Modern Times: The Chaplin Collection (1936)

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Modern Times portrays Chaplin as a factory worker employed on an assembly line. There, he is subjected to such indignities as being force-fed by a "modern" feeding machine and an accelerating assembly line where he screws nuts at an ever-increasing rate onto pieces of machinery. He finally suffers a nervous breakdown and runs amok, throwing the factory into chaos.

IMDB Rating: 8.6/10

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He is sent to a hospital. Following his recovery, the now unemployed factory worker is mistakenly arrested as an instigator in a Communist demonstration. In jail, he accidentally ingests smuggled cocaine, mistaking it for salt. In his subsequent delirium, he gets out of the jail. When he returns, he stumbles upon a jailbreak and knocks the convicts unconscious. He is hailed a hero and is released.

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Outside the jail, he applies for a new job but leaves after causing an accident. He runs into an orphaned gamine girl (Paulette Goddard), who is fleeing the police after stealing a loaf of bread. To save the girl, he tells police that he is the thief and ought to be arrested. A witness reveals his deception and he is freed.

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To get arrested again, he eats an enormous amount of food at a cafeteria without paying. He meets up with the gamine in the paddy wagon, which crashes, and the girl convinces him to escape with her. Dreaming of a better life, he gets a job as a night watchman at a department store, sneaks the gamine into the store, and even lets burglars have some food. Waking up the next morning in a pile of clothes, he is arrested once more.

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Ten days later, the gamine takes him to a new home – a run-down shack that she admits "isn't Buckingham Palace" but will do. The next morning, the factory worker reads about an old factory re-opens and lands a job there. He gets his boss trapped in machinery, but manages to extricate him. The other workers decide to go on strike. Accidentally paddling a brick into a policeman, he is arrested again. Two weeks later, he is released and learns that the gamine is a café dancer. She tries to get him a job as a singer and a waiter.

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At his new job, however, he finds it difficult to tell the difference between the "in" and "out" doors to the kitchen, or to successfully deliver a roast duck to table through a busy dance floor. During his floor show, he loses a cuff that bears the lyrics of his song, but he rescues his act by improvising the story using an amalgam of word play, words in (or made up of word parts from) multiple languages and mock sentence structure while pantomiming.

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His act proves a hit. When police arrive to arrest the gamine for her earlier escape, they escape again. The gamine despairs that there's no point to their struggling, but the factory worker assures her that they'll make it somehow. In the final scene, they walk down a road at dawn, towards an uncertain but hopeful future.

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Modern Times is a 1936 comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin in which his iconic Little Tramp character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression, conditions created, in Chaplin's view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization.

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The movie stars Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford and Chester Conklin. Modern Times was deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress in 1989, and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Fourteen years later, it was screened "out of competition" at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival

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Disc Two: Special features

Introduction (6:06) — Biographer David Robinson (Chaplin: His Life and Art) narrates this preamble that looks at such topics as Goddard, Modern Times' original "nun" ending and early "talkie" planning (both wisely dropped), and the nuisance lawsuit brought against Chaplin by representatives of René Clair's similar À Nous la Liberté.

Chaplin Today - Modern Times (26:13) — This documentary by Philippe Truffault places the film within the context of Chaplin's concerns about socio-economic strife afflicting industrial societies. Newsreel clips include Chaplin's world tour, his meeting with Gandhi, the Depression's impact on American society (some discomfortingly timely resonances here), and the brief German footage of Chaplin's first-ever utterances on sound film. The historical material alternates screen-time with deep-analysis by Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Dogma 95), who aren't above plugging their own film Rosetta by showing its similarities to Chaplin's.

Outtake (1:42) — A deleted scene of the Tramp attempting to cross a busy street. It's unrestored with no audio.

Nonsense Song (4:15) — Before a 1956 reissue of Modern Times, Chaplin edited out the last verse from the Tramp's nonsense song in the cafe. The deletion truncates the song's gibberish-mime "story" and results in an abrupt cut to the next scene. This supplement gives us the song uncut in its entirety. (For the sake of comparison, the cut remains in Disc One's presentation of the film. The earlier Image Entertainment DVD edition of Modern Times, supervised by David Shepard, restored the complete song into the body of the film.)

Karaoke (4:06) — The nonsense song scene with karaoke lyrics added digitally. Not as goofy as it sounds, really. The lyrics are a treat of undiluted jabberwocky.

Documents — This leads to a collection of tangential oddities:

Behind the Scenes in the Machine Age (1931) (42:23): An antiquarian relic from a distant world, here's a government-sponsored educational documentary on the dreary status of modern factory workers, women in particular, made when Chaplin's concerns about the issue was on the rise. This ode to Machine Age "nationalism" is as worn as an old 78-speed record, with poor audio (DD 2.0), but it is "Presented by the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor." We've come a long way, baby.

Symphony in F (1940) (9:58): A bizarre color promotional musical film by the Ford Motor Company. It's like a live-action Fantasia propagandizing assembly line workers at a Ford factory. Chaplin claimed that Ford's assembly line process was one early inspiration for Modern Times.

Smile, by Liberace (1956) (4:00): In this excerpt from NBC's The Liberace Show, the pianist plays and sings the standard that's based on Chaplin's lovely musical motif in Modern Times. It's pre-glam, pre-camp Liberace, so there's no sequined fur coat or diamond-encrusted Steinway, but he still manages to kitsch up the song while staring into the camera like a cobra mesmerizing a gerbil.

For the First Time (1967) (9:58): This short Cuban documentary, Por primera vez, is the most widely known "cine movil" project that brought films to rural populations. The cine movil crews traveled around the provinces equipped with a portable screen, a 16mm projector, and a generator. They set up outdoor cinemas in the plazas of remote villages (many without electricity) and introduced spectators to cinema for the very first time from a film library that included Cuban films, newsreels, and, famously, Chaplin's Modern Times.

Trailers (7:16) — A compilation of three trailers from around the world. The languages on display in the voice-overs are American-accented English, French, and German. The German promo is from a 1972 revival clearly aimed at serious-minded cineastes. The audio for all four is DD 2.0 monaural.

Photo Gallery — This collection of over 250 production and behind-the-scenes stills, original story notes, the shooting log, and production reports is divided into eight click-to video compilations. Irritatingly, once a compilation begins you can't (at least I can't) rewind it to see again a photo that has passed. In a few cases, the parade of stills is (also irritatingly) interrupted by snippets with audio from the movie:

The factory (5:00)
From jail to paradise (4:04)
Factories reopen (2:56)
Back again! (:36) — Ads, promos, photos from the premiere. It's Chaplin who's "back again" after an unprecedented years-long absence from the screen.
Outtakes (1:40)
Sets and production sketches (12:49) — Includes crossfades between sketches and the final realizations of elements such as the factory dynamos.
Searching for locations (1:37)
Paulette Goddard (1:08) — PR and glamour shots, production stills.

Film posters — Here's a click-through collection of 24 posters for Modern Times from various countries and decades.

Scenes from films in The Chaplin Collection — Finally, this "coming attractions" ensemble presents scenes from ten titles slated for the series (The Chaplin Revue is absent):

The Kid (2:17)
A Woman of Paris (1:57)
The Gold Rush (1:46)
The Circus (2:12)
City Lights (2:39)
Modern Times (1:50)
The Great Dictator (2:32)
Monsieur Verdoux (2:46)
Limelight (2:33)
A King in New York (2:37)

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