The Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection
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Much more than a Comedy!
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The perfect intro to your first Chaplin film, you'll find much more than comedy here in this brilliantly remastered remake of the original 1925 classic that thrilled the entire world in the era of the Roaring Twenties, just before The Great Depression.
While the filmmaker Chaplin has control over every facet of his cinematic career - he was fortunate and talented enough to have full reign under the studio system - his character "The Little Tramp" is as foolhardly and unprepared as the rest of the Alaskan golddiggers.
Casting is superb, with everyone communicating in mime. Classic scenes include his deliverance from hunger by thrusting his boot into boiling water and serving it at the table as if it were prime rib served with spaghetti (the shoelaces). Every emotion is revealed from heartbreak, terror, courage, dignity and love.
A companion DVD answers the evocative question: How was The Gold Rush filmed? Originally, the 18-month filming was attempted in snow-covered Truckee, CA, but inclement weather forced the crew to move to an undetectable backlot in Hollywood.
Chaplin writes that once he developed his Dickensonian "Little Tramp" persona, he "became" the character. Indeed, his own life began in a similar and shocking manner: he was the child of an alcoholic father and a schizophrenic mother, and did indeed rise from rags to riches as in this film.
It's well worth spending 82 minutes to watch this great human being at his finest (1889-1977) who followed his artistic dreams until the end, when he died at age 88 - Sir Charles Chaplin. |
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