Thinking Activity Task

 Frame Study of the two great firms: 1. The Modern Time and 2. The great Dictator 

♧ Introduction :-

The 1970s and after is characterized by literature that is influenced by numerous liberation movements. Race debates have continued all over the world, especially in the wake of large scale migration. The present age or the modern age is also marked by an increasing consciousness of the economic inequality in the world. The writers have also functioned as social commentators in many cases. The present age in literature draws heavily upon the social contexts of multicultural scientist and globalization. It could be argued that just as third world labour and intellect has enabled first world industries to flourish. The arrival of such diasporic and migrant writers has added to the wealth, range and tradition of English literature, making it more cosmopolitan. International agencies control economic policies even as transnational organizations seek to develop alternative modes of aid and infrastructure building outside government work.

♧ Charlie Chaplin and his films  :-

Charlie Chaplin was one of the most important figure in the history of the film industry. He was an English comic actor, filmmaker, director, producer, editor and composer who rose to fame in the era of Silent film. He became a world wide icon through his screen persona " The Tramp." The 1940s were a decade marked with controversy for Chaplin and his popularity declined rapidly. He was accused of communist sympathies. His films are characterised by slapstick combined with pathos, typified in the Tramp's struggle against adversity. 

" Modern Times " ( 1936 )

" Modern Times " is a 1936 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. 

Now, let us see the frame study of the film " Modern Times " by Charlie Chaplin. 

It followed by a symbolic juxtaposition of shots of sheep being herded and of workers streaming out of factory. The viewer is not within narrative time when they watch the sheep. We have not entered narrative time yet once we see the workers. We see the sheep as commenting upon it. As the music carries on, the shot changes to men heading of the Subway and to lower class work. This symbolise that the working class people treated as the farm of animals. 

Through this scene Charlie Chaplin portrays the picture of the worker who worked continuously with machines. They do their work constantly. The result is that they walk  and eat unconsciously as they in the action of working with machines. Sharp cuts begin as massive machines overtake shrunken human. 

Charlie Chaplin wants to say that " City Lights " uses only music and sound effects. Human voices are only heard filtered through technological devices ,the boss who addresses his workers from a television screen ; the salesman who is only a voice on the phonograph. The workers, who work in factories they are not free even in break time. The boss of factory takes a lot of work to the workers. Here in the above scene the boss who constantly see their workers through television screen in the factory. The boss denies Chaplin to smoking. They are not enough time for eating. 

This is the favourite scene of mine in the whole movie. As it was the time of industrialisation, the machines were taking place of the human being. The lower class man who always tried to survive this kind of Giant machines and factories. The boss or the higher class people who wants to live luxurious life, they invented the new machines and experimenting it on the men who worked in factories without thinking about their health and other things. Here in this scene some men who came with new feeding machine and experiment it on Chaplin. The all human activities like drinking water, eating everything is controlled by machines. 

In this scene according to my interpretation I would like to say that in that time the people who have not any work or unemployed and you strike against it then you become communist leader. In this scene Chaplin who even don't know what is going behind him, he just wants to help, he declares as communist leader and caught by Police. 

As it is the film of Great depression of that time because of industrialisation, unemployed man always tensed about their work. The family of working class people and children always suffered from starvation. If they try to find out food and take for eating they declare as a thief. The character of " Gamine " in Modern Times - a young girl whose father has been killed in a labour demonstration, who joine forces with Chaplin. The couple are neither rebels nor victims  but wrote Chaplin,

" The only two live spirit in a world of autonomous. We are children with no sense of responsibility, whereas the rest of humanity is weighed down with duty. We are spiritual free."