1936 Directed by Charlie Chaplin
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
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EASILY my favorite from Chaplin. Can't tell you how good it feels to genuinely love one of his films rather than just appreciate it. Everything about this is great.
I love animated films, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with them, but I remember when my daughter exclusively watched only that genre at a very young age and I was thinking to myself, at what point can I show her more? When will she be ready to explore cinema beyond talking animals and snappy songs?
While she has been beyond that point for a while now, something happened the other day while watching the Charlie Chaplin masterpiece Modern Times that I was not anticipating. There I am, lying on the couch mesmerized by the film when I realized I wasn't alone. Not in the literal sense, I knew the soon to be seven year old was sitting across the…
Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
Metacritic Metascore: 96
IMDb: 8.5
96/100
Release Date: 25 February 1936
Distributor: Charles Chaplin Productions
Budget: $1.5M
Worldwide Gross: $457K
Total Film Awards: 4
SYNOPSIS: The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Chaplin's iconic incarnation of the 'The Tramp' is one of the most beloved characters in film history, and this is by far my favorite 'Tramp' film in the series.
TRIVIA: (at around 1h 20 mins) Charles Chaplin allows the Tramp to speak on camera for the first time during the restaurant scene, but insisted that what the Tramp says be universal. Therefore, the song the Tramp sings is in gibberish, but it is possible to…
Even though it's not a completely silent movie, it sure proves dialogue is sometimes completely unnecessary.
Sheer genius.
The title of Modern Times holds a double meaning to the film. It comments on living during the depression-era, but it also comments on Charlie Chaplin’s career during the transition of talkies in cinema. Dropping this silent masterpiece when the silent-era was in the past and where the modern times had talkies dominating the theaters, Chaplin proved to the people that silent films weren’t just a technological constraint in the medium — they held unique merits of storytelling that deem them both viable and irreplaceable.
why is he chasing women with wrenches. what kinda slumber party massacre shit is this
Modern Times sees Charlie Chaplin bringing a satirical touch to the depression-era, and because of its political views satisfied the House Un-American Activities Committee that he was a Communist. It also has the additional distinction of being the final time that Chaplin represented his exceptionally prominent Little Tramp persona on screen, which has to be one of the most memorable characters ever developed in the annals of film history.
The movie itself is mostly silent and is an exemplification of the strength and capabilities of silent cinema, produced nine years into the sound era when it had monopolised theatres; consequently turning out to be his closing contribution to the period. It summons compassion for its protagonist as well as being packed with hilarious and memorably daring scenes along with a musical score that was composed by Chaplin himself.
i'm always so insanely jealous when i watch a film where the characters stay in a department store alone for a whole night. they're living my childhood dream!!
nobody baby but you and me.
for me, Modern Times represents some firsts: my first feature length film from the silent era, first Chaplin etc., so this is a pretty big milestone for me in my cinematic education. the cherry on top is that even if i had seen every other silent film in existence, i would come to the exact same conclusion: that this is one of the most magical things i've ever seen. i may be hard pressed to find any film that juggles reflections of poverty and economic depression so well with timeless comedy. its paradise.
Decades Project: 2/3 of the 30's
Listen, I'll be honest: I don't know much about comedy. I don't know what makes things funny. All I know is that Charlie Chaplin makes me laugh. A lot. And here he's made another masterpiece to go along with City Lights and The Great Dictator.
What makes Chaplin's films so great is that they make you think just as much as they make you laugh. Modern Times is interesting not only for its satire of modern working conditions (the constant stress of the workplace vs. the relaxed paradise of the jail) and the unseen remainder of capitalist excess (floating through the machines), but also for Chaplin's depiction of the voice as object. As a…
The boom of the talkie era had its beginnings in 1932, but there was one more sterling silent comedy of the 1930’s, and it would of course be by Charlie Chaplin. 1936’s Modern Times is heart-stoppingly entertaining and fascinating at the same time, and timeless. It is our greatest insight into what a thinker like Chaplin would have predicted what the industrial future was going to morph into. There’s the company president doing leisure puzzles and reading the funny pages at the beginning and a distinguishable gentleman wanting his roast duck at the end – this is what white-haired rich bastards looked like back then. The Tramp’s nut-tightening job is so monotonous it becomes for him possessed bewitchery (we think…
