Films Screening of The Charlie Chaplin Movies.

 Hello friends!

I am student of English Department, MKBU. This blog based on my Thinking Activity given by our prof. Dilip Barad sir. This is  Film Screening of the Chalie Chaplin Movies "The Modern Time" and "The Great Dictator". 

We can see the movie in particular reason that time we realized that which kind of this movie you watch. Some movies give to hidden message through dialogue, characters, some important images use that and telling the truth, reality of the Society. Martin Scorsese say to cinema; 

"Cinema is a Matter of What's in the Frame and What's Out"

Gulzar say that...

"Cinema is a reflection of your Society"

It means cinema has started reflecting every part of your life  today. Let's discuss about the brief introduction of  the film "The Modern Time".

The Modern Time:-

The Modern Time is a 1936 American silent comedy film written, directed by Charlie Chaplin. He proform to the main character. He presented the role of the character Little Tramp. Here the two protagonist first Little Tramp and another woman character Ellen. Both charcter are struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world.

This film, which was set during the Great Depression, centres on a luckless factory workers. Charlie Chaplin show to the picture of the working class people, who followed the rules of the factory owner. I watch the  movie this time I find out same point like;

-Inequality 

-Rich Poov Divided 

-Welfare 

Here the machine is more important that to people. We find the mechanical life. Let's discuss about the frame Study of this movie. Watch the film it is easy to understand but frame Study is more difficult to find hidden message. 

The first Frame of this film it is Clock. We can understand that the clock  is show to time. Chaplin use that image and he tries to say something. He presented the industrialization. In modern time to developed technology and machine. This frame represent of the two type of class divine here;

-Working Class 

-Rich Class.

Industrialization is most famous for the modern time. Time was change it means the sun rising but this sun rising only for the industrialist home. Rich become the rich and poor became a poor. Because of richness, they gover many areas of the society and they can create new norms and regulations which restrict the other lower class of people. Village Life is very simple because the people are not use of clock and calander . All are live in natural like all depends on sun East and West. This show to time and work on that time not a clock and calander. And invention of clock and calender that people not live in natural we are depend on Robertic, artificial life rather than natural. We followed the machanical life. Time are change not working class people but the industrial people.

Another frame like sheep and factories workers. Factories and mill were being equipped with new inventions of tecnology and machines were occupying the human jobs. Due to this unemployment many people were roaming like sheep without direction. A word can used for those people like Sheeple.

This is most interesting frame this film. If u are thing who is powerful of World. Of course tale u muscular body. In present time we are became a wrong but in ancient time that is right. In present time Mind power is more important than muscles. Here we find that the muscular man lision to weak body persons but actually he was not a weak but it is powerful man of the money, Mind.  I remember the sentence

"Big Brother is Watching you"

This sentence from the 1984 the novel by the George Orwell.  Here the muscular man is not important but intellectual mind is important. Othello Shakespeare work we know that the Othello is a very powerful, muscular man but in modern time intellectual mind like Iago is most valuable. This scene makes one think that mind power is greter than muscles power. Moreover, one can say that money power is more greater.

Another frame like the protagonist Ellen. She met the Chaplin and he tries to fulfilled the desire of Ellen. Chaplin get a job on mall and many facility there. He think about his and her life like richest person's life and both are enjoying the all this place of mall and feel like richest person. We find here to working class people are desire but his/her desire not fulfilled in their life. Working class people are hope to live a happy life and he sacrificed their desire. Rich people hungry for money and more success but another side lowerclass people hungry for the basic need like food, home clothes for shelter. But there are not able to fulfilled those desire and struggle for there values, identity and any other things..

This frame represent to the overload of work can make one mad. In factory owner give to order and commands more and so and so work. But that time persons can not conscious his mind for his work and who always confusion to which work done in firstly. After he suffers from the dipression and make a madness.

Eugene O'Neil play "The Hiary Ape" is a best example of the protagonist madness. Yank rejected his owner he goes to the gorilla cage shakes hand with the gorilla but the gorilla kill him. Yank and Mildred have lost the creativity. 

Machine and technology tendered life soulless and mechanical. Man no longer feels that he is an important part of creative process.

The Great Dictator:-

It is another famous movie by Charlie Chaplin. He is first Hollywood filmmaker to continues to make silent films well into the period of sound films, Chaplin made this his first true sound film.

The Great Dictator was popular with audience becoming Chapin's most commercially successful film released in 1940. Chaplin portrayed a Jewish barber who is mistaken for a tyrannical doctor. Here the protagonist of the Hynkle, standing in for Hitler, satirizing anti semitism. It was Chaplin most successful film at the box office.

This film is also remembered for the historical significance. The film was also presenved by the National Film Registry of the United States in 1997, because..

"The film is being culturally, aesthetically and historically significant"

Chaplin himself admits in his autobiography that..

"Had I know pf the actual horrors of the German concentration camp, I could not have made 'The Great Dictator' I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis".

Let's discuss about the frame Study of this movie:-

The first frame is the shop of Jew. This frame represent predominant prejudice towards Jews. Of we look at the historical context of why there is too much hatred towards Jews. Hitler are not like to jees and order to his army to write down the name of his how his is Jews. It n easy to identifed this is a Jews house.vthos frame explains, which of there is any shop of Jew then authority overpowered that shop and can write that is the shop of Jew in a 'Capital word' the character of the Jew barbar we find that the he against this kind on power and authority. But not listen his vioce and panish it. The movie try to condemned the very idea of anti-Semitism.

Here we can see how Hynkle is mad for his photo and idol. The photo and idol represented the authority and good impression of the leader. Hynkel desire to became very  to famous not his country but in world. We can see this frame artist are not work in own time, own happiness in his passion but the Hynkel is free that time we draw his panting and idol. It means whole run by the authority power of the man.

 This frame is interesting and most famous scene in this movie. This frame represent by the Hynkel but not actually as Hynkel, it is a Jews barbar. It is last speech in this film. So here we find that the speech was given by barbar not by Hynkel. The double role of Chaplin makes significant in the film.

Here we find that the starting line in the speech.

"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor

That's not my business

I don't want to rule or conquer anyone

I should like to help everyone if possible

Jew, Gentile, Black Man, White

We all want to help one another, human beings are like that

We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery

We don't want to hate and despise one another"

Here we find that the Hynkel vioce of his common people. And try to develop humanity, brotherhood. He love to his people. This speech give to hopeness of the common people.

Last words is so inspiration..this words touch on my heart.

"You are not machines!

You are not cattle!

You are men!

You have the love of humanity in your hearts!

You don't hate!

Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural!"

Conclusion:-

Here wind up those frame Study of both film. The Modern Time presented the voice of hope, and hope become the way of new life. The Great Dictator is Film  voice of common people and how can suffer from the powerful, authority we find it. Both films Caplin use of the satirical tone but way of the comic. If we find the meaning that time to understand about the common people and how it suffered a lot of authority. Common become a voiceless. This is my interpretation on those movies.

Thank you.

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