The Gold Rush
1. Relate what was discuss in class or text to the screening
The Gold Rush was a silent film that was produce, written, directed and starred by Charlie Chaplin. This film was released in 1925. In class we discussed about how Charlie use this film to relay a bigger message. Like for example how women are portray in this movie because Georgia was looked upon as a women who went after men of wealth but as we got to the end of the movie you saw what great character she had when she help out the tramp. Also the Tramp who was played by Charlie portrays himself with someone who wasn’t the wealthiest or the most popular one but he had a big heart. We discuss how they were able to capture certain shots and film from certain angles that would bring out the emotions and feelings of the movie without using words and without the right equipment or like of funds to do so.
2. Find an article and summarize the content.
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/5779/The-Gold-Rush/articles.html
In this article it talks about the storyline of how the movie plays out. He talks about the key character in the film, what role they played in the film and which actor/actress played that character. They also talk about the inspirations behind Charlie and why he chose to do this film.
3. Apply the article to the film screen in class
One of the most interesting to me was how Charlie chose his inspirations for this film. In the article the discuss how Charlie was intrigue about Donner and her serious of events she face. In 1846 she was traveling in the U.S. during the snow and during her travel she had to resort to cannibalism just show she wouldn’t die from starvation. In the Gold Rush he reenacts that scene by having 3 strangers trapped in a cabin during the snowstorm wit no food in the cabin. It was said in the article that he also shot that scene close to where Donner was stranded. Also i was surprise how much the film actually cost to make because in class we talk about him not having the proper technology for the film and that he had to find other ways to get the results he wanted. In the article the film was said to cost over $900,000.
4. Write a critical analysis of the film
This was my first film every watching with any sound and I was surprise that I was intrigued in the film. Part of the reason for that was how Charlie uses certain shots to help out with the emotion and feeling of each scene. Like the scene when the cabin was falling of the hill and he keep showing back and forth of the blizzard and the cabin hanging on for dear life on the rope. How Charlie capture on film the fear of him trying to get out of that with a comical approach. Or the scene when he was waiting for Georgia and her girls to come over for the New Years Eve dinner and him daydreaming of how the night was suppose to go. Then it goes back to reality and you can feel the depression that he feels when he realizes that they are not coming. Both of those scenes I felt he did a great job to reach out to his audience without speaking a word in the film.
CHECKLIST FOR PLAGIARISM
1) ( x ) I have not handed in this assignment for any other class. 2) (x ) If I reused any information from other papers I have written for other classes, I clearly explain that in the paper. 3) ( x ) If I used any passages word for word, I put quotations around those words, or used indentation and citation within the text. 4) ( x ) I have not padded the bibliography. I have used all sources cited in the bibliography in the text of the paper. 5) ( x ) I have cited in the bibliography only the pages I personally read. 6) ( x) I have used direct quotations only in cases where it could not be stated in another way. I cited the source within the paper and in the bibliography. 7) (x ) I did not so over-use direct quotations that the paper lacks interpretation or originality. 8) ( x ) I checked yes on steps 1-7 and therefore have been fully transparent about the research and ideas used in my paper.
Tienyin Okorodudu (Shane)
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