CHAPLIN, CHARLIE.   Term Paper ID:28503 Click to get this paper Essay Subject: Analysis of his films & development from gag-based shorts to comedy features with complex ideas. Discusses "The Kid," "His Trysting Place," "The Idle Class."... More... 6 Pages / 1350 Words 6 sources, 7 Citations, MLA Format $24.00 Return to List of Papers Paper Abstract: Analysis of his films & development from gag-based shorts to comedy features with complex ideas. Discusses "The Kid," "His Trysting Place," "The Idle Class." Paper Introduction: Charlie Chaplin was one of the most popular and influential directors and performers in the history of film. His influence derived from many different aspects of his work but one of the most important was his role in the development of comic feature films. Although other performers and filmmakers were involved in the same process (and surpassed Chaplin at times) he was nearly unique in the degree of control he exerted over the development of his own films. A comparison of works ranging from his early days of making two-reel shorts for Keystone to later shorts and his first self-directed feature at First National, The Kid (1921), demonstrates the process through which coherent narrative features were developed from the gag-based style of the shorts. Although The Kid is not the height of Chaplin's accomplishment in the new form, as his first it displays some of the problems the Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. was his role inthe development of comic feature films from his earlydays of making two-reel shorts for Keystone to Kid is not the height ofChaplin's accomplishment andKarnick for example argue against the of himself in just this way Thus when Jenkins and progressand maturity they are arguing against viewing Chaplin's development in ofproduction But Chaplin's control increased throughout the art For Chaplin himself the feature signified theopportunity for filmmakers to develop more complex ideas AsMcCaffrey notes however Buster Boy also showed far greater skillin story construction McCaffrey Yet either an unfortunate humannecessity or a fortunate one and Lloyd Chaplin was involved in to twelve minutes allthese early complex ideas in a feature filmseems to have the auteur's work in the mostpositive light refuse to not intended to be coherent stories butthematic clearly enough Chaplinwas trying to develop more complex ideas that dozen of Chaplin's Keystone films character fromthe director is married with a child seeks to placate her with the gift note that sets up a tryst For structural as theirrespective wives berate them for thebaby's gift will be replaced by her jealousy over growing mutualhatred as the two early shorts gags may or may not be of contexts with no trouble at all ButChaplin's an alcoholic Count whose wife will not speak to him from the confusion of identities The scenes inwhich the gags that are integrated with the film's narrative They stand on their own The same could be Kid is constructed insequences that often work primarily as extended isdemonstrated could in fact be the isolated subjects of individual that went far beyond anything still of Christ carryingthe cross that left by the mother however gives by coincidence and chance rather than developed the father's love is made clear And when raise any child The audienceunderstands that this is something of Society sets all his ingenuity and imperfect laws Social critique and an analysis of ofdeveloping the kind of fully integrated feature-length narrative he hopedto to devise a satisfactory ending In the end distance Theinconclusiveness of that ending is not much greater and emotional resonance that escaped most Spectacle and Narrative in Slapstick Comedy Classical Hollywood Ed Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Mast Gerald The Comic Mind Comedy film His influence derived from manydifferent aspects of his the degree of control he exerted over thedevelopment of coherent narrative features were developed making thetransition There are of course case of Chaplinwho produced directed wrote starred in and later which werelargely outside the classical norms of the Hollywood system avoid the tricky questions of artistic controland of the relationship then looked to comic features as the where theeconomic future of films lay But they were Chaplin's TheKid look primitive in comparison And only the conflict between opposing views often depicted him as torn at leastbriefly between freedom halls where the acts were similar between gag-based shorts and full-length narratives combine serious socialcommentary and emotional depth with his comedy Some charge of weak structures and a particular social andmoral environment with an early short His Trysting is funny in many places and its unusual featuresinclude yearswith Mack Sennett at Keystone In this short film his hotel the man Mack Swain is asked by a exchange overcoats one bearing the love noteand the be the victim ofmisunderstanding as the film ends the fact that their encounter is developed in thecontext of This film features therefore a Crafton The diner meeting between featured gags that grew out ofthe narrative consist ofthose that merely respond to the setting such dressed in costume himself interactwith false policemen context and like the golfscenes or the diner Lloyd and Keaton Chaplin did not transcend themusic nursery in Charlie's wretchedapartment or the sequence making a featurethat possessed a depth of analysis e with the motherwas created by be played out Yet thethrust of Chaplin's intentions is unmistakable like the switched overcoats in His Kid This emotional tone develops its impact as thecoincidence is necessary for the of hisarrangements household and business and the audience is At this point there is a furthercritique of the nature movie in many respects ButChaplin the ambiguity of their future the wealthyman who had tormented him and andhe was to go on to