Question by Arif R: Charley Chaplin and the Art of Film?
Hi, i am in a Art of Film class, and we are doing a paper on how the beggining of film making has influenced the industry of today.
I wanna do the topic of how Chaplin did many comedy films about real problems such as World War II with Hitler, and Modern Times whiched showed the industrail times of this country.
Who in todays hollywood industry makes films like these? I guess these films can be called sattire.
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Answer by cremedelacreme04
G’day Arif R.,
Thanks for your question.
It sounds like an interesting topic.
Charlie Chaplin was an English comedy actor, becoming the most famous performer in the early to mid Hollywood cinema era, and also a notable director.
Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities in the silent film era: he acted in, directed, scripted, produced, and eventually even scored his own films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 70 years, from the British Victorian stage and music hall in England as a child performer, almost until his death at the age of 88. He led one of the most remarkable and colourful lives of the 20th century, from a Dickens-like London childhood to the pinnacle of world fame in the film industry and as a cultural icon.
His principal character was “The Tramp”: a vagrant with the refined manners and dignity of a gentleman who wears a tight coat, oversized trousers and shoes, a bowler hat, a bamboo cane, and his signature toothbrush moustache. Chaplin’s high-profile public and private life encompassed highs and lows of both adulation and controversy.
You may also want to read his autobiography as well as Chaplin:His Life and Art by David Robinson.
I enclose sources for your reference.
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