4. Chaplin, Part II (2007)

[@deathmakesmoresense5354]

This is one of the coolest lecture in MIT openCoursewar.

[@ivyli1370]

Now that I think about it, the use of the clip of Chaplin skating in the Joker is just brilliant.

[@dakaarys8424]

Those who criticized the film to be a derivative work (borrowing heavily from Scorsese's King of Comedy and Taxi Driver) were clearly not educated (in films) to see that it's not just a homage to a couple of films, but a masterful twist (a metacommentary of sorts) on the age-old story of the tramp (critical of excesses created by capitalism), where the tramp loses his optimism, his resilience.

[@malayali-appreciator-69]

@@dakaarys8424 True. A lot of negative criticism is the result of the critic not knowing the intent of the artist (director, etc...).

[@李愚-f7j]

What a delightful surprise! So MIT is not completely a nerd school?! hahha mind-blowing. Thanks, I really enjoy this video from a link OCW update letter

[@7somekindofsomething]

thank you

[@DominicKearns14]

28:37

[@luisfelipevr1996]

MACK SWAIINNNNN

[@Reionder]

So subtle I almost noticed it

[@andymassingham]

Dominic Kearns Woah!

[@Wired4Life2]

Disagree on the use of intertitles at the end of _City Lights._ They provide a necessary finality to the scene.

[@riynu7774]

"They provide a necessary finality to the scene." what finality? how were they necessary? just vague bs cuz nothing can be bad about something one likes....

[@trfyhrghty4222]

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[@nazaren45]

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[@davidiancrux]

It’s frustrating that he says everything is a critique of “capitalism”. It is as if the words “greed”, or “excess”, or “destructive industrialism” don’t have any part to play in his mind.

[@ThisFrenchEditor]

Maybe it's because you don't realize that capitalism actualy rewards those kind of behaviours.

[@to-ur1ri]

he was also doing this at mit in 2007, where you can devise your own course materials and stuff but not only do universities and colleges completely entirely rely and depend on capitalism, but if some instructor at a big time university or college was openly criticising capitalism as one of the worlds greatest evils, i would be surprised if that instructor held their position.

[@davidiancrux]

okisikow you shouldn’t be surprised because they’re literally doing it all the time to a degree which harms the actual subject they’re supposed to be teaching. Further, capitalism is not an evil. Karl Marx was wrong. We can critique capitalism and how it’s used without accepting his garbage, verifiably incorrect perspective.

[@davidiancrux]

RedImpakt It may reward those kinds of behaviors, but it is not itself those things. Capitalism unrestrained by law is garbage, but capitalism under a functional, sensible, and moral governing body is the most effective tool for eliminating poverty.

[@ThisFrenchEditor]

@@davidiancrux and how can you possibly enforce a "functional, sensible and moral governing body" in capitalism other than with Laws and regulations, have you ever heard of John Maynard Keynes? How many crisis will happen before you realized that unrestricted capitalism is highly unstable and cause crisis which leads to massive damage to the economy on the expenses of working people. Faith in people who disregard you as "consumers" is the lowest level of self esteem.

[@nanwilder2853]

By the 3rd or 4th time he says “imaginativeness”, instead of imagination, I want to scream: “Quit putting ness on the ends of words”! (Ambitiousness, for ambition, among others).

[@samhallzero]

Not bad, but when he enters in gender politics, he becomes a joke. Doors weren't opened for women because they weren't strong enough but to show chivalric protection by the man to her and eventually to the family they may have.

[@tidde7728]

why should men ‘protect’ those women? It directly implies that they are not strong enough, and that men are