This film fully demonstrates Chaplin’s typical style, especially his extraordinary skills in handling visual images and pantomimes, like the classic "cooking boots" scenes, as well as "Little Bread Dance", "Dancing with Dogs", and "Others" Fighting while the gun is always pointing at oneself", "the cliff cabin is dangerously dangerous", etc., have become the objects of reference and imitation for later generations. The film combines funny narrative, tragic color, and lyrical charm in an ingenious and balanced combination, making it a masterpiece of Chaplin's mature period. Subsequent works have added a lot of social criticism, but it is not as simple and optimistic as this film directly focuses on small people. For example, this film arranges homeless man Charlie to become both a rich man and a beauty. This kind of happy ending is not available in his future works. This film is Chaplin's favorite work and one of his most interesting works. It ranks in the forefront of many world-wide film history ten best works.
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2021-12-09 08:01
Extended Reading
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Julio 2021-12-09 08:01:19
This section of the wooden house being blown to the edge of the cliff is enough to conjure the gods. As the wooden house tilts, people and objects can't help but fall to the right, which is similar to Buster Keaton's "The Voyager" in 1924. In that era, if you wanted to shoot this effect, it was as shocking as the people who watched "Avatar" in 2009. And the moment Charlie jumped out, the wooden house fell off the cliff, and the connection was seamless. Most of Chaplin's films are tragedies, and this time I finally made a comedy. But I would rather believe that Charlie died in a snow-capped mountain. All of this was a dream he had before dying.
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Brett 2022-04-24 07:01:06
What about a classic. What about the first Chaplin I watched.
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Reporter: Gee! This will make a wonderful story.
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[last lines]
Photographer: Hold! Still!
[Lone Prospector and Georgia kiss]
Photographer: Oh! You've spoilt the picture.