Charlie
Chaplin,
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer dreaming; A lover, ever hopeful of romance plus adventure ever exploring Over 80 heartfelt films that charmed and elevated viewers envisioning; Writing, directing, composing, producing, editing, starring in Perfecting, … with as 80 takes, until it felt right … perfecting!
Mr. Chaplin as a comic actor, composer, and filmmaker astonishing, Whose silent movies had movie-goers worldwide in wonder exclaiming! His beloved mother Hannah, though talented actress-singer performing, Yet due to coerced teen prostitution prior dire syphilis resulting, Hence, Charlie's childhood in 1890s London was one worth leaving: No father, no money, only by workhouse child slavery & slums surviving; Luckily, from his mother Hannah, Charles inherited her showbiz shining; Chaplin debuting at age 5 as a stage actor and comedian, Going on to star in scores of short and full feature films millions acclaiming. As the first true celebrity of world renowned while still a teen, United Artists movie distribution in 1919 also founding Some of the best silver screen stories ever are by Charles Spencer Chaplin: Easy Street: a derelict becomes a cop to protect his neighborhood and all therein.
Shoulder Arms: a WW1 doughboy hijacks enemy high command via the aid of a lovely French maiden.
The Adventurer: a convict makes heroic rescues, heroic romance, after escaping prison.
The Cure: an alcoholic’s accidents upend a health spa into chaos side-splitting, Gets to like mineral water yet hilariously getting everyone else drunken.
The Immigrant: gives and then later finds his last dime gleaming For love while dining at an overseas journey’s end.
A Dog's Life: Scraps and a tramp, a mean streets team teaming, A well-filled wallet from thieves winning.
The Kid: an abandoned baby finds a new father after being cast into a trash bin, Returning luckily together with the real mother in happy union.
The Gold Rush: a poor prospector, in an Alaskan blizzard starving, Hits it rich using dancing dinner rolls, his true love discovering.
The Circus: an accidental clown hilariously from the police stumbling
Also as an emergency high-trapeze artist, a sensational hit nearly missing, Then from the heights to Merna in love falling, Yet lands to nobly stand aside for Rex and her to blissfully marrying City Lights: a blind but enchanting flower girl ascends smiling With a homeless man’s radiant love blossoming towards the heavens
Modern Times: a factory worker is driven crazy sliding through machinery turning
Yet completes his shift by his soul mate producing.
The Great Dictator: a concentration camp victim, a twin to a tyrant, stands up to stop Fascism, Exhorting our world to be free men, free women fighting for freedom, A Proclamation of High Truth just as true in 2022 as in 1940 then.
For Sir Charles Chaplin, as well as all artists arising, A lifetime of creation means a lifetime of great ideas creating: “Imagining means nothing without doing.
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of simply trying.
All it needs is courage, a little dough, and imagination.
If you're really truthful with yourself, it's wonderful wisdom.
Beauty is the spirit of all things,
An exaltation, a psalm of life and death never ending Of good and evil, of vileness, purity, of joy, pains, all we are feeling, Of hate and love art or nature to our senses in harmony singing. My faith is in the unknown, in all that we do not understand by reason; I believe that what is beyond our comprehension
Is a simple fact in other dimensions.
For even in the realms of yet unknown meanings, There is an infinite power for good in everything.
For the Kingdom of God is within!
Not in just one man nor a group of men but in all men. You, the people have the power the power of creation. The power to create happiness time without end! You, the people, have the power to make this life beauty unending, To make this life a wonderful adventure of doing and dreaming. Dictators free themselves but by endless lies the people enslaving!
Like demons of hell into beasts our children corrupting! I say NEVERMORE to all their death camps and death machines,
In the name of democracy: let there be no more ballot stuffing!
In the name of We the People: Only Justice, Only truth, without exception! Let there be human rights in every farmland and town, city and nation!
Let us fight to free the world unto new liberation
To do away with greed, with hateful intolerance, with cruel discrimination. Let us fight for a world of reason and compassion,
A world where science and the arts will progress ever continuing To inspire ever greater visions into the real communities of heaven Brothers and sisters, let us all work and live together in happy unison!”
Ever alive with the Spirit of Imagination—Charlie Chaplin!