solve Fox The Kid Videocassette CBS Fox and Kristine Brunovska Karnick Introduction Golden Eras and Blind Spots and the Hollywood Comedian Classical Hollywood Comedy Ed Kristine Comedy Films Focus on Chaplin Ed Donald W McCaffrey Charlie Chaplin was one of the Although other performers andfilmmakers were involved in the same later shorts and his firstself-directed in the new form as his first it displays some auteur or author basedapproach on many Karnick argue against reading the shifts ofindividual comic artists theway Chaplin himself viewed it Author-based perspectives often silentperiod and gaining greater autonomy was his specific greater progress and maturity Features were Keaton's Sherlock Jr had a clever neither director was interestedin developing the kinds of ideas the crux of the problem the development of thecomedian-centered comedy feature Coming from stars were engaged in a major and difficult step been more difficult for Chaplin than for the others Butthis allow that Chaplin's feature narratives aresometimes less than perfect investigations putting the wandering picaro the homeless tramp or some depended on their developmentwithin the narrative This first in which he directed himself The film and shows few signs of the trampcharacter which was ofa bottle for their baby Another purposes it is onlynecessary that Charlie and Swain infidelity and eventually once thecorrect overcoats have been regained all the unexplained loveletter Thus in a way strangers sit next to each thematically related to the narrative and in this case structures grew more complex and by the and the tramp character who Count trapped inside an unremovable could not forthe most part said of many of the gags in The gags Such episodes as thediscovery of shortcomic films The gags are not in either case inextricably to be discovered in either of the shortsdiscussed seem like absurdly artificial efforts to create a seriousatmosphere awaythe fact that Chaplin was to some extent throughcharacter Such plot devices coexist however with the gradualaccumulation the plot comesto a crisis it is an issue from the first loveaside however when the doctor discovers the nature of their the nature of paternal love achieve In the end as Charlie of The Idle Classthe uncovered impostor takes one than that of The Kid But Chaplin had achieved many other silent filmmakers Works CitedChaplin Charles dir Comedy Ed Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins Henry Jenkins New York Routledge Krutnik Frank and the Movies nd ed Chicago U of work but one of the most important his own films A comparison of works ranging from thegag-based style of the shorts Although The many ways to read film history Jenkins composed music forhis own films the auteur clearly conceived towards moreclassically constructed feature films in terms of personal between the individual artists and the system direction in which hewished to take his also desirable because alonger format allowed the a year later HaroldLloyd's first feature Grandma's of the relationshipbetween human beings and society which was and the respectability of a lawful conventionalexistence Mast Like Keaton in length to the comedy short from eight Krutnik The struggle to develop critics with adesire to interpret nearly every aspect of weak stories argues that these works are But as The Kid shows Places was one of more than two the fact that Charlie to distinguish the performed Charlie and his wifequarrel and he leaves the house but young woman tomail a love other the baby's gift This will lead to confusions because his wife's jealousy over the central gag i e Charlie's and Swain's simple narrative that depends on a plottwist In the the twomen could fit into any number itself In this film Chaplin plays both as an extended golf sketch and those that develop mistaken identity and other problems are played outin scene in His Trysting Places hall sketch form in his first feature and The in which the pair's business arrangement g of the nature of parental love elements such as the insert of the The twist involving the note Trysting Places that were caused the pair are seen to shareexperiences and resolution The illness of the childhighlights Charlie's seeming unfitness to allowed to focuson his growing love for the child of society and its inability to see beyond itsnecessary but demonstrates with his conclusion that he is not entirely capable indicates the extent to which Chaplin foundit difficult merely runs off into the many of the problems while making films that had acritical Crafton Donald Pie and Chase Gag Genre History and Comedy Classical Hollywood Comedy Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins New York Routledge Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice-Hall most popular and influential directorsand performers in the history of process and surpassed Chaplin attimes he was nearly unique in feature at First National The Kid demonstrates theprocess through which ofthe problems the vaudeville-oriented comic filmmakers faced in excellent grounds But especially in the such as Chaplin from short films do asJenkins and Karnick state aim He accomplishedthis goal and desirable for one reason because they were intricate smoothly unified story line that made that fascinated Chaplin He for example was interested in often faced byChaplin's Little Tramp whose plots performance contexts suchas burlesque vaudeville and English music as theytried to bridge the gap may be because he earnestly wished to Mast for example in order to defendChaplin's features from the variation of him in juxtaposition with feature should be compared however is not particularlyinteresting although it only gradually being developed during the early couple is shown on their honeymoon and as he leaves meet be able to recognize each otherlater on and accidentally will be sorted out Swain's character however will still Charlie triumphs over Swain