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Through its universal themes and comic inventiveness, Modern Times remains one of Chaplin's greatest and most enduring works. Perhaps more important, it is the Tramp's finale, a tribute to Chaplin's most beloved character and the silent-film era he commanded for a generation. [24] The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:
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Modern Times, American silent film, released in 1936, that starred Charlie Chaplin as a man at odds with modern technology. It is regarded as the last great silent film.
The film, which was set during the Great Depression, centres on a luckless factory worker (played by Chaplin) who finds himself so unnerved by trying to cope with the modern equipment he must operate that he suffers a breakdown. After being institutionalized, he is freed, only to be mistaken for a communist agitator. He is arrested but released after preventing a jailbreak. He subsequently falls in love with a young girl (Paulette Goddard) whom he met when she was running from the police after stealing a loaf of bread. The factory worker and the girl have many adventures together as they evade the police and struggle for a better life. Eventually they escape for the open road.
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Chaplin had not been seen on a theatre screen for five years when Modern Times premiered to great acclaim in 1936. Still stubbornly resisting work in “talkies,” he stood alone in his insistence upon preserving the silent film. As he did with City Lights (1931), Chaplin conceded to recording a music and sound effects track, but there would be no dialogue heard on-screen. (A reactionary in terms of filmmaking techniques, he once predicted sound films would be passé by 1932.)
(Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.)
•Studio: United Artists
•Director, producer, writer, and music: Charlie Chaplin
•Charlie Chaplin (A Factory Worker)
•Paulette Goddard (A Gamin)
•Henry Bergman (Café Proprietor)
•Stanley Sandford (Big Bill)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Oct 7, 2011 · Modern Times is Chaplin’s last “silent” film, and a last bow for his “Tramp” character, which had made Chaplin the world’s most famous man in the 1920s. After the 1931 premier of City Lights 9131), Chaplin went on a world tour, meeting with many leaders to discuss the pressing issues of the time.
- Gregory Stephens
Industrial modernity proves mercilessly madcap in Charlie Chaplin’s final (mostly) silent feature, one of the most inspired and ingenious of all his comedies. Nine years after the arrival of film sound, the silent cinema’s biggest star remained reluctant to leap into the new world.
Modern Times: Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford. The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Charles Chaplin
- 1936-02-25
Feb 14, 2022 · Yes, technically Modern Times isn’t a silent film. There are sound effects on top of a pre-recorded score, as well as a few lines of dialogue, but the latter are few and far between so, in essence, Modern Times is what you would call a silent film.
Jun 14, 2015 · Modern Times definitively identifies Chaplin’s transition from silent films into sound. He had intentions of making a talkie and even wrote a script, but trashed the idea after filming a couple scenes.
