How Charlie Chaplin plans to reform serious film drama
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Date
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October 21, 1923
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Description
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Los Angeles is competing with Charlie Chaplin's soul. If the movie hotbed has any artistic values, he has purposefully set out to violate them. He wants to "create a new trail on the screen," as he puts it, but he doesn't say this with a grand gesture that suggests he is also a pioneer, a Daniel Boone of the movies.
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Scholarly Significance
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One of those astonishing transformations that happens in spite of everything is the development of the top slapstick, knockabout comedian of the movie into a leading artist of the screen. Mr. Chaplin has a message, but if it were suggested that he might be a prophet, he might curl up in his chair and grin self-consciously.
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Cataloguer
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Mikako Maeda
