Day 9 – Favorite all-time Chaplin movie – 30 Day Charlie Chaplin Challenge

I thought about picking something that I did not previous choose. But I think I’ll choose a previous pick anyway.

Modern Times.

For pretty much the same reasons why I gave in my earlier post for favorite United Artists film.

Sometimes, depending on my mood, it is City Lights, or Shoulder Arms, or The Great Dictator, or if I was in a noir frame of mind, Monsieur Verdoux. Or really any one of them. Over the years some people have assumed my favorite was Limelight since I picked Calvero as my username. Nope. Though I do truly love and adore it.

But most of the time it’s Modern Times.

The official Chaplin site has a great article on the making of the film.

In my MT post, I mentioned the feeding machine scene where I laughed so much I was crying and my sides hurt. A few months after my post, the Chaplin YouTube channel posted the scene:

And a interesting picture of Chaplin rehearsing the scene:

Another scene that I love, and that is the fascinating foreshadowing scene where he gets falsely arrested for being a communist leader:

And lastly, a neat behind the scenes of how the roller skating scene used some special effects:

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