The world has seen comedy in its different genre and form ,a bit from classic world of comedy to modern standups ;we’ve seen a lot of it. while sitting in my working desk with a new mug of coffee behind me and a regular sip of classic coffee although I’m not doing any advertisement of the coffee product. I just find it really very interesting with what comedy is like and what comedy has done till date as a form of a very complex art. It’s all about how comedy has evolved from let’s say from the era of Charlie Chaplin as an era of silent comedy to someone like Rowan Atkinson a.k.a. Mr. Bean who is undoubtedly the king of physical comedy of modern times, the world of comedy has seen a lot of transformations. Charlie Chaplin he was a bloke that just took comedy to next level he was a proper artist not and not only a very diligent performer but also versatile artist that words would not be enough if we keep on praising him.
Preparing the next cup of the classic coffee; I find the aroma of the beans in the air with Charlie Chaplin’s marvelous works being displayed in his official You tube channel. I started with one of the best scenes of the motion films; his ending speech of The Great Dictator where he filled the heart of the audiences with all positive vibes portraying an unwanted and the most hated man of the time, Adolf Hitler, Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin nailed his final speech. His outraised hands and pled for his army to strive for peace and prosperity of everyone was a peace filled taunt to the autocratic leader who banned the picture for spreading positivity and love all around the charismatic performance by the Little Tramp.
Lets not ignore the hardship of a guy who was such an ill child that he would be on beds for several weeks in his miserable childhood days. His mother would stand by the window and acted him things happening outside in a comical manner. This is when it is believed that little Charles Chaplin was attracted to the comic genre of movies. The tramp that he portrayed in most of his films was actually founded accidentally in one of the production houses he was working under. He was asked to have a funny makeover for which he dressed and made himself this funny little friend of his that stayed in his life and beyond forever. That was 1914, 110 years back from the date since I am imagining this in my working desk with a splint supporting my broken right hand.
The marvelous Little Tramp which had romance written all over him but was not just still at one place at a time. A young dynamic man with a minimal dressing sense yet a whole-hearted human being who views a young child sufferings in the Kid to eating his own shoes in The Gold Rush, the immortal Tramp wasn’t just a funny pick but Charles Chaplin by heart.
The food fight from The Dictator that summed up the Tramp and made him Hollywood’s sweet nectar that yielded 5 Million dollars in 1940 and was nominated for the 5 academy awards for the same.
The Tramp resorts to eating his boot in a famous scene from The Gold Rush (1925).
The marvelous Little Tramp which had romance written all over him but was not just still at one place at a time. A young dynamic man with a minimal dressing sense yet a whole-hearted human being who views a young child sufferings in the Kid to eating his own shoes in The Gold Rush, the immortal Tramp wasn’t just a funny pick but Charles Chaplin by heart.
His versatility wasn’t just limited in a particular role as “The Funny Tramp” in the movie Circus where he was the hot cake of the playgroup in which he romanticized the scene by offering a boiled egg to the hungry actress who was forbidden by her father to eat after she opposed him. The flow with which screenplay was illustrated, it definitely got in the soul of the audiences.
The food fight from The Dictator that summed up the Tramp and made him Hollywood’s sweet nectar that yielded 5 Million dollars in 1940 and was nominated for the 5 academy awards for the same.
Likewise, The immigrant held the scene of an immigrant and his hardships in the United States for regular meals in the day. The tragic life with hardship showed way for romance and love when he finds his love in the middle of the chaos. The diversity of the funny man and his miraculous stature was up to the mark once again.
Chaplin’s quotes weren’t soft or lighter in one of his quote he said,
“I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.”
For me with the recent sip of Nepali tea that I couldn’t resist is “I don’t believe I deserve dinner unless I’ve done a day’s work.”
The fight scene from the Kid seemed a comic before realizing that the scene first showed the irony of the street child’s and agony they go through to earn a living for themselves. Chaplin as his Funny Tramp helped the kid by teaching him how to survive in this wealthy society.
The fun hidden in one of his iconic character of sarcastic Hitler as Hynkel and the globe dance scene made even the Fuhrer laugh such was the height of the acting of Charlie Chaplin. Similarly, the ending speech that let people to listen to him once he spoke with the common people and his decorated army to help humanity rule the world above autocracy. The picture had it all from the vulnerability of the character to the toughness of the leader having soft corner for the people and the entire world to having faith in God.
The misery and troublesome role as the army in the war with the minimal facilities even for basic things showed the demanding input given by the actor coping up with his own tough script.
This quote of the greatest artist sums up the above paragraph of the tough artist,
“All my pictures were built around the idea of getting me into trouble, and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.”
The Tramp, Our Charlie and everyone’s funny man was an incredible genius and he got his reward by the society that banned him for years but couldn’t ban his art form and 50 years later while on the way to receive his honorary reward at the Oscar;
He stood Infront of his studio that he built without entering inside it.
I would some up this ever going love for the genius Chaplin with the inscription read for him for his contribution to motion pictures for establishing it as an art form of Century. Chaplin was described more than a name, a word in the vocabulary of films and for anyone who has ever seen a movie is in his debt.
His quote was respectfully disagreed and was emphasized that for wherever and whenever there is communication, a screen and an audience whether here on earth and now or some unfathomable future on some faraway star, Time is Charlie Chaplin’s dearest and eternal friend.
It was his introduction before he got a 12 minutes historical honorary standing ovation from a place that brooked him emotionally some 50 years back from that date. And that makes me clean my mug to get prepared for the next sip of coffee soaking in the memory that I have collected knowing Charles Spencer Chaplin from a far distant yet a near eye of research and knowledge.
