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…
It's crazy to me that a film released in 1936 called Modern Times is still about modern issues that we can all relate to.
Big corporations focusing on productivity over concerns of their individual employees, the individual mindset that we must work constantly to succeed in life, and the literal depiction of these individuals being cogs in the company's machine; are all things addressed in this film that still apply today.
The film is filled with humor but that doesn't take away from its message. There is no denying that Chaplin was right in 1936, this is Modern Times.
Even though it's not a completely silent movie, it sure proves dialogue is sometimes completely unnecessary.
Sheer genius.
The tale of a man so simple, he thrives best in a jail cell where all individuality and independence is taken away from him, who lives in a society where he is convinced his life's goal is to perform menial, backbreaking labor for the profit of those who think they're better than him. Every moment is overflowing with thematic significance, from the (hilarious) brutal assault by a machine that is intended to feed workers so that they can eat while they work instead of giving them a lunch break - and then the machine being written off because "it isn't practical" - to the working man only getting a job if he shoves his way past other trying individuals to…
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.
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 should start this review with these lines: “A tramp more shining than a lamp – Is all I thought since I was kid – More polite than any kind; more clean and honest and truth than any elegant gentleman dressed with fancy hat and using long canes for his roaring period; a poor man with gentle soul under the light of the cities. A noble man. -- My plan was to write this after watching City Lights. And I DM to my friend and I message to him: “look, what I wrote right now…” and he said to me “great lines” – But, I decided to not review City Lights (I love but I’m not so familiar with it.…
Look, I’m not the biggest Charlie Chaplin fan. I, like many others I know, appreciate his filmmaking more than I actually enjoy it. His brand of slapstick does seem to have a timeless appeal, but I just don’t personally connect with it. I’m not quite sure why that is, but I just don’t. However, with that said, I still did manage to have a good time with Modern Times, the last of Chaplin's silent films. It’s a movie that definitely rises above simple slapstick by managing to convey interesting commentary about the state of rapid industrialization and the plight of the working class, themes I imagine were all too prevalent at the time.
The film centers around the ever-iconic Tramp,…
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…
Modern Times. Fantastic Movie I Really Love This Movie. Great Performances Charlie Chaplin Love It.
for many minutes at the end charlie chaplin bobs up and down miming out a story and singing nonsense lyrics like:
la spinash o la bouchon
cigaretto portabello
si rakish spaghaletto
ti la ti la ti la twah
and it was spellbinding! i was so enthralled! he had the opportunity to sing a song but chose to make the lyrics completely meaningless—and instead he tells the story of the song with the utterly bonkers fluidity of his face and body. who does that?? i loved it so much
this movie is so unrealistic there’s no way now you could be unemployed and still get a gf !!!!
Cant stop thinking about how thick that bread was on the sandwich. Watched this a week ago and still thinking about it
It’s strange to me how silent films can be very entertaining I think I like the gold rush better story wise but this was still really great
My first Chaplin. Ngl I wasn’t expecting the bit where he did a whole bunch of coke in prison.
Always charming and with a boyish glee, Charlie Chaplin delivers another enchanting movie that manages to keep me glued to the screen from start to finish.
Particularly loved the scenes in the factories, where the political issues are still valid to this very day. Apparently the big factory worker is a bit of a masochist since he happily shakes hands with the tramp days after he got his nipples twisted by him with factory tools.
The added spoken lines into this otherwise silent movie kinda missed its effect somewhat and the ending could have been a bit more tied up.
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