Posted on 01/21/2019 6:27:16 AM PST by Ozguy1945
Would stuffy British culture have made Charlie Chaplin's film career impossible if he had stayed there?
Is American freedom the key to Chaplin’s greatness?
Is American freedom the key to both acheivements?
In "The Kid" which was released 98 years ago today, devoted care for a child is seen as a natural thing for a man to do and, at its best, something that meets deep human need.
A very different outlook to modern feminism's constant demonisation of men.
My husband teaches The Kid to millenial film students. It is the only movie from the past that moves them. (They’re basically insensitive idiots but Jackie Coogan does something for them.)
Hill Street Blues was some excellent television.
It was all about responsibility. It became a love story later.
I used to have a gif of people walking on a bridge in around 1900. The thing was, the guys all walked like Charlie Chaplin. I wonder if shoes without heels were common then and Chaplain’s walk wouldn’t have looked peculiar to them at all.
Wasn’t Chaplin a Commie?
“Stuffy British culture?”
Chaplin learned his craft on the stage in stuffy old England. Fortuitously he lived at a time when motion pictures had just become popular. No one can know whether he’d have had phenomenal success in the British motion picture industry. But I think Chaplin would have said that what he conveyed in silent film was universal — like hunger.
He was capitalist enough to open his own movie studio partnered with other big box office stars.
I don’t know that Allied Artists shared equal pay between the producer, actors, and costumers, or grip.
Can they see the eyes of Uncle Fester in young Jackie’s unique gaze?
I think HSB was to TV what Dickens was to the novel.
The scale of things in America may have helped him to get the star power that enabled him to do things like establish United Artists and thereby be independent. Not possible now.
To some people, yes.
When forced to leave America he went to Switzerland not Russia. That sounds like a guy who has money going somewhere where he likes the banks not like a communist. I am guessing.
Strange, since Chaplin was notoriously pro-Communist (as well as immoral).
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