Essays on Charlie Chaplin

As modernistic trends were becoming seemingly more prevalent in the production of cinema, Charlie Chaplin released Modern Times in 1936 to intentionally merge new conventions and ideologies of modernity with his signature desire for slapstick comedy. The film initially follows Chaplin (“The Tramp”) as he...

Through the years Charlie Chaplin had claimed his throne to the “King of Silent Comedy”. Chaplin’s film Modern Times (1936) pronounced a notable shift in his career. The main character of his film, Little Tramp, concerns himself with the critical social issues that took place...

Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 film Modern Times represented the ‘machine-age’ culture as an undermining condition of the modern society. The first shot of the film shows a large clock with the second hand moving quickly around. The symbolism is very evident with saying people live under...

The well known Charlie Chaplin had a great history and career. He was at one point a cultural phenomenon. There were toys made about him, songs written for him, and he featured in cartoons. All that success didn’t come easy because his early life was...

The movie is all about Modern Time, Charlie Chaplin is the main cast of the movie. Where he is coping up with the modern time or with modern machines. It portray how people start to try hard just to cope up with the modern time....

We know this “Great Dictator” from his silent movies; the tight coat, the baggy pants, his signature cane as well as that notorious hat. The man of silly and quirky jokes that made the world a better place, rather through hard circumstances like the great...

The speech of Charlie Chaplin that was from the 1940 film ‘The Great Dictator’ is relevant to nowadays as it was in 1940. The film was five Academy Award-nominated, which plays off with the worst dictator of Hynkel, Tomaniya (a parody of Germany and Adolf...

Charlie Chaplin is a great actor/director that was born on April 16, 1889 and died on December 25, 1877. He is known for many films such as ‘The Kid’, ‘City lights’ and ‘The Great Dictator’. He is also a person that does not believe in...

Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times may appear simplistic on the surface. It comes off as a physical comedy viewed merely for laughs and nothing more. On the contrary, Chaplin’s film visually captures of Marx’s theory of alienation and how workers are exploited within a growing capitalistic...