Charlie Chaplin was a deeply passionate and caring man. And he was an activist, making movies with the hope of inspiring change. He wanted to end poverty, and believed it was possible. What things in this film did you see that seemed to hope to help inspire change? Moments that fought for awareness and change in poverty?
What did you notice about the behavior of the wealthy? Are they all the same way? What about the behavior of the poor? Are they all the same way? Share specific examples from this film.
For you, what is the message of this film?
This was a silent film made 4 years after sound came out. Although silent as far as dialogue, how did Chaplin play with sound and sound-effects to tell jokes? Genre folks, did any of these jokes help you think of anything for your screenplays?
I really loved this film it was my favorite one we watched this week. The blind girl seeing in the end really inspired change.
ReplyDeletethe one wealthy guy seemed to be really depressed and always tried to kill himself, he wasn't happy even with money so that's saying something. the wealthy was also all rude.
The main guy character who was poor was really sweet and nice, he was helping the blind girl, the suicidal rich man. I think the message of this film was to always help, help anyone, just be nice.
I loved the sound effects he put in them, funny and amazing.
-Koren
i thought this was a great movie that people can relate too and its a classic in the way the story is.i like how the main charter is a poor and sweet and was trying to help the blind girl he was awesome in this movie and i think the message in this movie is when ever you can help some you should help them ~yami gaia
ReplyDeleteThis movie was interesting. I will be honest I don't think this movie is one of the greats from Chaplin but it's still a good movie. I think what this film suffers is the comedy (DON'T GET ME WRONG I LIKED THE COMEDY IN THIS ONE) I just think the comedy wasn't that strong enough to be laugh out loud funny. Mostly the drunk scenes I just think sometimes it just does not work.
ReplyDeleteBut most of the movie was good. The Acting was still very good from the facial expressions of the actors. It had a interesting love interest I haven't seen a female character who is blind, like I said Charlie Chaplin makes a lot of creative stuff.
I liked this movie it wasn't the best silent movie from Charlie but I liked it.
B+
The things in this film that seemed to help inspire change was how nice loving and caring Chaplin's character was. He was wonderful, how he gave the blind girl 1,000 dollars so she could pay the rent and get eye surgery. It basically tells you how nice you can be to people. Heh, it also shows that getting drunk definitely changes you. The rich guy was really nice, affectionate and such when he was drunk but when he got sober he was awful, mean and greedy.
ReplyDeleteWhat I noticed about the behavior of the wealthy was that they kind of acted all the same. They were very rude, super greedy obviously and didn't really care about anyone but themselves. Like when the rich guy got sober and immediately kicked Charlie out of his house and was all angry. The behavior of the poor is that they're just really nice, and have such great care for one another. Yeah, they basically act the same. Charlie cares for the girl and wants to help her out. The girl really cares and shows a lot of concern for her grandmother.
I love City Lights and it is my favorite silent film ever. Yes, after some intense thinking, as much as I like Modern Times, I have come to a verdict of this being my favorite silent film. Charlie Chaplin is my favorite of the three big silent comedy filmmakers and this is my favorite Charlie Chaplin film. It is a very moving story with funny comedy, and the last scene feels to me as being one of the most beautiful things ever put to film.
ReplyDeleteOn to the questions you actually asked in this post, I think that Charlie Chaplin tried to inspire change for poor people by making the rich people who come and see the movie see how bad the poor have it, and making the poor characters extremely good people, to show the rich viewers that poor people can be good, they aren't all stereotypical filthy bad people.
The wealthy people in this film are opinionated and snobbish drunks. They all seem to be that way. The poor people in this film, as I said a paragraph ago, are very good people that are just trying to get what they want, which is hard because of their position in society, and they are a lot more emotionally deep characters than the rich. They all share those similar attributes, but as they are more emotionally deep they are less similar to each other than the rich. Examples: The Eccentric Millionaire (rich) is always drunk and when he's not he's extremely rude, The Tramp (poor) is very nice and just wants to be with his blind girl and make her happy, paying her rent and paying for her vision surgery and all.
I feel that the message of the film is that poor people are not all bad, they can be good and even great people.
Using sound film, Chaplin got to create his own score for the film and cement it as for sure being the score no matter where the film plays. He also did that thing with the kazoos for the rich people's voices to say that these rich folks were dumb and didn't know what they were doing yelling at The Tramp.
The things in this film that seemed to help inspire change was how nice loving and caring Chaplin's character was. I noticed that the behaviour of the wealthy was kind of stuck-up and greedy (when he was sober). I don't think all rich people behave this way, but there's a lot of wealthy people out there that act that way.
ReplyDeleteThe behaviour of the poor is that they are kind and caring and they care for other people, there might be some poor people that act the opposite of that, but I think they basically all act the same way.
This movie isn't Charlie's best. Nor his worst.
ReplyDeleteIt had a very interesting love story coupled with a nice little story about how a rich man loses practically everything and he seems to somehow overcome the worst. The ending was awkward for me. But I liked how the rich people were all stuck up and "Uptight" And the poor people were the ones to be more down to earth and likeable. It was very interesting indeed.
I really enjoyed this movie, but i didn't enjoy it as much as his other films. I thought the plot was almost seamless, most of it made sense, and i thought the whole subplot
ReplyDeletewith the love thing was cool, and i really enjoyed it.