Thursday, March 13, 2025
Where is love in solitude?
THE TRAMP IN THE TEMPEST
EMPATHY, EMOTION, AND LOVE
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/the-tramp-in-the-tempest-7ba99b9af084
Charlie Chaplin will strut on our screens, maybe not as long as Shakespeare on our stages, but quite for some more time, even beyond our death. Here are four films by this genius, this genial comical clown centering on sadness, poverty, cruelty, and even vicious dictatorial genocide.
MODERN TIMES 1936 — THE GREAT DICTATOR 1940 — THE GOLD RUSH 1925 — LIMELIGHT 1952
From his beginnings to his escaping McCarthyism in the USA and using his British passport to find refuge in the UK. He was not expelled, as some President nowadays loves doing with Latinos, but he was clearly under the menace of some prosecution and prison term if he did not disappear from Hollywood which was being purged most brutally by McCarthy, a very bad “gene” of American politics, but there is always a bad rotten egg in a basket of red apples, and red is definitely not the good side of the road.
So he can die on the stage and the screen before leaving this hectic and unpredictable country after a last caper, a last wave, and a last smile at the irony of his life and career.
Enjoy the trip.
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Jacques Coulardeau uploaded a paper
2025 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 7 Pages
Philosophy of Love, * Cinema, * Anthropology of Death, * McCarthyism, * Sadness
