Frame study modern times

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            I  have written this blog for my classroom task. In this blog I have included two movies of modern times .Films study is a important for literature's students.

Frame study , Modern Times :

A frame story is a literary technique that serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, where an introductory or main narrative sets the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories. The frame story leads readers from a first story into one or more other stories within it. The frame story may also be used to inform readers about aspects of the secondary narrative that may otherwise be hard to understand. This should not be confused with narrative structure or character personality change.

In modern times, many writers and actors used to make such films.In which a movie is made covering many aspects of modern times. New literature is written which includes poetry, novels, plays, etc.

In modern times many films making .some movies made silent , some stories described with only acting , no sound in the movie . But that types many movies are interesting to watching and gave a moral message for us . Silent movies has only focus on actions . We can see such a amazing art in that types films.

 "A Picture is worth of thousands words."

       Every scene of the movie and the camera angel  also suggest some symbolic meaning. Moving pictures have their own language to reflect. And it is also part of literature reading.

In this blog we can see ,  Charlie Chaplin 's movie  directed & Produced .

About Charlie Chaplin :

Born: 16 April 1889, Walworth, London, United Kingdom

Died: 25 December 1977, Manoir de Ban, Switzerland

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin  was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, The Tramp, and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. 

Charlie Chaplin's  Film's list :

The Kid (1921)

A Woman of Paris (1923)

The Gold Rush (1925)

The Circus (1928)

City Lights (1931)

Modern Times (1936)

The Great Dictator (1940)

Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Limelight (1952)

A King in New York (1957)

A Countess from Hong Kong (1967)

Here we can discuss about his film " Modern Time " :

"Modern Times" is an American silent comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin in which his iconic Little Tramp character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world. "Modern Times " was launched more quietly than previous Chaplin films. The film opened in New York on 5 February 1936, and in London on 11 February. Chaplin and his co-star Paulette Goddard attended a third and the most glamorous “premiére” in Hollywood on 12 February.

Modern Times is an American silent 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 financial conditions many people faced during the Great Depression — conditions created, in Chaplin's view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization. 

The movie stars Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford and Chester Conklin. It is notable for being the last time that Chaplin portrayed the Tramp character and for being the first time Chaplin's voice is heard on film.

In 1989, Modern Times was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".In 2003, it was screened "out of competition" at the Cannes Film Festival.

Modern Times found him facing very different predicaments in the aftermath of America’s Great Depression, when mass unemployment coincided with the massive rise of industrial automation.Modern Times marked the last screen appearance of the Little Tramp - the character which had brought Charles Chaplin world fame, and who still remains the most universally recognised fictional image of a human being in the history of art.

In Modern Times he set out to transform his observations and anxieties into comedy. The little Tramp - described in the film credits as “a Factory Worker”- is now one of the millions coping with the problems of the 1930s, which are not so very different from anxieties of the 21st century - poverty, unemployment, strikes and strike breakers, political intolerance, economic inequalities, the tyranny of the machine, narcotics. 

Chaplin’s character is first seen as a worker being driven crazy by his monotonous, inhuman work on a conveyor belt and being used as a guinea pig to test a machine to feed workers as they work.

In this movie we can see that when it is the time of lunch that all machines stop but after the stoping work his body moving like he was still working. So I understand that how Machines are control the people. They working 12 hour on clock time so it's also effect on thier body.

The Industrial Revolution was well underway in modern times. So many industries developed. In which the unemployment rate was higher because only skilled people were kept within the industries.

In this frame we can see that Charli had a bad luck. That he had no idea about things. He don't know that he kept a flag which considered that he was the group leader of unemployment, he took the flag for helping them but police arrested him.

Charlie was at police station. By mistake he done well work so he get some luxuries in jail. So when officers said to him now he became free But he said that he was happy there. so that's things are going to think that became an unmployed people was happy to live a life in jail.

Here, we can find that the one female character.she has two little sisters and unemployed father. Here we find the  reflections of that times industrialization.In this Modern Times movie - a young girl whose father has been killed in a labour demonstration, and who joins forces with Chaplin. 

At the  last frame  , we can understand  after lot's of suffering girl asked very significant question that 'what's the use of trying? They both tries to solve thier problems and Live better life but again they get nothing. So Charli gave him courage and said that keep a smile.. let's we start a new beginning. 

Chaplin had resisted dialogue, knowing that his comedy and its universal understanding depended on silent movies. The people of that time has faced many difficulties. Many such questions may have arisen in his mind.  than he said ; life is a long journey and everyone has to live and live well in it.

Let's we have discuss about The great dictator movie ;

The Great Dictator :

"The Great Dictator," Chaplin's first talking picture and the highest-grossing of his career, although it would cause him great difficulties and indirectly lead to his long exile from the United States.

The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire comedy-drama film written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British comedian Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his other films.

The Great Dictator was popular with audiences, becoming Chaplin's most commercially successful film. Modern critics have praised it as a historically significant film, one of the greatest comedy films ever made and an important work of satire. Chaplin's climactic monologue has frequently been listed by critics, historians and film buffs as perhaps the greatest monologue in film history, and one of the greatest recorded speeches of the 20th century.

The hero, a barber-soldier in World War I, saves the life of a German pilot named Schultz and flies him to safety, all the time not even knowing he was the enemy. Their crash-landing gives the barber amnesia, and for 20 years he doesn't know who he is. Then he recovers and returns to his barber shop in the country , only to discover that the dictator Hynkel has come to power, not under the swastika, but under the Double Cross. His storm troopers are moving through the ghetto, smashing windows and rounding up Jews . But the barber's shop is spared by the intervention of Schultz, now an assistant minister, who recognizes him.

In modern times dictatorship was seen in western countries. So a leader was appointed among their soldiers. And even over them a man was put to rule to run the week. Everyone had to follow his lead. She could only clap when asked to laugh and clap. His people followed him as he said. Which is probably what we can see even today in the present time.

 In the movie , He was  dismissed at last from the hospital, the amnesia victim returns to his barber-shop in the Ghetto, expecting to find everything as he left it 20 years before, because he does not realise that he has been away for so long. He is surprised and hurt, therefore, when Hynkel’s storm-troopers smash his store windows and make his new life miserable. He finds a friend in Hannah, a beautiful daughter of the Ghetto, and before long their friendship ripens into love.

 

In the movie  is celebrating his latest conquest by taking a vacation in the country, Schultz and the barber escape from the concentration camp. In the search that follows, Hynkel is arrested by his own soldiers, who think he is the barber, and Schultz sees that the barber is mistaken for the Dictator. Realising the importance of his new position the barber carries out the masquerade and in a speech before the assembled crowds of Tomania, denounces everything that Hynkel stands for and makes a rousing plea for democracy.

In movie we can  find very significant speech by Charli Chaplin. By mistake but it is given by Barber not by Hynkel.In it he said that everyone has Right of freedom. Humanity is important than power, here I'm talking about which power through one can harm other not do good things. Here this speech is apply on t all human beings. He talk about the power and position which used by some wrong person. That's why it is correct that to use your power and position in right way and for people not for you.

 When , I have watching both movies than I can understand  that Charlie Chaplin has try to show the reality of society.

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