I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't even mention Buster Keaton in this movie, which they should have.
shareThey also didn't mention Harold Lloyd.
Probably because it was a movie about Charles Chaplin, not the silent era in general?
I agree. they should have, even in passing, because 1. from what I understand they were friends, frequenting the same people and all, 2. Chaplin and Keaton would exchange material from each other.
But given that this is more about his life than his career, I sort of understand the snub.
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Right..he was in Limelight. The part was given to him partly to help him get out of a career slump at the time.
Did not mention his other half brother Wheeler Dryden either... Spencer's (Jefferson Airplane) father. He was a comedian in Europe when he realized Charlie was his brother. He contacted Edna Purviance who contacted Charlie. He came to America and reunited with his bros and subsequently worked with Chaplin.
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"Tombstone" left out two Earp brothers (Warren and Newton), "Yankee Doodle Dandy" dropped the first Mrs. George M. Cohan and had him playing FDR on Broadway in the 40's instead of the 30's, and "Night and Day" was a complete whitewash of Cole Porter's life, not to mention that his friend/lover Monty Wooley starred as himself, forcing the writers to change him from Porter's real-life fellow Yale student into his on-screen professor instead.
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And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written:KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
Why? They also didn't mention, say, Frank Capra. Should they have? See the name of this film was "Chaplin".
shareChaplin, Lloyd and Keaton were the biggies of the silent movie era. It would have been nice, even just to mention he and Keaton were in Limelight together. BTW, in the scene where they performed together it is noted through many sources that Keaton stole the show and, having seen it, I agree!
But yes, this is Chaplin - so I see the point.
Sad thing is that lots of people don't know who Keaton is anymore... and it's even worse for Lloyd 😞
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The movie is incredibly poor in details, it's the collection of Chaplin memes. Remember the story of how Chaplin thought Tramp would be dead is he talks? It's in the movie word by word. Everyone is calling Chaplin "Charlie" in this, even though he was always credited as Charles. Movies goes with Charlie because that's his meme name as of today (or 1992).
shareFrom what I've read (and I could be wrong) that's what his friends called him. He may have been credited as Charles, but his friends called him Charlie. It's also in the trivia section for this movie, if you believe what you read there.
shareI was a little surprised by that as well.
shareHis childhood is very rushed too. I appreciate that people watching the film are generally only interested in him as an adult, but his autobiography really went into detail about how he survived as a child, his father, his father's new wife and all the little jobs he had to survive as a child. He was also cast in plays in the theatre. Very interesting.
shareFrom what I read here, you all want more childhood stories and every interaction with other human beings that he had, huh?
This a movie, not a 5 seasons HBO show.