MODERN TIMES
28-10-24
SIR CHARLES SPENCER CHAPLIN (16
APRIL 1889 – 25 DECEMBER 1977)
The Kid (1921)
A Woman of Paris (1923)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Circus (1928)
City Lights (1931)
Modern Times (1936)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Limelight (1952)
A King in New York (1957)
THE TRAMP
THE TRAMP
Most memorable comic icon and on screen character in
World Cinema
Vagabond, behaviour and mannerisms of a gentleman
Large baggy pants, tight jacket, bowler hat, large pair of
shoes, a cane, toothbrush moustache
The Tramp made audience laugh ----related to his
suffering, and laughter,
(Prof. George Eman Vaillant) defense mechanism that
allows people to explore and talk about things that are
unpleasant and painful.
Chaplin incorporated tragedy into his comedies and
audience could identify with someone who struggled to
survive the Great Depression.
MODERN TIMES- FEB 5 1936
Charlie Chaplin
Paulette Goddard
Henry Bergman
Chester Conklin
MODERN TIMES
MAN IN THE COG
ASSEMBLY LINE
SOCIAL UNREST AND SURVEILLANCE
MODERN TIMES
Poverty, hardship and financial struggle
started as a vaudeville performer
Parents- artists
Infused art into comedy, slapstick comedy,
psychological influence
social commentary,- unemployment, poverty,
misery and plight of people during the time of
the Great Depression.
Critiques industrialization, also shows support for
and belief in the "American Dream."
leaders and oppressed workers in the 1930s
MODERN TIMES
irony of the modern age that promises emancipation
but for a large section of the population is an
experience of degradation and lack of dignity.
(attitude of the authority) the president of the Electro
Steel Company works on a puzzle and reads comic
strips in the newspaper.
The obsession with working efficiently and achieving
assembly-line productivity ultimately drives the Tramp
mad.
attack on the capitalist rationalization of production
Presents the American middle class and its optimism
Tramp's dream in which he and Ellen live a traditional
middle-class lifestyle.
Political references and social criticism
Life of the common man
TRAMP IN MODERN TIMES
the Tramp and his fellow workers sweat on the assembly line,
Tramp --the victim of circumstance and coincidence, but
sometimes the results worked in his favour.
he picks up a red flag that falls off a truck and starts to wave it
at the truck in an attempt to return it
unknowingly and inadvertently becomes the leader of a group of
protesting workers, and ends up in jail because of it.
While in jail he accidentally eats cocaine which causes him to not
return to his jail cell
but when he eventually does, he fights off some jail breakers
attempting to escape, thus saving the life of the warden.
Because of this, the warden offers to let him go, but the Tramp
prefers his stay in jail as it is better than the outside world.
REFERENCES
Peter Ackroyd. Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life.2014
Richard Carr. Charlie Chaplin: A Political Biography from
Victorian Britain to Modern America. 2017
Charles Chaplin. My Autobiography
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