10/19/2010

The Gold Rush - A classic comedy of Hollywood

The Gold Rush, the 1925 silent film comedy, they say, the most famous films of Charlie Chaplin. In the history of cinema, film critics and audiences both have always considered this film was Chaplin's classic comedy in true Hollywood silence.

It tells the story of the equally famous and popular character of Chaplin's' The Little Tramp "(known as The Lone Prospector in this film) as he travels to Alaska, hoping to take the Great AlaskaGold Rush. Rather than have such luck and bad weather it would work, he finds himself in a remote cabin in the woods with another gold miner and a refugee who fled blocked for businesses.

One day, when time disappears, "The Lone Prospector" is once again a community near the gold rush. Although the task of nursing takes other hunters cabin, and finds himself in love with Georgia, a saloon girl, whom he mistakenly assumed that she loves him too.

For example, while a large noteComedy, this film is also full of social satire, drama and emotional tenderness.

The film presents a series of famous scenes, the non-recoverable Chaplin to prepare Thanksgiving dinner for himself and the other hunter and hungry to cook and eat a leather shoe (provided by the American firm licorice) and shoes were covered as noodles. In another, the slope of the passenger cabin, as the housing balancing dangerously on the edge of a cliff before departurefall in the valley.

A famous sequence described by many as one of the most memorable in the career of Chaplin, The Lone Prospector shows entertain guests on his imaginary new year dinner piercing two rolls with forks and dancing with them as if they were the legs of a true ballerina . This scene in a 1994 episode of the new era of "The Simpsons" with "Lady Bouvier's Lover" is the title.

The classic comedy is still appreciated by the audience of today and the linesas the fifth highest box office film in silence, and the highest grossing silent film comedy of all time.

The film was reissued in 1942 with the story of Chaplin and a sound score that were made and arranged by Chaplin. He has streamlined the processing of the film to reduce the run-time, changed some minor plot points away, and the kissing scene at the end of the elimination of a subplot in which to believe the character, loved him, Georgia will be deceived. This re-release was a great successaround the world.

In 1992, The Gold Rush, who was elected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress. This film is a must for quiet time to see all those interested in a classic comedy from Hollywood.

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