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Modern Times (1936) (DVD) |
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Modern Times (1936)
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman
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Charlie Chaplin is in glorious form in this legendary satire of the mechanized world. As a factory worker driven bonkers by the soulless momentum of work, Chaplin executes a series of slapstick routines around machines, including a memorable encounter with an automatic feeding apparatus. The pantomime is triumphant, but Chaplin also draws a lively relationship between the Tramp and a street gamine. She's played by Paulette Goddard, then Chaplin's wife and probably his best leading lady (here and in The Great Dictator). The film's theme gave the increasingly ambitious writer-director a chance to speak out about social issues, as well as indulging in the bittersweet quality of pathos that critics were already calling "Chaplinesque." In 1936, Chaplin was still holding out against spoken dialogue in films, but he did use a synchronized soundtrack of sound effects and his own music, a score that includes one of his most famous melodies, "Smile." And late in the film, Chaplin actually does speak--albeit in a garbled gibberish song, a rebuke to modern times in talking pictures. --Robert Horton --This text refers to the VHS Tape edition.
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One of the American Film Institute's 100 Greatest Films. In "Modern Times," The Little Tramp battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, burglars, demanding customers, bosses and "The Gamin." He wins some and loses more but, at the end, walks undaunted into the sunrise. Although it is known as Charlie Chaplin's last silent film, "Modern Times" is remarkably unsilent. From the opening notes of the rich orchestral score to the first and last time the voice of The Little Tramp is heard near the end of the film, the effect is of a film that speaks with a clear, well-rounded voice.
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