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Charlie Chaplin
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Charlie Chaplin
Analysis of his films & development from gag-based shorts to comedy features with complex ideas. Discusses "The Kid," "His Trysting Place," "The Idle Class."
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
6 sources |
2001
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"Charlie Chaplin was one of the most popular and influential directors and performers in the history of film. His influence derived from many different aspects of his work but one of the most important was his role in the development of comic feature films. Although other performers and filmmakers were involved in the same process (and surpassed Chaplin at times) he was nearly unique in the degree of control he exerted over the development of his own films. A comparison of works ranging from his early days of making two-reel shorts for Keystone to later shorts and his first self-directed feature at First National, The Kid (1921), demonstrates the process through which coherent narrative features were developed from the gag-based style of the shorts. Although The Kid is not the height of Chaplin's accomplishment in the new form, as his first it displays some of the problems the..."More papers on Charlie Chaplin:
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