How Charlie Chaplin transformed cinema w/Martin Brest

How Charlie Chaplin transformed cinema w/Martin Brest | The Chris Hedges Report

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4 ай бұрын

Charlie Chaplin remains one of cinema's most iconic figures. His innovations behind and before the camera have left a lasting imprint that can still be seen in contemporary culture. Chaplin's life was also decidedly political, and his alleged communist sympathies earned him a tremendous FBI file and eventual exile from the US. Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and director Martin Brest joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss Chaplin's life and legacy.
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@JaimeFPozo 4 ай бұрын

In the 1950, growing up with no English in a foreign country the city used to set in the open Chaplin movies and I loved them every week along every body else. Today human life remain similar and when I need to reset my emotions I watch him again because I know he depicted life as it is with humor. Thank you for your program on him, Christ Hedges!

@theclassicalliberalphiloso7289 4 ай бұрын

Charlie chaplin has always been one of my all time favorites. Thank you for doing piece.

@joeynickles7962 4 ай бұрын

Brest is right: the mise-en-scene of Chaplin’s work is often astonishing despite the relative simplicity of the camera. There’s incredible detail in the staging, design and performances. One of the most incredible, unique artistic talents the world has ever seen; talent that he combined with the noblest vision of humble, ordinary people and of humanity writ large. The world is too poor in superlatives for the genius of Charlie Chaplin.

@paulkesler1744 4 ай бұрын

When Brest was citing the principal comics of the silent era, he should have included Harold Lloyd along with Chaplin and Keaton. Lloyd is much less remembered today, but he was reputedly even MORE popular in the 1920s than either CC or BK --- at least in America. Lloyd, like Chaplin, was careful to own and preserve his films for posterity --- a number of them are still available in near-pristine quality on DVD (and probably Blu-Ray, though I haven't checked).

@kp6215 4 ай бұрын

I agree because Harold also did physical comedy and my favorite is the clock tower scene.

@jonofiddler9045 4 ай бұрын

Happy to see you doing programs about the arts again. always illuminating.

@cheri238 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, Chris Hedges and Martin Brest, for this illuminating discussion about Charlie Chaplin. A genius in film and acting, directing in all areas. Jean Lu Goddar loved Chaplain, and so did I. Mr. Brest, I loved your movies. Music, art, and creativity are the glues that hold our world together. Who does one like better, Andrei Arsenevick Tarvoskey , or Stanley Kubrick ? I love Igmar Bergman's films. David Lynch, brilliant! Tarantino, The Cohen Brothers, Martin Scorsese, Akira Kurosawa, Spike Lee, Christopher Nolan O.J. Simpson was supposed to get the Terminator role. Instead, it went to Arnold Swartzniger. I did not watch the Terminator, nor Star Wars. Many of our great older film directors and writers, including Orsen Wells 'Citizen Kane, Hitchcock, etc., and many others.

@DerekADempsey 29 күн бұрын

Martin Brest talks about how Chaplin looks into the camera, but not directly. I’ve been talking about this for years. He does it particularly well in the attic throttle scene in The Kid as the Kid is being taken away. This magically puts us in his shoes, so we feel exactly what he’s going through and it drags us into the story for that exact moment and there’s a palpable feeling in our chests and hearts. Toshiro Mifune does it in Seven Samurai.

@Matt-vo1ge 4 ай бұрын

Love this, props to Mr. Hedges 👍

@reefk8876 4 ай бұрын

Pure Genius. Thank you for highlighting Chaplin!

@sunshinesoftly6386 4 ай бұрын

In addition to Kubrick and even before him - can think of two directors who also used the score well-David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock.

@nancyanderson5310 2 ай бұрын

“Creative use of chaos”. What a great concept! Got chaos. Hey, creativity, COME ON DOWN!

@adamgorelick3714 4 ай бұрын

Someone who was well known for his generosity with newer performers was Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. A star in his own right, he helped up and coming comedians like Chaplin - and the two appear in a 1914 one-reeler { title ?} which may have been Chaplin's introduction of the Little Tramp character. I saw a pristine print on KZbin and was struck by how Chaplin seemed already to have the character fully realized. Arbuckle's career sadly ended after being wrongly accused of raping a woman at a party in his home. Though eventually exonerated, the damage was irreparable. Neither Chaplin or Arbuckle could have imagined in 1914 that they would both experience their careers felled by malice and injustice.

@ctkategman 4 ай бұрын

Chris you’re the best! I follow all your work and I did look up Charlie Chaplin recently to see you covering it always full circle my friend!

@heynowls3058 4 ай бұрын

At one point Chaplin hit me between the eyes and couldn’t get enough. Watched all his movies and got it! Love his movies.

@Guitarpima 4 ай бұрын

I have noticed that many people talk in rhythms. For instance, you can play the blues to Star Trek the next generation. You can play the blues to almost anyone talking.

@PhatLvis 4 ай бұрын

Don't forget Brest's greatest credit - he was in Fast Times (the doctor at the morgue who's pals with Mr. Vargas).

@southpaw786 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this wonderful presentation ❤

@killertomato1950 4 ай бұрын

Pale Blue Dot by Bliss n Eso made me a huge fan of Charlie Chaplin. It's an incredible song, and I recommend everyone give it a listen.

