with fame. This work of returning to the era of black and white silent film as a sense of form has made us who live outside the era of silent film begin to remember and miss the
once artistic expression of silent film . More than half a century later, the French director used a copy of "The Artist" to cherish the memory of the once glorious art, and the memory of the once glorious artist.
Among them, Chaplin must be the first person to emerge from the depths of people's memory.
Chaplin's first time in 1914 The image of wearing a bowler hat, holding a bamboo cane, walking on a large leather boot, and walking like a duck appeared in the black and white silent film. By 1936, his last silent film "Modern Times", for 22 years, Chaplin brought it to the audience. One classic moment after another. Until his first sound film "The Dictator" appeared, the silent film finally came to an end.
"Modern Times" is not only the starting point for Chaplin to bid farewell to the tramp to a new artistic glory, it is also a brilliant end to the silent film. At the time of the filming of this movie, the movie had come to the age of sound films, but Chaplin stubbornly believed that the body image and action language were better than the artistic appeal of dialogue, so he added music to this movie. A few sound effects will be released. Although some "reverse history", we should admit that "Modern Times" is a film with accurate thinking and correct art. Although the ending is slightly clichéd, the film has the deepest thinking about the relationship between "man and machine" in Hollywood movies of that era. Under Chaplin's interpretation, the image of people who have been assimilated by machines is ready to emerge-look at today's new humans who can't survive without the Internet and mobile phones, Chaplin's artistic insight and foresight can be seen
At the same time, Chaplin also criticized many social injustices and injustices through "Modern Times". The protagonist in the film has experienced the "human rush to work" and strikes of the industrial age, experienced large-scale protest marches, experienced unjustified imprisonment, etc. Wait. Of course, I also met a vagrant girl, weaving their dreams with her. Everything in Chaplin's humorous little character tone makes the audience feel empathetic. After experiencing repeated failures and setbacks, Chaplin’s phrase "Buck up-never say die. we'll get along!" at the end of the film and the picture of drawing a smiling face with a finger pen on the street woman will eventually become classics. , Deeply affects us, deeply affects the world.
Chaplin is really a rare film master. He has left so many classics for future generations.
I hope that non-commercial blockbusters like "The Artist" can be appreciated by more people today
to commemorate those covered in dust. Genius in the black and white world
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