Chapter 417: Chaplin (2)
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At a young age, Chaplin began to be self-reliant, he sold flowers, delivered newspapers, and served as an apprentice to a hairdresser, and tasted the bitterness and tears of life.
Later, Chaplin was working at an amusement park, and by chance, one of the comedians in the theater fell ill and could not perform.
The theater manager rushed to the hospital when he fell ill, and he had the mentality of trying it out, and asked Chaplin to save the scene instead of the actor.
What people didn't expect was that Chaplin put on a fat suit and big leather shoes, and as soon as he appeared, he caused the audience to laugh and performed several times in a row.
In fact, all this is not accidental, Chaplin watched the comedians perform every day in addition to chores, and he often looked in the mirror to practice in his free time, which had a blockbuster effect.
The overjoyed boss simply made Chaplin a professional comedian, and with the increase in performances, Chaplin became a little famous.
Later, Chaplin joined the Carno Theater Company, known as the "Joke Factory", as an actor.
In 1913, when Chaplin went on tour of the ugly country, he was favored by the producers of the Chesston Production Company and starred in the "Cluestone Comedy".
With these comedy shorts, he became a famous comedy star.
In 1919, Chaplin began to set up his own film company, and he was also a producer, screenwriter, director, actor, and composer.
During this period, Chaplin successively filmed a series of classic comedy artworks, such as "Gold Rush", "City Lights", "Modern Times", "The Great Dictator" and so on.
Chaplin was particularly sympathetic to the people at the bottom of his life, and he used comedy to show the helpless and bitter life of the homeless, making everyone laugh in tears and feel the ......
Although Chaplin's status in the comedy world is unparalleled, his private life has always been controversial.
The biggest controversy in his life was his love life.
Because he has had several relationships in his life, each of which is full of controversy.
Her first love was a dancer named Heidi Kelly.
Chaplin fell in love with 15-year-old Heidi at the age of 19, and soon after, he proposed to the girl.
However, Chaplin's proposal was rejected by Heidi, which gave him his first taste of the pain of falling out of love.
In 1916, 27-year-old Chaplin and 21-year-old actress Edna Pevens fell in love.
But their relationship ended just over a year later.
In 1918, 29-year-old Chaplin married 16-year-old actress Mildred Harris. Harris is the heroine of the movie The Wizard of Oz.
It is said that this marriage was a marriage of Fengzi, and Harris was pregnant with Chaplin's child, and Chaplin had to marry him in a hurry.
But when Chaplin got married, he found out that Harris was not pregnant, and he felt cheated.
After getting married, Chaplin had a child with Harris, but the child had a congenital disease and died 3 days after birth.
In 1920, the two filed for divorce, and Chaplin accused Harris of cheating, and Harris called Chaplin abusive......
Eventually, in November, Chaplin paid $100,000 and part of the stock to end the marriage with Harris, following a court decision.
Chaplin's first marriage ended hastily......
In 1924, 35-year-old Chaplin met 16-year-old Rita Grey while filming "Gold Rush".
Soon after, they moved in together, and this time, Rita was really pregnant.
But I don't know why, Chaplin didn't want to marry this woman, he tried all kinds of ways to persuade Rita to have an abortion, but to no avail.
Finally, under the pressure of Rita's family, Chaplin married Rita in November 1924.
Chaplin and Rita had two sons after marriage, but this marriage only lasted three years.
In 1927, Chaplin and Rita started a divorce lawsuit, Chaplin said that Rita was good at eating, drinking, and spending extravagantly after marriage, but Rita claimed in the divorce complaint that Chaplin had affairs with at least five or more famous actresses, and threatened to reveal their names.
In 1928, in order to avoid more negative news, Chaplin, exhausted, paid Rita a sky-high alimony of $820,000 and also spent $1 million in legal fees for divorce.......
This divorce lawsuit greatly damaged Chaplin's vitality and image, and since then, he has been saddled with the notoriety of "scumbag".
