What's your favorite Charlie Chaplin movie?Follow

I like the one in which he doesn't talk for the whole film.

Edited, May 15th 2009 1:12pm by Shaowstrike

Modern Times or the Great Dictator. But City Lights is great too, though a little sad.

I <3 Chaplin.

I quite like the scene where where the flag drops off the back of a lorry and tries to give it to them.

And the one when he's working on the shipyard. there's something poetic about watching that boat go.

But yeah, the cocaine one is the funniest. Though the automatic-table-eating thing is pretty awesome too.

Actually I was playing off an American stereotype that French people love Jerry Lewis.

City Lights, I think.

I really like City Lights, it's beautiful and touching. But for me it doesn't have quite the same historical insights as either the Dictator or Modern Times. The latter especially, since the subject matter is not necessarily as well known. Modern Times is a great insight into the Great Depression, into life in the 30s, into the dreary abject mind-crushing work of the people in factories... Maybe it's the Commy in me, but it's better than any documentary to understand the spirit and the reality of the times.

The Dictator is bit the same, although it does go on a bit at the end. Still, considering it was made in 1940, before the US entered the war, before the atrocities of the ***** were known, it's quite extraordinary. Almost visionary. At the time it was made, he was denounced as a communist and hated by a lot of people for depicting Hitler like this and making this film.

So yeah, not really like Jerry Lewis.

I'm going with The Gold Rush...especially in these tough economic times.

The Great Dictator.