The Tramp

like to call stereotypes. Characters that are known in movies, but not really known in real society. This even started in 1920’s as we date back to characters like “Americas sweetheart” and “vamps” in film. Charlie Chaplin plays a role as a little tramp. We see that he is a very kindhearted, hardworking, and odd character. He is short, he has a thick dark mustache, and he isn’t the best looking. Chaplin humanizes this character into a role that

laughter, it also exposes the dark society during the great depression. A similar example is the scene which Tramp wears skates and is being robbed when he is the night watchman of a department store. The robbers threaten him with a gun and ask him to stay where he is, but Tramp cannot control his own movement wearing the skates. He stumbles and falls. The robbers fire and break the wine cask. Tramp becomes drunk and even harder to control his movement. His movements when he should stay still are the

TRAMP is a political, conspiracy thriller that sends a strong social commentary about the homeless. The script is also driven by solid themes about revenge, redemption, and second chances. The tone is dramatic. The protagonist is faced with strong moral choices. There’s a well-identified protagonist in Frank McCoy. McCoy is driven and motivated by his inner conflict. The goal is clear and the stakes are life and death. The script also offers a few nice twists and turns. In addition, there are some

his career forever. It was called “Kid Auto Races at Venice”. The film starred Chaplin as a homeless man who appeared undersized and undernourished. He was nicknamed “the Little Tramp” or “the Little Fellow” by audiences (“Biography for Charles Chaplin” ; “Charlie Chaplin” 376).      His “Little Tramp”

The cast of the movie was Virginia Cherrill as a blind girl, Florence Lee as the blind girl grandmother, Harry Myers as an eccentric millionaire, Allan Garcia as his Butler, Hank Mann as A prizefighter and finally Charlie Chaplin as tramp. Chaplin is a resilient tramp who falls in love with a blind flower girl on the city streets. After he had learned that she and her grandmother were evicted from their house, he undertakes a couple of attempts to provide money for the two women. In turn, all of his

Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are two of most decorated comedic actors to date, and they did not have to utter a single word. In fact, these actors brought about laughter throughout the silent film era, and gained large followings despite their contrasting comedy styles. Buster Keaton began his career in vaudeville before making the switch to film in the early 1900s. That is when he became the visual storyteller who’s deadpan and stoic expressions earned him a nickname of “The Great Stone Face”

What does the opening shot showing sheep say about the human condition? Sheep have been domesticated by humans, and are the symbol of obedience and docility without questioning. Sheep go together in masses with the head looking down, following the group. In this sequence at the beginning of the movie, masses of people going to the factory are comparable to a flock of sheep. They have been domesticated by the new era, the era of machines in “modern times”. 2 How does Chaplin characterize the

Reply-To: sherrelle lewis Charlie Chaplin The Gold Rush , is a silent comedic film about going after the American dream and the hardships one must endure while trying to survive against all odds. As usual Chaplin plays his famous character , the tramp , a dim-witted under dog. He is a lone prospector who falls in love with a dance hall girl. Chaplin effectively used mise-en-scene for cinematic communication in server scenes in this film. In this film, viewers see hardship through the perspective

In movie The Immigrant directed by Charlie Chaplin he was Director and actor and was basically splendid he is genius from cinematographic industry. In this film, Charlie is acting like a boat and shaking from side to side and that he is sliding precisely when the boat begins to shake. Actuality, the boat is not shaking by any means. The camera that Charlie is utilizing is just on a rotate tilting from side to side. To demonstrate that Charlie is sliding, he needed to move the other way of the camera

While “All men are created equal,” the “tramp,” in American history, has been the subject of particular animosity. The Chicago Times suggested solving the tramp problem by “putting a little strychnine or arsenic in the meat and other supplies furnished to tramps” as “a warning to other tramps to keep out of the neighborhood.” Transient workers were certainly not an invention of post-Civil War 1870’s America; that era’s tramp army was created by the confluence of the “Panic of 1873” (a first ‘Great