Comparison Between Two Chaplin Movies

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 One a.m is a short film created by Charlie Chaplin in 1916. It was a silent film which had

no sound in it. One a.m. is the only film that Charlie played every role alone. The film begins

when a wealthy young man arrives at his house at one a.m morning after a night of drinking. He

struggles a lot to open the handle of the taxi, which is placed on the outside. It is so funny how

he works to pull his hand from the taxi window, which he thought had been stuck.

So arrogantly, Chaplin wipes mucus on his handkerchief on the taxi window, thinking

that his hand is stuck. He was doing all this even without the driver of the taxi reacting. The actor

Charlie Chaplin is an actor that is full of comical and riotous laughs due to his physical comedic

and weird facial and body movements. His plays are entirely featuring him alone, and his wife

doesn't appear and making comical reactions of wealthy returning home drunk and staggering.

Chaplin's prowess of character ability of the oblivious cliche of the first order has branded

himself since his acting days of 1916. His solo movies and clips are entirely in the world, and

every person enjoys them.

After arriving home drunk, the play's setting starts where he tries to fetch the door key.

Chaplin looks so disorderly since the space gives the imagery of slippery rugs, a stable table that

does not remain still, and some alcoholic beverages that lie all over. (1)This setting shows how

Chaplin's level of arrangement or neatness is affected by his drunkness. The slippery rugs try to

bring how dirty he is even though he is wealthy. Acting solely without a wife's character deducts

the prominent character of women not enduring his drunkness behavior which is excessive

beyond repair. This shows how his wife could not survive her character, and now he had to cope

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with his problems alone. The stairs in his house almost gave him a hard time ascending due to

his uncontrolled drunkness.

The play had to have a set of stairs to show how drunkness would lame his opportunities

to reach his messy bedroom. We see in the sport so staggering to the extent of not seeing the

stairs, and he looks so disorderly when he is ascending. It is hilarious how he ascends two stairs

and descend three, which makes him take too long to make up to his bedroom. After ascending

to the bedroom, it's so evident that it is too murphy, and it looks hilarious when he tries to climb

into it boring no fruits. A murphy bedroom which has no spreadsheets everything lying on the

bed. The Chaplin bed is a pure mess. It seems that he had no time to make up his bed before

leaving for alcohol. This is disorderly and poor mentally. Chaplin is though he is acting of a

wealthy life. It seems that the play tries to derive the character that has no relation with wealth.
Chaplin's wealth does not make him clean, neat, and principle since we see him so disorganized.

Chaplin is seen having an Orion costume in his silent movie. The clothes look more like a

suit and portray his wealthy character. He has a bow tie and looks like a very well-groomed man.
 The play's lighting is also fundamental, which is full interior lighting. He had a

rudimentary approach to camera placement and lighting to focus mainly on the actor. The latter

is Him, and the improvement area is accessible for adjustments at any time. His way of setting

cameras was so tricky, and whenever he was starting his play, he did not have to wait for

technicians. His main objective was to deliver or convey his audience with his actions and

become so emotional through all his performances. He was not concerned too much with the

quality of elaborate or clean photography, lighting, and editing. From his play or one a.m movie,

the lighting is black and white, which has a distinct color that would tell the natural color of his

clothing. The lighting quality is not engaged more than the quality of information relaying on his

behaviors. (2)This is also done when the camera focuses too much on him as an actor more than

the areas outside his acting background.

Chaplin's focal length lens shows that he did not get away from the camera. Chaplin's one

a.m play shows the trim angle of the cameraman shooting the film. The focal lengths of the

camera of that Chaplin movie one a.m. Appear to be more technical, showing him as roller skate.

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 The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator is a comedy film from America released in 1940 by Charlie Chaplin.

Charlie Chaplin was the one who directed and acted the movie, and this film was the first that

Chaplin produced with sound.

In the Film setting, Chaplin portraits himself as a Jewish barber who is mistaken for

being a tyrannical barber. This film gives an overview of life in the country of Romania. The

government had a Dictator who was ruthless Adenoid Hynkel, who had sized powers. He was a

reflection of Adolf Hitler, who had taken all the nation's authorities into his hands. (3)During

World War 1, Chaplin effected the rescue mission of an officer by the name of Schultz. Chaplin

lost memory when the pane in which they were traveling crashed. After the plane crash, he is

taken to hospitals where he stays for almost twenty heard. During this time, he does not realize

that Hynkel, who was ruthless, had become the dictator of Romania. With the help of the

ministers, he was mistreating the Jews. After the extended stay in the hospital, he thought that all

that he had left twenty years back would still be intact. To his surprise, he found that Hynkel

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soldiers had destroyed all the investment he had made. This ends up making his life miserable.

Costuming in this Film depicts that of Adolf Hitler. From the directors of the movie, the

costumes being worn would describe a nation at war. ( 4) The costuming also depicts that of the

military because Chaplin, who plays the role of Hynkel, wears clothes like those of military

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generals. Such costumes were a sign of authority and power.

In the past, most of the films that Chaplin produced had no sound, so the arrival of sound

brought a lot of challenges to him. Despite these challenges, he used sound to develop some of

the film's scenes. For example, in the film where it involves the rumbling of the stomach, he

devised a way to blow bubbles in a Pail of water.

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