@paulkesler1744 4 ай бұрын

As someone's already pointed out, there was actually quite a bit of musical scoring done before Kubrick. Max Steiner for "King Kong" (1933), Franz Waxman for "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), and Bernard Herrmann (and not just the Hitchcocks -- Hermann's scores for "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" were both innovative and notable achievements). There were even silent films in Europe that featured ad hoc scores -- especially notable was Gottfried Huppertz's score for "Metropolis" (1927). However, Brest is probably right that Chaplin was the first to score his OWN movies --- at least to my knowledge. Nevertheless, a main issue is whether a film score is synchronized with the action on the screen, as opposed to simply being "pasted" over the action without having specific relevance to the scenes, characters, and story lines. Chaplin was hardly the first to do this either, but again, possibly the first to do it for the films he personally directed.

@MrDXRamirez 4 ай бұрын

Chaplin was a musician like me. “Smile”, was his big hit wonder. Song is associated more with Jerry Lewis than with Chaplin. I would have scored my own films if I were in his shoes in the silent era.

@richardjarrell3585 4 ай бұрын

And the art of “needle drops”- using pre-existing popular music in films-begins in 1969 with EASY RIDER.

@MrDXRamirez 4 ай бұрын

Great subject, and guest and host fill the void. I also note the physicality of actors in the silents were incredible. Amazing stunts...Keaton...Harold Lloyd. Laurel and Hardy Film has yet to make its own biography of its birth that I am aware of. A documentary is not what I mean. A movie can be made with great detail of WWI but why hasn’t a filmmaker made a movie about the social environment film was born? Altman showed the industry is a character in the story in Nashville. A range of characters floated in a out of that industry. The industry film came to be was less the theater and more the circus before talkies. The circus and sideshows were the opposite of theater as the art of the working masses and theater and Opera the art of the rich. Both art forms were eclipsed by film as “the “ 20th century art form of America at the time.

@CarolPrice4p 4 ай бұрын

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@kp6215 4 ай бұрын

Brilliant 👍😊

@sandrajones1609 4 ай бұрын

What a pleasure ✌️💫

@flow963 4 ай бұрын

When a talented artist becomes genuinely initiate with their muse, music and amusement naturally floods in their imagination and spill via instinct into their work product with genius

@saransong5547 4 ай бұрын

I think autonomy is the word he keeps trying for, instead of control.

@hassanal-mosawi4235 4 ай бұрын

Bless you Br. Chris, well said and explained, please continue expose the hypocrite of the world!

@richardjarrell3585 4 ай бұрын

Timely posting: Chaplin died on Christmas in 1977.

@upstreamer1661 4 ай бұрын

Chaplin the most famous gipsy of all times.

@stuartsmith5146 4 ай бұрын

Looking forward to part dieu.

@keithparker1346 4 ай бұрын

interesting. Im not sure that Brests claim music wasnt really used importantly til Kubricks 2001....what about Max Steiners score to King Kong and Bernard Hermann scores across lots of films. Anyway still interesting

@aliceperes9664 4 ай бұрын

Very good!!

@paulkesler1744 4 ай бұрын

It's interesting that Brest seems to feel music detracts in some way from the experience of silent films. It certainly does when a score is not synchronized with the action on screen or makes no attempt to parallel the mood of a sequence. As a musician, you're either attentive to such things or you're not. Brest's comments may in fact apply to Chaplin's silents (since, as he notes, Chaplin was such a meticulous choreographer), but strike me as questionable when applied to other directors of the era. I believe it was Walter Kerr (author of The Silent Clowns) who maintained that music contributed about 50 percent of the power to a silent film. And there was, after all, a reason why "silent" films were almost never shown without music, which was performed by either a solo artist or an orchestra. It cost quite a bit, after all, to hire an entire symphony orchestra to accompany a film, and such an orchestra was not likely to play just any old thing --- they had to be attentive to what was actually happening on screen, and to "tailor" their music accordingly. More recent silent film composers like Gaylord Carter and Robert Israel obviously did their homework when writing their own silent film scores, and we should take careful note of the research they devoted to the cause.

@nancyhirsch7768 4 ай бұрын

I'd take the genius of Chaplin, Harold Lloyd et al any day over the CGI bells and whistles of today.

@isuriadireja91 4 ай бұрын

Hey, Martin Brest... Whatever happened to you? How come you stopped making movies after Gigli? You've already got more hits to live that down, man... Beverly Hills Cop, Midnight Run and Scent of a Woman. I love all 3 of them, especially Scent. Let's see more movies from you, man...

@biglebowski3961 4 ай бұрын

Recommend Real Charlie Chaplin on showtime.

@user-pt5ei5mt1g 4 ай бұрын

GOAT

@lorincowell6944 4 ай бұрын

Will you mention Louise?

@paulkesler1744 4 ай бұрын

You're talking, of course, about Louise Brooks, with whom Chaplin had a brief relationship (a few months or so). Brooks wrote about Chaplin decades later in her book of Hollywood reminiscences called LULU IN HOLLYWOOD (2000). She wasn't mentioned here, but maybe in Part 2?