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Charlie Chaplin created the infamous "Little Tramp (Derby hat, goose mustache, bamboo cane & very large shoes with the shuffling duck waddle)" character who starred in all but two of his movies.

Chaplin owned his own movie studio by the age of 22. He produced, wrote the scripts, directed, starred and did his own stunts in his movies.

With "Modern Times" add writing the music to his talents. The eternal song "Smile" epitomized the theme of this machine age satire.

In summary this silent (digitally restored picture, sound effects & musical soundtrack) classic "Modern Times" is a great picture to watch. Chaplin pokes fun at the industrial age of machine & automation. He believed the true motion picture was to be a visual experience not a talkie. This was his message to the audience. To challenge our ability to see the humor and drama unfold through his eyes.

One classic scene where Charlie is swimming through the large gears & machine sprockets like taffy shows us the great imagination & genius of Charles Chaplin.

Paulette Goddard (Chaplins wife at the time) plays the post depression poor girl. Indeed his greatest leading lady.

This is the movie to experience the genius of Charles Chaplin.

Chaplin's best
Modern Times (1936) is quite possibly the defining picture of Charlie Chaplin's career. I've been renting Chaplin movies lately and Modern Times is by far the best one that I've seen. The Little Tramp (Chaplin) is a factory worker who has been working on the assembly line a bit too long. Even not on the line, he finds his hands making the movements that he did when working. He goes a little kooky and finds himself taking the blame for stealing bread to protect a young woman (Paulette Goddard). The Tramp also inexplicably steals from a couple of merchants and requests that the police officer nearby pay for it. This lands him in jail. He gets out, but lands himself right back in jail when he appears to lead a communist workers revolt.

The film focuses on the Tramps relationship with the woman as well as his attempts to work in the factory (several different jobs). The funniest stuff is in the factory as Chaplin lets loose with his trademark physical humor. I think this is Chaplin's best and most well-crafted films and if he is only remembered for one film, it should be this one.

'Where's the Boss?'
Caught between the cog wheels???

If you are suffering from work woes, this film is a great one to watch. A co-worker at my last job recommended this film to me. We worked for one of those genome companies, some of us working in a production capacity, doing the same repetitive tasks ad nauseum. The, (in real life), multi-talented Chaplin in this film is a simple-minded factory worker who spends his day going through the same motions over and over again. He does get lunch breaks, but of course his day at work is not without its mishaps. Funny that a 70 year old film about modern times is still not dated.

This film was made in 1936 during the Great Depression, a time when money and bread were scarce, many people feeling the effects. The story line for this movie reveals some of these circumstances, but as Chaplin lives through them, as when he is forced to drink rum bursting out of casks shot by robbers of a department store, one of whom was a previous co-factoryworker, you can't help but laugh, and as the song says, 'just smile'.