Chaplin, who was extremely afraid of marriage, no longer believed in love, and he worked desperately alone, playing the world, and spending money.
In 1932, Chaplin, who was already 43 years old, fell in love with 22-year-old actress Paulette Goda.
Goddard maintained a close relationship with Chaplin, and Goddard also became the heroine of Chaplin's films "Modern Times" and "The Great Dictator".
In 1936, Chaplin and Goddard secretly married, but unfortunately this marriage did not last to the end.
In 1942, Chaplin and Goddard broke up peacefully, they had no third party, no quarrels, no resentment, but they were exhausted, and it was difficult to continue.
As for why Chaplin broke up with Goddard, it is rumored that it was because the two had different beliefs.
No one knows what the truth is, but they have maintained a good working relationship after their divorce and their children are well taken care of.
After Chaplin broke up with Goddard, at the age of 53, he became a lover with Joan Barry, who was about to make his own movie.
However, Chaplin later found that Barry had an eccentric personality and could not be tolerated, and he chose to break up with this woman.
In 1943, Barry gave birth to a child, and she sued Chaplin in court for refusing to raise her own son.
Although the blood test confirmed that the child was not born to Chaplin, the court at the time did not recognize the blood test report and still ruled that Chaplin had a duty to support the child.
Chaplin was unwilling and kept appealing to prove his innocence.
The affair lasted until the following year, when the state of California dropped the charges against Chaplin through legally recognized blood test reports.
But the lawsuit still caused great damage to Chaplin's public image.
"Scumbag, prodigal, scoundrel, bastard!"
Chaplin gradually became numb to this, he did not want to distinguish for himself, he only wanted to have fun immediately.
Real love will only appear in the middle, and there is no love at all in real life.
Chaplin was already disappointed in marriage and love; But love came to his life.
At a chance friend's house, Chaplin met his friend, Orna O'Neill, the daughter of the famous playwright Eugene O'Neill.
Ona. O'Neill is only 18 years old this year, and she has a lover, but she is not very happy with this man in her heart.
O'Neill's father was a well-known playwright, but not a qualified father, and he often skipped his daughter because of his work.
O'Neill, who has not received much fatherly love since she was a child, falls in love with Chaplin, who is much older than herself, and she finds the long-awaited warmth from this man.
Chaplin also found peace and tranquility in O'Neill's body, and they fell in love with each other deeply.
In June 1943, the 54-year-old Chaplin married the 18-year-old O'Neill, and their union caused many people to criticize and understand.
Of all these people, O'Neill's father was the most intense, and he drew a line with this daughter and did not forgive her until his death.
Despite his father's disunderstanding and society's disacceptance, O'Neill married Chaplin without hesitation and became his last wife.
Chaplin lived with O'Neill for 33 years, and they had a total of eight children.
In the past 33 years, Chaplin and O'Neill have been in weal and woe, and their love has always been the same.
When Chaplin was expelled from the ugly country because of his faith, O'Neill did not hesitate to give up the ugly nationality, dispose of their real estate in the ugly country, and moved to Switzerland with Chaplin to take care of his life.
Perhaps they have both found what they need, O'Neill has found the long-lost father's love, and Chaplin has found peace in life.
On December 25, 1977, Christmas morning, Chaplin died at his home in Switzerland at the age of 88.
Chaplin's death completely crushed O'Neill, she was never able to get out of the shadow of grief, she began to paralyze herself, she was drunk, she cried bitterly, she missed......
O'Neill spent 14 years in agony, and one day, she quietly closed her eyes and went to find her beloved husband Chaplin.
Looking back on Chaplin's love life, it was really confusing, difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and there were different opinions.
Whether Chaplin is a scumbag or a good man, I am afraid that the women he has lived with have different opinions.
But now, he is still the comedy star, the focus of people's attention, and every move in his private life is people's after-dinner conversation!
But no matter how big a star is, he has to serve capital, and so does Chaplin.
