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What would Chaplin think of the Internet?


What do you think Chaplin would've thought about the internet?

He was opposed to the new technologies in film such as speech in the new 'talkies' because it would make a distintion between foreign and domestic films. He wanted his films to be accessible to everyone. The 'talkies' happened anyway. Chaplin made some too. The Great Dictator was his best 'talkie.'
We now live in the internet and DVD age. And Chaplin's films are accessible to everyone. Again. Whether talkie or not. Yet, it took technology to create the internet and home video/DVD. Modern Times seems to speak about how machines and technologies were screwing us over. We shouldn't rely on them to make us more human. If it wasn't socialist or communist, as Chaplin said so to avoid trouble, then it was certainly anti-technology.
I don't know. I'm certainly relying on technology to explore humanity by watching Chaplin on video and discussing him on the internet.
Maybe technology doesn't create the problems. The lack of Charlie Chaplins in the world create the problems.
What do you think?


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He would love it.

He could pick up young women.

It's that man again!!

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I thought the same thing when I read this thread title.

Chris Hansen: "Mr Chaplin, why don't you have a seat over there."

- or so the Germans would have us believe...

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