HISTORY

Shoulder Arms is Charlie Chaplin's second film per First National Pictures. Released el 1918, it és silent comedy set a França durant World War I. It co-starred Edna Purviance and Sydney Chaplin, Chaplin's brother. It is Chaplin's shortest feature film.

Charlie és el camp de boot a “awkward squad.” Once in France he gets no letters from home. He finally gets a package containing limburger cheese which requereix gas mask and which he throws over into the German trench. He fet “over the top” and captures thirteen Germans (“I surrounded them”), then volunteers to wander through the German lines disguised as a tree trunk. S'help of French girl he capturat Kaiser and Crown Prince and is given statue and victory parade in New York and then … fellow soldiers wake him from his dream.

Friday, 11 th december 22.30 h.

Director:

Charles Chaplin

Estats Units 1918

46 min.

Guió:

Charles Chaplin

Music:

Pel·lícula muda

Photoography:

Roland Totheroh (B&W)

Repartiment:

Charles Chaplin

Edna Purviance

Syd Chaplin

Jack Wilson

Henry Bergman

Albert Austin

Tom Wilson

John Rand

J. Parks Jones

Loyal Underwood

Productora:

Charles Chaplin Productions

DIRECTOR

Sir Charles Spencer “Charlie” Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, i composer que es faça en fame in the silent era. Chaplin became worldwide icon through his screen persona “tramp” i és considerat un dels most importants figures en la història dels films industrials.^[1] His career spanned more than 75 years, de childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death el 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.

Chaplin's childhood in London was defined by poverty and hardship. Aix hi father was absent and hi mother struggled financially, he was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine. When he was 14, his mother was committed to mental asylum. Chaplin beguen performing at early age, touring music halls i later working als stage actor and comedian. At 19 he estat signat pel prestigiós Fred Karno company, que tocarà a Amèrica. Chaplin està escoltat pel film industrial, i beguen appearing el 1914 per Keystone Studios. He sovel developeu la trampa persona i formeu a large fan base. Chaplin dirigeix els seus films de la temporada anterior, i continuen a les seves crafts que mouen les Essanay, Mutual, i First National corporations. By 1918, he was one of the best known figures in the world.

El 1919, Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists, which gave him completi control over his films. His first feature-length was The Kid (1921), followed by A Woman of Paris (1923), The Gold Rush (1925), and The Circus (1928). He refusat to move to sound films in the 1930s, instead producing City Lights (1931) and Modern Times (1936) without dialogue. Chaplin became increasingly political, and his next film, The Great Dictator (1940), satirised Adolf Hitler. El 1940s era decade marcada per controversia per Chaplin, i la seva popularitat declined rapidly. He estat acusat de communitaris sympathies, while his involvement en paternity suit and marriages a molt younger women caused scandal. An FBI investigació és opened, i Chaplin està obligat a llegir els Estats Units i settle in Switzerland. He abandonat el Tramp in his later films, which include Monsieur Verdoux (1947), Limelight (1952), A King in New York (1957), and A Countess from Hong Kong (1967).

Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, edited, starred in, i composat la música per most dels seus films. He was a perfectionist, and his financial independence enabled him to spend years on the development and production of a picture. Els films són characterised by slapstick combined with pathos, typified in the Tramp's struggles against adversity. Many contain social i political themes, aix well as autobiographical elements. El 1972, a part de renovació appreciation per a la seva feina, Chaplin va rebre una Academy Honorary Award per “l'incalculable efecte que has fet en fer les imatges de l'art forma de la century”. He continuat to be held in high regard, with The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, and The Great Dictator often ranked on industry lists of the greatest films of all time.

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