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Modern Times
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"Modern Times" is a 1936 comedy film directed by and starring Charles Chaplin that satirizes the dehumanizing effects of industrial factory work and mass production. The film matters as a landmark of silent cinema and social commentary that uses humor to critique how modern machinery and assembly-line labor can reduce workers to mere cogs in a system.
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8.3A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
Cast
- Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp (A Factory Worker)
- Paulette Goddard as A Gamin
- Henry Bergman as Cafe Proprietor
- Tiny Sandford as Big Bill
- Chester Conklin as Mechanic
- Hank Mann as Burglar
Themes
- factory
- ambulance
- invention
- mental breakdown
- tramp
- great depression
- industrial revolution
- slapstick comedy
- automation
- jail
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- silent film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- tragicomedy
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Charlie Chaplin
- Screenwriter
- Charlie Chaplin
- Cast member
- Fred Malatesta
- Composer
- Charlie Chaplin
- Producer
- Charlie Chaplin
- Production company
- Chaplin Studios
- Cinematographer
- Ira H. Morgan
- Filming location
- Long Beach
- Duration
- 99
- FilmAffinity ID
- 726746
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Modern Times poster.jpg
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- Commons category
- Modern Times (film)
- publication date
- 1936-00-00
- box office
- 1400000
- color
- black-and-white
- film editor
- Charlie Chaplin
- title
- Modern Times
- production designer
- Charles D. Hall
- distributed by
- Netflix
- capital cost
- 1500000
- film format
- 35 mm film
- language of work or name
- English language
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- set in environment
- factory
- review score
- 98%
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- Academy ratio
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Encyclopedic overview
Modern Times is a 1936 American part-talkie satirical slapstick comedy film produced, scored, co-edited, 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. The film also stars Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford and Chester Conklin.
Modern Times has won many awards and honors, and is widely considered one of the greatest films ever. It was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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