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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.
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Modern Times is a 1936 American part-talkie comedy film produced, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. In Chaplin's last performance as the iconic Little Tramp , his character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world.
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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
Nov 3, 2021 · Charlie Chaplin is an English actor who, in the early 1900s, rose to fame and popularity in the silent film industry. He became most recognizable through his iconic Tramp character, a social outcast with a kind heart. In “Modern Times,” the Tramp finds himself living amidst poor financial conditions heightened by massive unemployment.
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.
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
Nov 30, 2010 · Chaplin was quite aware that he now stood alone as a maker of silent films. Regardless of its success or failure, this was almost assuredly going to be the Tramp’s last hurrah, and Chaplin’s farewell to the form.
Nov 16, 2010 · Charlie Chaplin had once been the paramount icon of modernity, rushing headlong across the screen in a dazzling imitation of the speed and grace of contemporary life. In clinging stubbornly to silence with City Lights, and then (mostly) with Modern Times, however, he was risking seeming, of all things, passé.
