Chaplin’s films demonstrate the ingenious story and the tremendous energy of the actor’s performance. When I watch this kind of film, I always feel full of confidence, because it makes me really feel what quality is and think about how he is. What I did made me more excited! To learn from classic comedy, the first thing is to carefully chew the comedy plot designed by the master with ingenuity.
1. Summary of the story
Charlie , the gold digger, came to Alaska alone and joined the mighty stream of gold diggers. He walked over the narrow and steep cliffs and was forced into a room with a wanted criminal by a sudden storm. Cabin, this storm also blew another gold prospector Jim. He had just discovered a gold mine, but he was blown away by the tent by the storm.
The wanted man wanted to drive off Charlie and Jim, but the huge storm finally blew himself out. After a fierce fight, the three negotiated to live together in the cabin.
The storm was lingering, and the hungry Charlie ate candles as snacks. The three people guessed the cards to decide that one would find food. The winner was a wanted criminal. He took the dog and killed the other two gold diggers on the road. , And accidentally discovered the gold mine that Jim originally discovered.
Charlie and Jim waited for rescue. Amidst unbearable hunger, Charlie cooked one of his leather shoes and ate them together. Jim was so hungry that he regarded Charlie as a rooster and almost slaughtered him; Charlie was afraid from then on. Fearing that Jim would kill himself as a chicken to eat, in a fight, a black bear broke in, and the eating problem was finally solved...Finally, the two left the cabin amicably. Jim met when he went to find his own gold mine. He was beaten to the ground by the wanted man, and the wanted man was killed in an avalanche.
The down-and-out Charlie came to a small town where gold diggers gathered. In a ballroom, he met a beautiful dancer and picked up a torn photo of her. The dancer was arguing with her playboy boyfriend at the time. To get rid of her boyfriend’s entanglement, the dancer deliberately invited Charlie to dance with him. The careless Charlie brought a dog in. After the dance, Charlie gave the partner a stubborn flower; when he saw that the playboy was still pestering the dancer, He also acted as a "hero to save the United States." Of course, he was small and couldn't beat others at all, but the bell that smashed down gave him a chance to win.
Leaving the ballroom, Charlie saw a man preparing food in another cabin. He pretended to be a frozen passerby and fell at the door of the cabin. The kind man rescued him back to the cabin and took good care of him. The man had something to go out. He succeeded in becoming the caretaker of this cabin.
At this time, the dancer who was having a snowball fight with her companions passed by the wooden house and met Charlie again. The dancer found her own photo and roses under Charlie’s pillow. Knowing that Charlie had fallen in love with herself, she and her companion thought They played a trick on Charlie. They pretended to be very courteous to Charlie. Unexpectedly, Charlie made a joke again. He caught fire on his feet and burned the dancing girl’s sweater. Finally, they met Charlie to celebrate New Year’s Eve together. Charlie Going crazy with excitement, jumping and screaming in the room, this scene was hit by the dancer who came back to take the gloves.
In order to entertain the sweetheart, Charlie leaned on the street to shovel snow for people to earn money. The funny thing is that he always shoveled the snow from the first door to the door of the next door, and the accumulated snow at the door of the next door could not get out of the door. At the time, he shoveled the door of this house to the door of the next house next door... However, he succeeded in earning money, and carefully prepared candlelight dinner and New Year gifts in the cabin (this scene is really touching), waiting The arrival of the beloved.
The dancer was just a joke. On New Year’s Eve, she was partying in the hotel, and Charlie was still waiting. Finally, he imagined himself performing a fork bread ballet to the dancer. The people in the ballroom sang "Friendship Forever", the camera switched. Charlie fell asleep on the table alone. When he woke up, he was still alone, so he had to leave and go to the ballroom to look for; but the dancer suddenly remembered her promise, and came to the cabin with her friends, and saw Charlie carefully prepared At the banquet, the dancer fell into sorrow, she said, "The joke is over."
The dancing girl felt very self-blame. She wrote Charlie a note of love and apology. Charlie was so happy. At this time, Jim, who had lost his memory, tried to find the cabin. He ran into Charlie in the ballroom, and he too Going crazy to take Charlie away.
The two found the cabin together. Jim tried hard to remember the location of the gold mine, and at this time a bigger storm greeted the cabin. The cabin was blown to the edge of the cliff by the storm, and the two people inside But he didn’t know it; the next morning, Charlie got up for breakfast and felt like he was walking on the balance beam; when Jim got up too, they became two people walking on the balance beam. They found the back door and found that their lives were on the line. After all the thrills, they finally After escaping from the cabin, there must be a blessing to survive the catastrophe. Jim found that the gold mine he had found was under his feet.
The two became millionaires and were interviewed by reporters on an oil tanker. The photographer asked Charlie to change into his poor clothes to take pictures. He accidentally fell into the bottom cabin while posing the pose, and the dancing girl did this. Shi was by his side, and at the same time, a policeman mistakenly regarded Charlie as a stowaway. The dancer said that she was willing to pay the boat fare for him. At this time, millionaire Jim also arrived. The misunderstanding was resolved, and the lover finally got married.
2. Comedy character
Charlie: always unlucky, but can save danger every time; always make a fool of himself at critical times, but behave as if nothing has happened every time; there are small characters who are treacherous and cunning but kind and brave in heart;
3. Classic comedy plot
1. Knife Fork Bread Dance: How to combine two very common objects and imitate ballet dancers, not only imitating the movements, but also imitating the dancer's demeanor. The curtain call is really classic, and it is placed in the scene of performing a show for the beloved girl. Among them, it has a charming charm. (Similarly, there are performances with hands and feet)
2. Boiled leather shoes: How to use French lobster to eat a boiled leather shoe? How to treat shoelaces as noodles, shoe uppers as shrimp shells, and shoe spikes as shrimp legs? Both sides have to rush to eat shoe skins and shoes. This is an absurd thing, but it seems very reasonable in that situation. It is embarrassing to eat shoes, but Charlie can still eat well. , The comedy effect speaks for itself.
3. The house full of goose feathers: sent away the beloved girl and got her invitation. Charlie excitedly kicked over the table and jumped into bed at home, knocked off the rice bag, tore the pillows, climbed on the beams to swing, and jumped onto the bed. Inverted, and finally rolled on the ground with the goose feathers all over the room...All sorts of gaffes had already made the audience feel funny, but the dancer returned halfway, embarrassing Charlie, and even more interesting.
4. Wooden house by the cliff: The wooden house hangs on the edge of the cliff. The audience's nerves are highly nervous. However, the people in the wooden house don't know it. They cook as usual and get up as usual. They thought it was dizziness, thought it was ground pressure, and tried repeatedly. ; In the end the wooden house was about to fall, the two of them did not dare to come out, but Charlie hiccups... This scene is wonderful, but there is only one technique: the audience understands what’s going on, it’s nervous, but in the play People are kept in the dark. Not only that, but they also make mistakes. The audience thinks they are smart at this time. In fact, the really smart people are the masters behind the scenes. (Reminiscent of the famous German animated short "Balance Beam", similar to the black bear design at the beginning)
5. Whom the gun is against: Jim and the wanted man grab the gun. In the fierce battle, the gun is always facing Charlie, Charlie scared It didn't work, and finally the gun went off. Charlie thought he was shot... The comedic effect here is that Charlie became a hapless man due to coincidence. (The same cannonball in "The Dictator")
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