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Synopsis in a factory in the steel sector. Due to the frantic pace of the assembly line, ends up losing the right. After leaving the hospital where he was undergoing treatment, he is accidentally involved in a demonstration and is imprisoned by being mistaken for a communist leader and be considered the instigator of the revolt.
Once free, resumes the fight for survival with a young orphan with which shared his dream for a better life. Things
• Modern Times is the latest film it appears Charlie Chaplin character who had achieved great success in silent films. Although the movie was filmed when it was technically possible, Chaplin did not decide to make him talk. However, it introduced a soundtrack. Note the different kinds of sounds that appear.
• Silent film resorted to various resources to enable the viewer to follow the story: the introduction of short explanatory texts and performances by the actors. Notice the difference in the modus operandi of Chaplin and his colleagues regarding the actors in the talkies.
• The film shows the organization of work during the time that has been called second industrial revolution. This arrangement was called Fordism. To understand what was observed and noted the measures taken to increase the pace of work and the implications these measures for workers.
• Look at the complex apparatus that aims to feed the workers. What was your ultimate goal? Why reject the employer? Directed
in 1939, in modern times also reflect the consequences of a historical fact: in 1929 the stock plunged New York and this was a global economic crisis. In the U.S., businesses closed, workers were unemployed in urban ghettos grew marginalized over a million people crammed into houses of tin and cardboard with no minimum sanitary conditions, and social differences were increased because those who kept their jobs were helped by lower prices. Watching the film ask yourself what is the attitude of Chaplin to these facts.
The argument
Here are listed the most important sequences to reconstruct the argument.
1. Charlot work at the factory. Alternate levels of the workers and the president.
2. The feeding machine.
3. Charlot's madness and his admission to the hospital.
4. The strike, the demonstration and imprisonment.
5. Presentation of the young.
6. Cocaine and its effects.
7. Death of the girl's father and separation of the sisters.
8. Charlie gets out of jail against their will. Work in the shipyard.
9. Arrests of the orphan and Charlot, meeting in the police van and freedom.
10. Dreams of happiness.
11. Watchman in a department store. New dismissal.
12. Real happiness in the cabin.
13. Reopening of the factory and working as an assistant mechanic strike and re-arrest.
14. The orphan has found work as a dancer. Charlie gets a job as a bartender and singer.
15. New police intervention and a new flight.
Modern Times has a lot of episodes, and some perhaps too long or dispensable. "You would take away any? What? Commentary
some highlights
• Despite the dramatic content, we have to a funny movie. Did you find it funny? What scenes made you laugh? Why?
• In the first scene is a flock of sheep, a metaphor, to the cinema dumb, to say something without words What do you think you are referring to? Are all sheep of the same color? Why? • Chaplin introduced
music and sounds, also some minor characters say a few words. Did we hear the voice of the protagonist at some point? What? Why do you think that the director do this? Do you think that movie would have been better if they had entered the talks? Is there a difficult time understanding the argument for not making use of the word?
• In 1929 there was a major economic crisis that led to the bankruptcy of many companies. What were the consequences of the crisis for workers? What action took the workers to cope with the crisis?
• How does the power over the workers? Look at the actions of the police and see if you agree with it.
• Faced with the misery of the workers, the film reflects the comfort and even opulence of other social classes. In what sequence? At one point he turns to parallel dream / reality to highlight these differences. Explain it.
• From the technical point of view include the sets of the first scenes in the factory, and the scene where Charlie carries the tray with the duck. How do you think was shot the latter?
• When it seems that everything is solved, a new police intervention resources left again without key players. How do they react this? Is it a final optimistic or pessimistic? What kind of plane used by the director to convey that feeling? Describe the last picture and explains its symbolic value.
• The original ending of the movie was different: The orphan became Charlot nurse while recovering from a nervous breakdown in a hospital. Why do you think changed? What end do you prefer?
• The final words of the song, known as Titina, consists of a unintelligible or series of words taken from several languages, it was a mockery of the talkies. (Charles Chaplin, WCTaylor of. Ultramar 1993, pa 75). It read:
titin: The spinach or the Tuko / Gigeretto toto Torla / Rush spagaletto / Je le you will Twa. / The der the be pawnbroker / Luserna Sepra How much / E ses confesses Potch / Ponkan walla ponk waa. / Madam ce esteem him. / Voulez-vous will taximetre / Le Jonta you the zita / Je le TWAA you you you you.
