History of Foreign Films

Masterpieces: Gold Rush 1925, City Lights 193 1, Modern Times 1936, The Great Dictator 1940. . . .

Shooted in 1923, the story of looking for a fairy is a sign that his comedy film is maturing, and a complete and profound tramp "Charlie" image is born. This poem, which is rooted in American real life and full of sadness and humor, laid the foundation for his later creation.

? Chaplin

Through short films such as Tramp, Immigrant and Xiaoyao Street, he constantly improved the image and inner quality of this gentleman tramp, abandoned the vulgar taste of Seinert's comedy, and tried to express a more serious social theme around this "failed little guy".

At the same time, it has unique creativity and unconstrained imagination. Although most movies are comedies, the themes and fields involved are different, and the design of the bridge is ingenious and infectious.

1925 The Story of the Gold Rush, known as "a classic work with metaphorical significance", really brought his comic narrative performance, profound tragic factors and lyrical style to the extreme. The image of the gold digger portrayed in the film is a wonderful artistic summary of the fate and feelings of all the little people who dream of success (including Chaplin's own experience). The "eating leather shoes" and "bread dance" in the film are immortal classic pictures in the history of comedy movies. These wonderful comedy jokes are precisely the expression of the protagonist's most desperate mood.

Chaplin's contribution to movies mainly lies in his originality in comedy aesthetics, which greatly improved the comedy aesthetic taste of this era. Realized his own comedy style different from the times, and provided new ideas for the development of later comedies.

With his broad humanitarian feelings, profound social insight, ingenious ideas, and imaginative and infectious pantomime performances, his works have considerable artistic and social value, which has created a peak for mankind that comedy films can't surpass so far. What he created is a "tear-jerking comedy"-a real modern tragicomedy.

His works not only ridicule absurd behavior, but also have the weakness and struggle of small people, coupled with creative physical performances, which has become an insurmountable peak of drama and comedy movies.

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