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The tramp goes to high-class restaurants and dances to get his dog Spot from the pound, passing his hat around at the end.
This one ends bleakly -- or just poignantly -- insisting that we reevaluate the relationship between the tramp and the trick rider.
Was the ending a result of the problems that Chaplin had in making the film, or a product of his personal problems, or the inevitable ending prefigured from the tramp's first falling in love?
This turns dark and perhaps the darkness is implicit in the persona of the tramp and the venue of the circus, but it also has some breathtaking and very funny sequences before that final third.
So much so that when he took her to court that I was ecstatic but unfortunately the idiot had to feel sympathy for this loathsome tramp and dropped the case.
However, on a purely "camp" level, Joan Crawford's performance is well worth seeing as the tramp with a heart of gold, Sadie Thompson.
Ruth was no ambitious tramp conniving people out of work so she could take their place but I guess it made a better story.
His first two Keystone pictures had little plot but allowed his little tramp to interact (chaotically) with a realistic environment, albeit with a handful of supporting comedy characters thrown in.
One scene, in particular, in which the gorgeous tramp and a minor male character are trapped with no hope, and the totally unexpected happens in their actions, but it rings of truth in such circumstances.
I found the acting flat, the special effects non-existent (if you want to leave it to the imagination of the viewer-do radio) and the script ludicrous (example reaction to man in lab when apparent tramp wanders in)
Amazingly, there is one town tramp who is constantly dropping hints at Weiss.
The story is pretty simple with The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) this time taking a stage hand job at a circus where he unwittingly becomes the star of the show with his antics.
Chaplin here gives us just a peek at that serious side of The Tramp that we would see more of in his last two films.
One of his least known, but definitely one of his best, Charlie Chaplin's The Circus is a moving and very funny film about the famous Tramp who joins a circus and brings love and joy to all around him.
At the peak of Charlie Chaplin's success, his 'Tramp' comedies were such solid money-makers that several other film companies churned out counterfeit Chaplin films, featuring actors (including at least one woman) who copied Chaplin's costume, makeup, and acting technique as closely as possible.
A variety of silliness transpires during this short, much of it concerning Mary Lou's new-found desert tramp friend (Huntley Gordon) who is a victim of amnesia, but the ofttimes spontaneous roughhousing between the two teen-aged boys along with their complete artlessness causes the viewer to forget the thinly written script.
Other than his cane, Chaplin is not dressed as the tramp.
The film, as a whole, is rather drab & slow, Chaplin playing the Tramp as a circus act, (not discounting his own tightrope work), but the closing scene, as the circus moves on and he's left alone, with only a picture of his love, and his Tramp walk into the sunset, makes it an emotionally powerful piece to watch, giving us glimpse of Chaplin's inner self, not to be found anywhere else, but hidden beneath his character.
In The Circus, the tramp happens upon a failing circus and inadvertently becomes a huge success when he unknowingly interrupts the show.
The highlight of the film occurs when the tramp decides to impress the girl by substituting for the no-show tightrope walker.
It is divided into 3 segments: 1) 1950s - Demi Moore plays a woman who must either face becoming the town tramp or getting an abortion; 2) 1970s - Sissy Spacek is a woman forced to choose between losing her lifelong dream or terminating her pregnancy; and 3) 1990s - Anne Heche must come to terms with her own choices amidst a world of hate.
Fox's ingratiating presence keeps the movie humming from start to finish; he receives fine support from Warner (her nude skinny-dipping introductory scene is a genuinely sexy corker), Woody Harrelson as shrewd, dashing life insurance salesman Hank Gordon, David Ogden Steirs as hearty, jolly Mayor Nick Nicholson, Barnard Hughes as cranky veteran physician Dr. Aurelius Hugue, Bridget Fonda as aggressively flirtatious man-hungry tramp Nancy Lee Nicholson, Frances Sternhagen as sour old maid Lillian, Roberts Blossom as crusty Judge Evans, Mel Winkler as laid-back, gregarious Melvin the Mechanic, and Eyde Byrde as stern, by-the-book Nurse Packer.
Though certainly one of Chaplin's lesser efforts, 'The Circus' is an enjoyable and imaginative thread of slapstick gags, with the occasional hint of pathos, though not to the extent of many of the Tramp's other feature-length outings.
That's because the character of "the Little Tramp" was far from perfected and the films really had no script--just the barest of story ideas.
You can be sure that, this time next year, they will be paying homage to their ancestors, as they tramp over the ground where child slaves were buried alive for daring to proclaim their humanity.
Think of Charlie Chaplin’s film Modern Times , in which the little tramp is literally a cog in the capitalist machine.
He heard Oblonsky's steps and took them for the distant tramp of horses; he heard the crumbling of a bit of hummock on which he stepped and which broke off, pulling out the grass by the roots, and he took it for the noise of a snipe on the wing; behind him he heard too a sound of splashing for which he could not account.
Clothed in their thin jackets they shivered with cold, but without hastening, straggling along the road with the tramp of a flock.
Maheu continued his pacing, and nothing was heard but his regular tramp which made the floor tremble.
For half an hour he had been looking at the colliers who were returning to work in the darkness, passing by with the dull tramp of a herd.
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