a day ago43 years after the death of Charlie Chaplin
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(5 years ago)On December 25, 1977, the actor, screenwriter, English director and producer Charlie Chaplin, one of the movie pioneers and one of the largest artists in film history, died in Switzerland. “He wasn't a Hollywood star”, says American Chaplin expert Lisa Stein Haven, “because when he was a star, Hollywood didn't exist” [...]
On December 25, 1977, the actor, screenwriter, English director and producer Charlie Chaplin, one of the movie pioneers and one of the largest artists in film history, died in Switzerland.
“He wasn't a Hollywood star”, says American Chaplin expert Lisa Stein Haven, “because when he was a star, Hollywood didn't exist”
Black Mustards, hat, cane, and ducky with Charlie Chaplin's big shoes. As with his first film, with which he obtained great success „
Born on April 16, 1889, in London he passed away in Switzerland in 1977 he experienced many successes in cinematography but also many scandals. Charles Spencer Chaplin ran from a poor family and managed to win millions in Hollywood. His film “His quest for gold” 1925) discusses exactly this contradiction: the sad reality and the dream of gold and wealth.
Most of Chaplin's works were created in the time of silent film. For „The city's hands“he worked on the stage of switching from silent film to sound. But Chaplin did not prefer movies out loud. He used his voice with saving and experimenting. His movies testify he was right: Mimica, pantomime, gestures, and expression all work today in Chaplin movies.
Charlie Chaplin was committed to women and married four times in all. Young girls were always attracted to the young movie star. This has often caused him trouble. In the United States and his homeland in England, the apostles of morality have strongly criticized him.
His second wife, Lita Grey Chaplin, and two children: 1913
Only in his old Chaplin movies did Chaplin play unpleasant characters. He soon devoted himself to the roles that later characterized his films - this was the common man who defends himself against life's injustices. In later acts such as the modern „ “ (1936) he also exercises a deep social criticism: man in industrialization gears.
A masterful work of Chaplin is the film “Great Discriptor” (1940). The effort, considered almost impossible to satirize Hitler, and Chaplin succeeded. Chaplin later said that if he had known about the concentration camps he wouldn't have filmed. Despite this “, the great dictator” is still a movie worth watching.
In later work “Projectors” Chaplin has also refined many of its experiences. The artist's climb is covered. The premiere of the film appeared in 1952 at a time when Chaplin was despised in the United States. He was accused there of being close to Communism. Chaplin, who was then in England, was not allowed to return to the United States.
After ten years of suspension, Charlie Chaplin revuri on stage in Europe in 1967 film: “The Hong Kong Contesare”. Although the film with the two stars of Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando cinematography had high-level actors, it produced no commercial success. Chaplin spent his final years in Switzerland. Only once he returned briefly to the U.S.
To this day, there is no other figure in the history of cinematography to be as present as Charlie Chaplin. Whether in advertising, in shopping malls, in plaques, in photos or on the Internet, the figure of a wanderer with typical features of actor Charlie Chaplin is everywhere at all times. Chaplin has survived times although his period as director belongs to a distant past.
Even those who did not grow up with Charlie Chaplin and his movies know the wanderer. He wasn't a Hollywood star”, says American Chaplin expert Lisa Stein Haven, “because when he was a star, Hollywood didn't exist” Today, you can still say: Charlie Chaplin is much more than an actor. He's a legend.
