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.
Strange, since Chaplin was notoriously pro-Communist (as well as immoral).