Modern Times behind the scenes gags

2021-10-21 12:59
This film is the last silent film directed by Chaplin, because he believes that using funny and exaggerated body language is far better than dialogue. Therefore, he only added a soundtrack and a little sound to the film.
Some scenes about the use of drugs in prison appeared in "Modern Times", but according to the American film censorship system at that time, such performance was very risky. 
It is said that one of the endings that he had already filmed was: Charlie was finally sent to a psychiatric hospital with a neurological disorder, and the girl who came to visit her became a nun. Chaplin later felt that this ending was "too painful" and took a usual route. 
After the film was released, it caused groups of international capital forces to counterattack because the film vilified the image of capital owners to a certain extent. 
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Extended Reading
  • Zion 2021-10-21 15:30:30

    When I was a child, the Chaplin series watched too much and I can't remember who is who...

  • Idella 2022-03-22 09:01:21

    Watching it last Sunday, on every workday this week when I've been too busy to drink water, I can't imagine my body being run over between giant industrial gears, hairs stand on end. But I personally feel that the cruelty of this most famous image is still weakened in the movie. The man in the gears should be smashed by the machine and spit out, instead of briskly moving his lips and instructing others to feed him lunch . (Perhaps the tension between capital and workers in the early industrial age is still not as good as it was in the 996 era of modern China.) Yes, this is not something as trivial as being thrown into a game by a machine, it will kill people. For example, the 98-year-old girl who guarded the frontier for Pinduoduo, such as Xiao Bao, who is the same age as me, I met her in the tea room yesterday. She had thyroid cancer surgery and repeatedly told me: don’t stay up late for work, anger.

Modern Times quotes

  • [first lines]

    President of the Electro Steel Corp.: Section 5, speed her up, 401.

  • Opening Title Card: "Modern Times." A story of industry, of individual enterprise - humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness.

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