The little stars of later generations like to rub Guo Degang's popularity, one reason, Chaplin is equivalent to an F, everyone wants to rub it.
Of course, this costs money, and coincidentally, Chaplin also needs money.
As mentioned earlier, he was born in a poor family in London, his father died when he was 11 years old, and he had to work in various low-level occupations in order to live.
He has sold flowers, worked as a newsboy, worked as a handyman, worked as a small worker, and also worked in a factory, all saying that art comes from life, this sentence is true, the life at the bottom made him full of hardships in life, and it is also inseparable from his future portrayal of movie characters.
In the same way, it also made him have a very stubborn pursuit of money.
In his films, there are usually images of some small people at the bottom, reflecting the struggle of the people living at the bottom and the cruelty of capitalist society at that time.
Chaplin's films are not simply funny, but express a kind of dissatisfaction and protest from the people at the bottom.
In 1914, his first silent black-and-white film "Making a Living" was released, which was sought after and loved by the audience, and the theaters were sold out at the box office!
A series of films were filmed within a year, and in that era, Chaplin was like an overnight star who was poached at a high price, and began a new creative path.
At that time, the film company paid an honorarium of $1,250 a week, and as long as the contract was signed, it could get another $10,000, which was an unimaginably high price!
Because at that time, the average worker was only paid two to three dollars a day, and a decent suit and leather shoes could be changed from head to toe for less than $20.
At that time, one dollar was almost equal to 23 dollars in later generations! Keen investors and businessmen have taken a fancy to Chaplin's commercial value!
After signing a three-year contract with the company, Chaplin filmed a series of films such as "Hooligan", "Work", "Woman" and "Policeman" in the form of comedy performances.
The strong irony received warm applause from the audience, and Chaplin became famous!
If the previous remuneration was high, then the company that Chaplin joined later was sky-high!
The much-hyped "million-dollar contract" was created by Chaplin according to his own ideas, and each film will be paid $125,000 in advance before shooting! It was also the beginning of Chaplin's golden age in Hollywood!
In 1917, Chaplin, who had the capital and experience at this time, set up his own studio, and after that, he shot many classic films.
It wasn't until 1923 that the company's first epoch-making film, A Woman in Paris, was officially filmed, in which Chaplin made a cameo as a station porter.
The thirties of the nineteenth century were Chaplin's platinum period, and in 1931 "City Lights" was Chaplin's 74th film.
reflects the story of a homeless man and a flower girl under the serious economic crisis of an ugly country, integrates the real society into the film, and after being released around the world, it is deeply loved by audiences all over the world!
And 1936's "Modern Times" is considered one of the greatest films in the history of American cinema and one of Charlie Chaplin's most famous works!
The story takes place in the ugly country in the 30s of the 20th century during the economic depression, the worker Charlie (Chaplin) works in a factory, and due to mechanical labor and long hours, he goes crazy and enters a mental hospital.
In a difficult life, Charlie and the orphan girl get along with each other, and the warm scene glows with the brilliance of humanity.
At this time, film technology had matured, and Chaplin, who was accustomed to silent films, had not yet fully adapted to it, and even he believed that sound movies would be completely different viewing experiences, and the audience would listen more to the lines than to understand the actors' body language.
So Chaplin's inner resistance to sound movies will break the usual way of performing Chaplin's silent comedy.
In 1940's "The Great Dictator", Chaplin used his usual satirical art performance to scandalize the image of Uncle Xi's leader and speak as a Jew!
The difference is that Chaplin tried to make the leap from silent films to sound films, and this is also the last Chaplin film to maintain the style of the past.
In 1947, at the age of 58, Chaplin filmed the color sound film "Monsieur Verdoux", Chaplin tried to provoke thought-provoking from the perspective of human nature, which is a film that blends comedy and philosophy.
Therefore, Chaplin is not the kind of person who is stubborn and old-fashioned, he is good at being flexible, even if he is reluctant, he will be weighed down by reality.
That's good, otherwise I wouldn't have had a chance to work with him.
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