Charlie Chaplin Research

Charlie Chaplin born on 16th April 1889 was a actor/filmmaker, A man of English decent influenced by his parents who were both actors and vocalists where he would of gained and inherited natural talent from. Chaplin Rose to fame in his early teenage years When he debuted his first film Making a living in 1913 under the film industry keystone pictures. Only 2 years down the line after signing his deal he co founded a distribution company which gave him full control over his films which is where we began to see his full potential. In 1940 Chaplin went on to release his most commercially successful film The Great Dictator, it was a political comedy drama that was scripted, produced and directed by himself subjected around the world war 1.



As a class we choreographed a physical theatre piece, to a speech Charlie Chaplin made in ‘The Great Dictator’, Where he played Hitler. We modernised this speech and basically wanted to look like individuals from our society that have been programmed to move the same and to act the same. Throughout the speech it becomes more empowering and our movement moves much quicker, until we fight back and end the speech strongly. The ending to the performance was my groups idea (in one lesson we were split up into groups to choreograph the ending and afterwards see who had the best ending). We basically used the domino effect and we started off on the floor, drained from all we feel we have to keep up with and then one person makes a stand and then we all begin to follow and on stage we stand as like a open arrow and when Chaplin says, “UNITE” We all raise our hands in the air and lift our heads as one, we had no expressions and it looked really strong.I was moved to the front of the ensemble to help lead the marching, because the group were supposed to move as one and I felt confident in myself that I knew the movement and that I had the stage presence to take on that role along with several others.