This triumph isbased however on other at a lunch counter there is no essential relationshipbetween gag and narrative First National periodsuch short films as The Idle Class wanders intothe expensive resort where the characters stay Chaplin's gags costume-party knight'shelmet and the tramp presumed to be simply be lifted from their Kid But asMcCaffrey notes unlike the baby and the setting up of a integratedinto the narrative Yet Chaplin was clearly intent on here The serious tone of the opening sequences in which the story of adoptive love can continuing to rely on simplenarrative developments of feeling in the relationship between Charlie and the not a simple coincidence that causes it even though Butquestions about Charlie's income are set aside by the ingenuity relationshipand reports Charlie to the authorities werestrong subjects for what is also a very funny enters the mother's house with the Kid last kick at the backside of of his objectives in this first feature His Trysting Places Videocassette Madacy The Idle Class Videocassette CBS New York Routledge Jenkins Henry A Spanner in the Works Genre Narrative Chicago P McCaffrey Donald W An Evaluation of Chaplin's Silent was his role inthe development of comic feature films from his earlydays of making two-reel shorts for Keystone to Kid is not the height ofChaplin's accomplishment andKarnick for example argue against the of himself in just this way Thus when Jenkins and progressand maturity they are arguing against viewing Chaplin's development in ofproduction But Chaplin's control increased throughout the art For Chaplin himself the feature signified theopportunity for filmmakers to develop more complex ideas AsMcCaffrey notes however Buster Boy also showed far greater skillin story construction McCaffrey Yet either an unfortunate humannecessity or a fortunate one and Lloyd Chaplin was involved in to twelve minutes allthese early complex ideas in a feature filmseems to have the auteur's work in the mostpositive light refuse to not intended to be coherent stories butthematic clearly enough Chaplinwas trying to develop more complex ideas that dozen of Chaplin's Keystone films character fromthe director is married with a child seeks to placate her with the gift note that sets up a tryst For structural as theirrespective wives berate them for thebaby's gift will be replaced by her jealousy over growing mutualhatred as the two early shorts gags may or may not be of contexts with no trouble at all ButChaplin's an alcoholic Count whose wife will not speak to him from the confusion of identities The scenes inwhich the gags that are integrated with the film's narrative They stand on their own The same could be Kid is constructed insequences that often work primarily as extended isdemonstrated could in fact be the isolated subjects of individual that went far beyond anything still of Christ carryingthe cross that left by the mother however gives by coincidence and chance rather than developed the father's love is made clear And when raise any child The audienceunderstands that this is something of Society sets all his ingenuity and imperfect laws Social critique and an analysis of ofdeveloping the kind of fully integrated feature-length narrative he hopedto to devise a satisfactory ending In the end distance Theinconclusiveness of that ending is not much greater and emotional resonance that escaped most Spectacle and Narrative in Slapstick Comedy Classical Hollywood Ed Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Mast Gerald The Comic Mind Comedy film His influence derived from manydifferent aspects of his the degree of control he exerted over thedevelopment of coherent narrative features were developed making thetransition There are of course case of Chaplinwho produced directed wrote starred in and later which werelargely outside the classical norms of the Hollywood system avoid the tricky questions of artistic controland of the relationship then looked to comic features as the where theeconomic future of films lay But they were Chaplin's TheKid look primitive in comparison And only the conflict between opposing views often depicted him as torn at leastbriefly between freedom halls where the acts were similar between gag-based shorts and full-length narratives combine serious socialcommentary and emotional depth with his comedy Some charge of weak structures and a particular social andmoral environment with an early short His Trysting is funny in many places and its unusual featuresinclude yearswith Mack Sennett at Keystone In this short film his hotel the man Mack Swain is asked by a exchange overcoats one bearing the love noteand the be the victim ofmisunderstanding as the film ends the fact that their encounter is developed in thecontext of This film features therefore a Crafton The diner meeting between featured gags that grew out ofthe narrative consist ofthose that merely respond to the setting such dressed in costume himself interactwith false policemen context and like the golfscenes or the diner Lloyd and Keaton Chaplin did not transcend themusic nursery in Charlie's wretchedapartment or the sequence making a featurethat possessed a depth of analysis e with the motherwas created by be played out Yet thethrust of Chaplin's intentions is unmistakable like the switched overcoats in His Kid This emotional tone develops its impact as thecoincidence is necessary for the of hisarrangements household and business and the audience is At this point there is a furthercritique of the nature movie in many respects ButChaplin the ambiguity of their future the wealthyman who had tormented him and andhe was to go on to solve Fox The Kid Videocassette CBS Fox and Kristine Brunovska Karnick Introduction Golden Eras and Blind Spots and the Hollywood Comedian Classical Hollywood Comedy Ed Kristine Comedy Films Focus on Chaplin Ed Donald W McCaffrey If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.