Synopsis in a factory in the steel sector. Due to the frantic pace of the assembly line, ends up losing the right. After leaving the hospital where he was undergoing treatment, he is accidentally involved in a demonstration and is imprisoned by being mistaken for a communist leader and be considered the instigator of the revolt.
Once free, resumes the fight for survival with a young orphan with which shared his dream for a better life. Things
• Modern Times is the latest film it appears Charlie Chaplin character who had achieved great success in silent films. Although the movie was filmed when it was technically possible, Chaplin did not decide to make him talk. However, it introduced a soundtrack. Note the different kinds of sounds that appear.
• Silent film resorted to various resources to enable the viewer to follow the story: the introduction of short explanatory texts and performances by the actors. Notice the difference in the modus operandi of Chaplin and his colleagues regarding the actors in the talkies.
• The film shows the organization of work during the time that has been called second industrial revolution. This arrangement was called Fordism. To understand what was observed and noted the measures taken to increase the pace of work and the implications these measures for workers.
• Look at the complex apparatus that aims to feed the workers. What was your ultimate goal? Why reject the employer? Directed
in 1939, in modern times also reflect the consequences of a historical fact: in 1929 the stock plunged New York and this was a global economic crisis. In the U.S., businesses closed, workers were unemployed in urban ghettos grew marginalized over a million people crammed into houses of tin and cardboard with no minimum sanitary conditions, and social differences were increased because those who kept their jobs were helped by lower prices. Watching the film ask yourself what is the attitude of Chaplin to these facts.
The argument
Here are listed the most important sequences to reconstruct the argument.
1. Charlot work at the factory. Alternate levels of the workers and the president.
2. The feeding machine.
3. Charlot's madness and his admission to the hospital.
4. The strike, the demonstration and imprisonment.
5. Presentation of the young.
6. Cocaine and its effects.
7. Death of the girl's father and separation of the sisters.
8. Charlie gets out of jail against their will. Work in the shipyard.
9. Arrests of the orphan and Charlot, meeting in the police van and freedom.
10. Dreams of happiness.
11. Watchman in a department store. New dismissal.
12. Real happiness in the cabin.
13. Reopening of the factory and working as an assistant mechanic strike and re-arrest.
14. The orphan has found work as a dancer. Charlie gets a job as a bartender and singer.
15. New police intervention and a new flight.
Modern Times has a lot of episodes, and some perhaps too long or dispensable. "You would take away any? What? Commentary
some highlights
• Despite the dramatic content, we have to a funny movie. Did you find it funny? What scenes made you laugh? Why?
• In the first scene is a flock of sheep, a metaphor, to the cinema dumb, to say something without words What do you think you are referring to? Are all sheep of the same color? Why? • Chaplin introduced
music and sounds, also some minor characters say a few words. Did we hear the voice of the protagonist at some point? What? Why do you think that the director do this? Do you think that movie would have been better if they had entered the talks? Is there a difficult time understanding the argument for not making use of the word?
• In 1929 there was a major economic crisis that led to the bankruptcy of many companies. What were the consequences of the crisis for workers? What action took the workers to cope with the crisis?
• How does the power over the workers? Look at the actions of the police and see if you agree with it.
• Faced with the misery of the workers, the film reflects the comfort and even opulence of other social classes. In what sequence? At one point he turns to parallel dream / reality to highlight these differences. Explain it.
• From the technical point of view include the sets of the first scenes in the factory, and the scene where Charlie carries the tray with the duck. How do you think was shot the latter?
• When it seems that everything is solved, a new police intervention resources left again without key players. How do they react this? Is it a final optimistic or pessimistic? What kind of plane used by the director to convey that feeling? Describe the last picture and explains its symbolic value.
• The original ending of the movie was different: The orphan became Charlot nurse while recovering from a nervous breakdown in a hospital. Why do you think changed? What end do you prefer?
• The final words of the song, known as Titina, consists of a unintelligible or series of words taken from several languages, it was a mockery of the talkies. (Charles Chaplin, WCTaylor of. Ultramar 1993, pa 75). It read:
titin: The spinach or the Tuko / Gigeretto toto Torla / Rush spagaletto / Je le you will Twa. / The der the be pawnbroker / Luserna Sepra How much / E ses confesses Potch / Ponkan walla ponk waa. / Madam ce esteem him. / Voulez-vous will taximetre / Le Jonta you the zita / Je le TWAA you you you you.
COLLABORATION: Professor Elisa de Armas de la Cruz
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