{"id":6683,"date":"2019-11-06T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calverosdepot.com\/blog\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2019-11-06T16:01:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T21:01:14","slug":"day-7-favorite-united-artists-30-day-charlie-chaplin-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calverosdepot.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/06\/day-7-favorite-united-artists-30-day-charlie-chaplin-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 7 – Favorite United Artists – 30 Day Charlie Chaplin Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

And now we come to his last great era: The United Artists movies. This is the most difficult of all eras because these are (to me, anyway) his best of the best. So now it’s the best of the best of the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s the underrated and often forgotten “A Woman of Paris”, classic The Gold Rush (I prefer the ’42 version, so help me), heartbreaking funny The Circus (so many layers to why I love this), historic The Great Dictator (Hey Hitler, take that<\/em><\/strong>! <punch>. And that ending speech!), Monsieur Verdoux (not your typical Chaplin film, but I love it anyway), and the wonderful Limelight (Chaplin looks so different, it’s like a different actor named Charlie Chaplin is starring it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I do love and adore all of the above movies. But there is one film that I did not name above and that is Modern Times. The silent movie that isn’t quite a silent movie. The first Chaplin film I saw. And where I began to understand why<\/strong><\/em> he was\/is a really big deal. (Basically he did just about everything, and he did it well.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Favorite Scenes<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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In short: the whole freakin’ movie. But I’ll try and break it down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The feeding machine.<\/strong> I saw that and just laughed silly. My sides hurt. My mouth hurt. I can’t look at an ear of corn without letting out a little smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then I found out years later that Chaplin was actually controlling the machine underneath the rotating table. He was literally beating himself up. Anything for the art!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The roller skating scene in the department store<\/strong>. If you have seen The Joker (and even the trailer used Jim Durante’s cover of Smile), you have seen this scene. Where Charlie blindfolds himself and roller skates around the floor…. without noticing that the upper floor they are on is under construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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