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Modern Times is a 1936 American part-talkie comedy film produced, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. In Chaplin's last performance as the iconic Little Tramp , his character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world.
Today, Modern Times is seen by the British Film Institute as one of Chaplin's "great features", [203] while David Robinson says it shows the filmmaker at "his unrivalled peak as a creator of visual comedy". [225] Following the release of Modern Times, Chaplin left with Goddard for a trip to the Far East. [226]
Chaplin's social commentary, while critical of the faults and excesses created by industrialisation, also shows support for and belief in the "American Dream". In Modern Times, Chaplin creates a "portrayal consistent with popular leftist stereotypes of wealthy business leaders and oppressed workers in the 1930s."
It was named after the 1936 film by Charlie Chaplin. [ 1 ] Les Temps Modernes filled the void left by the disappearance of the most important pre-war literary magazine, La Nouvelle Revue Française ( The New French Review ), considered to be André Gide 's magazine, which was shut down by the authorities after the liberation of France because ...
City Lights (1931) and Modern Times (1936) were essentially silent films, although they were made with soundtracks consisting of music and sound effects; the latter film also included talking sequences. All of Chaplin's last five films were talking pictures.
Modern Times, a 1936 Charlie Chaplin film; Modern Times (Wenming Xiaoshi), a 1903 Chinese novel; Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s, a 1984 book by Paul Johnson; Modern Times: Photography in the 20th Century, an exhibition held in winter 2014–2015 at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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Chaplin marries Paulette Goddard and feels a sense of guilt and sympathy for the millions unemployed due to the Wall Street Crash (Chaplin sold most of his shares the year before the crash). Chaplin decides to address the issue in Modern Times, but his dedication to this film results in the breakup of his marriage.