packofk9s
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I've seen The Adventurer well over a dozen times and each time it is just as funny as the time before. I repeatedly find myself thinking during the first scenes (where Charlie is on the beach and on the lamb from the police) that those scenes must be the high of the movie and as such that the movie will progessively sink from the close of those scenes on. Yet each time I watch the film I am pleasantly refreshed to the fact that the whole film is equally great.
Chaplin is excellent in the film, and his frequent foil in the early movies, Eric Campbell, is also perhaps at his best.
This film is well worth watching (several times).
Chaplin is excellent in the film, and his frequent foil in the early movies, Eric Campbell, is also perhaps at his best.
This film is well worth watching (several times).
Charlie Chaplin is one of only a handful of men in the hundred years of the movie industry to be worthy of the title of genius. Each of his full length (by modern standards) films are excellent, as are many of his shorter earlier works - Mabel's Strange Predicament, however, is not one of these works. It is void of any meaningful social message (for which Chaplin is well known) it is equally, and sadly, also void of any real humor.
By all means watch most of Chaplin's movies; watch them over and over, for they are worthy of many repeated viewings - but do yourself a favor and don't waste your time with this.
By the way, it should be noted that Charlie neither directed nor produced this very early movie. It is doubtful that even he thought the story or scenes were funny, but one has to break into the business somehow.
By all means watch most of Chaplin's movies; watch them over and over, for they are worthy of many repeated viewings - but do yourself a favor and don't waste your time with this.
By the way, it should be noted that Charlie neither directed nor produced this very early movie. It is doubtful that even he thought the story or scenes were funny, but one has to break into the business somehow.
His Prehistoric Past was one of Chaplin's earliest movies and easily one of his least funny. It is without the social messages that his later films (even the short silent-films) contained, and is also without any truly funny scenes. Chaplin neither directed nor produced this movie, and it is doubtful that even he found it at any point funny.
Charlie Chaplin left to his own creative devices was a genius - plain and simple. HPH is not his project, however, and consequently is a very poor example of a Chaplin flick.
Do yourself a favor, rent a different Chaplin film (almost any will make your sides hurt from laughing and brain giddy from greater social awareness), but don't waste your time or money on His Prehistoric Past.
Charlie Chaplin left to his own creative devices was a genius - plain and simple. HPH is not his project, however, and consequently is a very poor example of a Chaplin flick.
Do yourself a favor, rent a different Chaplin film (almost any will make your sides hurt from laughing and brain giddy from greater social awareness), but don't waste your time or money on His Prehistoric Past.