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    entertained me whenever I felt bad during my university days. Second‚ the movie class allowed me to have much valuable knowledge. In the movies‚ there are so many kinds of people‚ history and culture. When I saw the movie‚ ’Modern times’ by Charlie Chaplin‚ I could learn the situation of the United States in the early nineteenth century. Before I saw the movie‚ I did not know what exactly happened during The Great Depression in the U.S.. The movie class was one of the best sources of my knowledge

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    mother‚ for she was the one who introduced me to my first love- acting. The moment I stepped onto the stage‚ a star was born and the rest is history. …. I had just finished filming in New York‚ when I was approached by my lover‚ Mildred Harris. “Oh Charlie‚ before we leave‚ can we go out east to Long Island?” she asked. “What’s there?” I responded back. “There’s this fellow‚ Gatsby‚ and he throws these grand parties. People from all over come just to enjoy

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    no age for watching comedy films. Even your grandmother and your little son/daughter can watch comedy films as they are not too complicated‚ they are easy to understand‚ and they use common language called comedy. The most renowned comedian is Charlie Chaplin because he knew to use this common language. In those years‚ there was no sound in

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    would achieve if we were all self-employed. Specialization has enabled societies everywhere to achieve standards of living unimaginable to our ancestors. But‚ if it goes too far‚ it can have a downside as well. In the old film Modern Times‚ Charlie Chaplin plays a poor soul standing at an assembly line‚ attaching part number 27 to part number 28 thousands of times a day. In the real world‚ specialization is rarely this extreme. Still‚ it has caused some jobs to be repetitive and boring. In some

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    Comedy

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    quite irrelevant. However‚ over the last century‚ it has often dictated the form in which comedy has taken place. In fact‚ radio was superseded by silent film. The old black and white comedies were weeded out and replaced by slapstick such as Charlie Chaplin‚ Buster Keaton and The Keystone Cops. In addition‚ slapstick anime was also replaced by slapstick audio later. For example‚ The Road Runner and similar anime were popular partly because even after dying the characters could come back to life and

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    As Karl Marx suggests that “material life appears as the end‚ and labor‚ the producer of material life…appears as means”‚ Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times(1936) exhorts‚ in numerous ways‚ that the machine age devoured men both physically and emotionally‚ breeding a new lineage of ‘human machines’. There is no respect‚ time or space for individuality or human emotions in this period of modern mechanical industrialization. From the establishing factory shots to the President’s surveillance cameras

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    simultaneously humorous—mainly because he is partially responsible for these messy situations and they are so over the top. Thus‚ Woody Allen’s preferred reading is to emphasize how comedy and tragedy are not always so distinct. The preferred reading of Charlie Chaplin’s movie “The kid” is that happiness always appears with suffering. It is just like what the movie says at its beginning: “A comedy with a smile‚ and perhaps a tear”. In the movie‚ the main character acts as a poor craftsman who raises an abandoned

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    Charlie Chaplin’sCity Lights‚ subtitled "A Comedy Romance in Pantomime‚" was released in 1931. Chaplin was responsible for the film’s production‚ direction‚ editing‚ music‚ and screenplay. City Lights is a combination of pathos (an emotion of sympathetic pity)‚ slapstick and comedy. In the film City Lights Chaplin uses pathos in the scenes "Flower Girl"‚ "This Time Stay Out" and "Still Hoping". The first example of pathos in City Lights is in the scene "the Flower Girl." In this scene he enters

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    In the realist film “Sortie des Usines Lumiere a Lyon” by Auguste and Louis Lumiere in France also known as “Workers leaving Lumiere Factory in Lyon”‚ the scene of workers mainly women leaving the building is shown by the background music in a jaunty rhythm. It is a black and white film in 46 seconds shown in 1895 often referred as second movie ever made‚ filmed by Auguste and Louis Lumiere whom are famous for producing realist films. As in other Louis Lumiere films‚ realist films tend to represent

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    more closely might appear to be a commentary on politics‚ consumerism and even love. This film is supposed to be Woody Allen’s take on a modern silent film‚ and there are definitely similarities to the silent film classics of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin‚ most notably the physical humor that defined the slapstick sub-genre of comedy. Scenes like those with the giant produce or the awakening of Woody Allen’s character‚ Miles Monroe are absolute gems and caused me to laugh hysterically the first

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