City Lights

City Lights is a 1931 silent film from directed by Charlie Chaplin. The Circus (1928) was Chaplin's last film for the introduction of the sound film. This soon supplanted the silent movie era. Chaplin got it through his great prestige in Hollywood managed to, three years after the sound film was used for the first time, City Lights as a silent film to make (on the music and the artistic and financial control of his work after). In addition, a dialogue used briefly at the opening.

Chaplin was known as a perfectionist. He did some scenes more often than other directors would have done. He sacked Virginia Cary Grant's first wife and made the film again with Georgia Hale, his co-star of The Gold Rush (1925). This turned out to be, even with its budget, too expensive, so he was forced to adopt again she is.Although silent films were out of fashion, the film was a great success and one of Chaplin's own favorites. ==Story[ Edit] == Chaplin plays a homeless Wanderer. On the street he meets a poor, blind flower seller and immediately fell in love with her. She sees him for a millionaire. Because he does not want to disappoint her, he keeps up appearances. Meanwhile he saves a drunken millionaire who wanted to commit suicide. The millionaire is very grateful and is good friends with him. When he is sober, he may, however, the tramp no longer remember. This one does in the meantime chores to surgery for the blind woman to be able to pay so that they can get her sight back. So he is Street Sweeper and he hopes a boxing match.

End up paying the millionaire the Wanderer thousands of dollars with which he wants to pay for the operation. However, everything wrong again: when the millionaire is sober, he keeps the Wanderer for a thief. This know the girl still to give the money. He says he's going on vacation, just before he is arrested and for several months the prison in must.

The final scene is considered by many to be the most touching of the film history. The tramp is free and goes to the street where the flower seller, which by now can see, a flower shop property. Every time a millionaire gets in her shop, she asks whether he is the generous man who helped her. When the tramp sees her, he lets his flowers fall. The woman picks up on them for him and when they touch his hand, she realizes who he is. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Receipt[ Edit] == Several famous directors speak warmly about the movie. Orson Welles has ever told you that this is his favorite movie. In 1963 the magazine Cinema asked Stanley Kubrick to what are top 10 favorite movies: he putCity Lights was in fifth place, just like Director Andrei Tarkovsky. Woody Allen also finds this Chaplin's best film.