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Charlie Chaplin

...Have you guessed who we are ? (Cé)

PRESENTATION (Marie)

Charlie Chaplin was an English man, and an international famous comic actor and film director. His real name was Charles Spencer Chaplin Junior and was born in 1889 in London. He died on Christmas Day in 1977.

He grew in a modest family, and has a difficult and sad childhood with his brothers, what will inspire him in his film during all his career. He did his first appearance on the stage at the age of 5. During his teenage years, Charlie Chaplin chained contracts, and theater troups but his career in cinema really began when he obtained his contract with Keystone studio. Charlie became at his turn a director.

CHAPLIN AS AN ARTIST

Chaplin was a comic actor and film director. Before the end of the first World War he was already one of the best known film star. His speciality was silent films where he used mims, splastics and other visual comedy routins. However he realized some films where there were speaking language such as The Great Dictator in 1940. Majority of his films were a success, and until the beginning of his career, everyone knew him and appreciated his work.

He created his own character, Charlot, a funny tramp. In all his film Charlot keep the same custom, which became a symbol. Through this character, Chaplin knew how to make spectator laugh, and was associated to this personage in the whole world.

He revolutionised cinema, he managed to innovate the cinema’s world which wasn’t usual at this time. All his films stood out of all classical film styles during this years.

Chaplin was also a good dancer, and usually used music to dance in his films which made him rewarded: he received the Oscar for Best Original film songs. By this way, he created a new dance style, which mixed mims and dance steps.

He played in 80 movies and used more than 70 times the personage of Charlot, which represents a 50 years career.

(extract film) ?The Great Dictator?

PERSONALITY, QUALITIES (Cé)

A big personality like Charlie Chaplin wasn't affraid at the idea of criticizing powerful people such as Hitler for example, and he always wanted to pass a message in his films to defend his convictions. He was courageous and a involved person. Furthermore, Chaplin knew how to attract people and make his films popular thanks to his big humour that he always used in movies. He managed to make laugh a all generation. Elsewhere, nowadays famous singers speak about him, such as Ben l'Oncle Soul who quotes Charlie Chaplin in his song and qualifies him a Superhero : you know this song, when this artist say ?J'ai pas l'humour de Charlie Chaplin, j'suis pas un superman?.