{"id":6663,"date":"2019-10-30T14:24:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T18:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calverosdepot.com\/blog\/?p=6663"},"modified":"2019-10-30T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T18:24:41","slug":"day-6-favorite-first-national-30-day-charlie-chaplin-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calverosdepot.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/30\/day-6-favorite-first-national-30-day-charlie-chaplin-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 6 – Favorite First National – 30 Day Charlie Chaplin Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the best things that I like about the films from here on out is that Charlie Chaplin wrote the music for them. Either right as he was making the film or years later. And not just a few years, but a few decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The film I picked for this is one that he wrote the music 50 (yes, 50!) years after the movie was originally released. But I’m not here to just write about the music. This post is for my favorite First National film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that is The Kid. Where Chaplin just rips my heart out, stomps on it, and leaves me an emotional wreck. Because, really, it is hard not to cry at this film. Some sad crying but also some happy crying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Basic premise is this: Charlie finds a baby abandoned on the street He decides to bring the baby up as his own at his home in the city slums. And the adventures begin. The kid is played by Jackie Coogan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love how Edna Purviance’s character of the mother is portrayed. She is visibly torn over whether to keep the baby or not, and then is continuously haunted by his memory. Not knowing that the little boy she befriends is her son. (UGH! Ugly crying!) When she gives him the toy dog, and then a sad long walk towards the camera, and he waves to her without her seeing it… is beautifully shot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Chaplin’s best scenes in any of his films, where the authorities had found out that Charlie is not the legal father and they come for the “Proper care and attention” (take the kid away to an orphanage).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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