, and a desire to perform which began at a young age and inspired Chaplin as he climbed to greatness. Charlie Chaplin’s success didn’t appear from thin air; from a young age, Chaplin found himself surrounded by Vaudeville

have had a much larger audience. In a time period where there was war and the great depression, people would have probably gravitated towards Chaplin more than Keaton. Chaplin's “Little Tramp” image was far more recognized than Keaton's image. “At the peak of his popularity, his mustachioed screen persona, the Tramp, was said to be the most recognized image in the world.”(Vishnevetsky, AVclub.com) But, Keaton had, and still has, a large audience as well. Many did not understand

themselves could be entire two-reelers. Undoubtedly, the film is long winded, assuming the Tramp from position to put while keeping up a binding together subject of survival in the modern, post-Depression world. To assert the photo does not have the enthusiastic structure of Chaplin's reasonable comedic melodramas (City Lights, The Kid, Limelight), be that as it may, is a blunder. Going with our legend the Tramp is the "Gamin" played by the charming on-screen character Paulette Goddard, Chaplin's partner

Chris Shea ENG 343 Professor Robert Dowling 12/13/16 Early 20th-Century Dehumanization through Theatrical Plays and Cinema The early 20th century was a time for a booming economy and American prosperity. During this time, the America we know and love/hate today came into power. The emergence of a ‘middle class’ of Americans came from this time due to the jobs provided by factories and the formation of unions to keep some workplaces in check. From the introduction of the automobile to lower- and middle-class

world—a statement that he had been there and there he would stay. Chaplin had a great gift for telling a story through celluloid and used his gift to the best of his abilities. His life was filled with much adoration for his most beloved character Tramp, who starred in many of his films, and was left downtrodden when he tried to move away from the distinct style of the comedic fellow and was not successful in doing so. Much of Chaplin’s life is covered in

Rahmanian 1 Ehsan Rahmanian Professor Gary Toop PHL 710 March 31 2016 Transparencies on Film The children wisdom assaulted the almost sixty-year old waste production of the film business with the appellation: "Daddy 's Cinema." Representatives of the last thus could think of no preferred counter over "Kiddy 's Silver screen." This feline, as at the end of the day the adage goes among kids, does not duplicate. How unfortunate to set experience against youthfulness when the issue is the exceptionally

just attempting to tie gags together to tell a story. There are noticeable slapstick aspects deployed throughout this entire production. Charlie Chaplin, also known as “The Little Tramp,” plays a homeless, unemployed man who finds a companion in a stray dog named Scraps. Chaplin’s most prominent character, The Little Tramp, is one of the main symbols of slapstick comedy as a genre as a whole. Overly baggy clothing, massive shoes, classic bowler hat, and thick mustache are some of the main attributes