Comments on: Being Bit By Charlie [Chaplin]

By: Kenji Fujishima

Kenji Fujishima — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:42:38 +0000

I saw far less of this Chaplin retrospective at Film Forum than I would have liked (I still haven't seen The Great Dictator or A King in New York). But put aside what some might consider his penchant for sentimentality...as these clips show, Charlie Chaplin was one hell of a physical comedian. The whole first 15 minutes or so of Modern Times shows off his gifts to brilliant, exhilarating effect.

By: cynthia

cynthia — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:58:11 +0000

1) the singing is not synchronous — it is dubbed after the fact. synchronous sound did not occur until that moment in the jazz singer.

2) the intertitles vs. subtitles is an interesting question — some people think that it stems from literary conventions. you would “read” cinema the same way that you would read a book.

By: Daniel Ezra Johnson

Daniel Ezra Johnson — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:24:23 +0000

working my way through these… had two technical questions.
1) if they can have him singing, why can’t they have him talking?
2) why do they do those intertitles instead of subtitles, the technology is not that hard is it?