A new Charlie Chaplin documentary paints a 'more rounded portrait' of the silent film star's 'complicated' life - including fractious relationships with his teenage wives
A new Charlie Chaplin documentary paints a"more rounded portrait" of the silent film star's"complicated" life - including fractious relationships with his teenage wives.
Granted access to unseen archive material from the Chaplin estate, filmmakers Peter Middleton and James Spinney attempt to get to know the man behind the toothbrush moustache in The Real Charlie Chaplin. "We were struck when we began making the film," Middleton tells Sky News."So many people have this image of the Little Tramp, the guy with the moustache, the cane and the bowler hat, and actually that sort of flattens in some ways our understanding of him."He was an extraordinary, complicated character and had an extraordinary canvas of a life. So it was very much our intention to try and flesh that out and to try and present a more rounded portrait of the man.
Chaplin's rise to an unparalleled level of fame in the early 1900s is the ultimate rags to riches story, his childhood spent in and out of a Victorian workhouse in Lambeth, south London, from the age of four, after his father walked out on their family and his mother was committed to an asylum.After moving to America, his on-screen popularity in silent movies was such that he would eventually reach a film audience of 300 million.
As Spinney explains:"Because the films were silent they could travel all over the world and people from all backgrounds could kind of enjoy his films, so he achieved a kind of fame that hadn't been possible before he came on screen."
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