Modern Times (film)

Modern Times is a film by Charlie Chaplin that arose in the years 1933 to 1936. The film was made in the United States and went on 6 February 1936 in Premiere. In the film Charlie Chaplin plays a poor Wanderer who tries to find an existence as unemployed within a system of scientific management at the time of the great depression.

The film takes the form of a satire, in which not only the working conditions of the mass but also the sound film itself on the grain be taken. The sound effects serve only to sounds of machines display, while the movie for the rest the dramaturgy of the silent film, such as expressive mimicry and written between texts. Even when the main character should sing, it seems as if he has forgotten the text and only a series of unintelligible sounds from his mouth, which is somewhat understandable only by the sign language. This is traced back to Chaplins fear that by the advent of the sound film the art of pantomime, which he mistook as a central skill of acting, would be lost.



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[hide] *1 the story  ==The story[ Edit] == As a flock of sheep comes a big group of workers from the underground and flows within the factory. One of them is Charlie, the Wanderer. In the factory are absurd machines that need to be controlled and the workers are monitored by means of cameras and monitors. Chaplin is working on a conveyor belt and is constantly at the screws.
 * Interpretation 2
 * 3 Cast
 * 4 Music
 * 5 Trivia
 * 6 external links

At one point at him the stop by. He runs the streets, is female passers-by tricky with his tools, the police chased and runs the factory again, which he just stops around thetime clock to operate.

He is fired and sees on the streets a truck for wood transport with overlength passing by, which has lost its red flag. He does bother to make the flag again but it is invaded by a group of protesters. He gets involved in the skirmishes between the protesters and the police and ends up in a prison. There he regains the respect of the Executive Board because he unwittingly, under the influence of cocaine, to prevent an outbreak of the prisoners know. Shortly before his release shall take the film as a prison priest friendly with Chaplin, Cecil Reynolds on a brain surgeon.

He is released and gets a job as a night watchman at a Department store, that he loses because he's on his workplace with a young street girl, whom he had met during the demonstrations, spend the night. The girl finally finds a job as a singer in an establishment where Charlie is also appointed as waiter. As a waiter, he is not particularly successful but as a singer though. Where the statutory regulator of Gamine enters the scene appears, to escape and walk the couple collectively know sunrise. ==Interpretation[ Edit] == The film was originally called The Masses and criticises the Fordism and the loss caused by the advancing industrialization to individuality as result of anonymity and mechanical monotony. The employees are portrayed as blunted creatures, opposite which only Charlie are sensitivity and humanity manages to keep. In this film is the loser in earlier films already impersonated by Chaplin but good-natured Wanderer put down in a modern setting.

Chaplin had for a long time for the emergence of the film visited Mahatma Gandhi, which inspired him to this film. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="32" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Next to Charlie Chaplin Act:

==Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">According to the official documentation is the film music by Chaplin himself composed and arranged with the assistance of Alfred Newman. The romance theme was later given the title 'Smile' lyrics, and became the first recorded by Nat King Cole (1954) and later by, among others, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Michael Bublé, Michael Jackson, Liberace, Judy Garland, Madeleine Peyroux and [http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRobert_Downey_Jr. Robert Downey Jr.]. During the funeral of Michael Jackson in 2009 Jermaine Jackson sang "Smile".
 * Paulette Goddard: street girl
 * Stanley S. Sanford: Big Bill
 * Chester Conklin: technician
 * Cecil Reynolds: prison preacher
 * Henri Bergmann: publican
 * Louis Natheaux: burglar
 * Allan Garcia: Director of the steel plant
 * Gloria DeHaven: sister of street girl (film debut)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">According to the film music composer David Raksin was the music written by him as a first step in his career. Chaplin was often to the melody in the bathroom humming. According to Raskin was his task to make this work out and appropriate in situations in the film. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Donald Duck also has a version of Modern Times.