The Gold Rush is a film written, directed and acted by Charlie Chaplin. Anyone who knows Chaplin knows his comedy Tears in Laughter. 1925 In an era when audio films and color films have not kept up, comedies are mainly expressed by actors' exaggerated action expressions and their understanding of art. Charlie Chaplin is such an artist with distinctive characteristics in the silent film era.
In the days of hunger and cold, gold digger Charlie boiled his shoes with snow water to satisfy his hunger. The soles are hamburgers, the nails are chicken bones, and the shoelaces are noodles. The eater is helpless and the viewer is disgusting. What's more, I use little Charlie as a turkey and sharpen my knife. Finally, a bear came and had a big dinner with his companion Jim.
However, the wanted man who went out looking for food failed to return to the wooden house as promised, and stumbled upon Jim's gold mine and decided to keep it for himself. Jim went back to his gold mine and waited for him to be attacked by the wicked. Human beings, good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil. The wanted man finally fell into the snow pit and died.
The only place where gold diggers can entertain themselves is the nearby ballroom. Dancer Georgia is the most beautiful of all, with many suitors, but she is a proud person. In order to completely reject the suitor Jack, she chose to dance with Charlie. Charlie regards her as a goddess. Charlie's Dance of Velvet and Dance of Bread are both prepared to win the heart of the goddess.
A snowstorm caused the weak hut to collapse on the top of the snowy mountain. Tested by kindness and sincerity. Charlie and Jim finally managed to escape the danger by helping each other.
Finally, they also found the gold mine they had been looking for and became veritable millionaires. At this time, the beloved girl Georgia's situation became a bit down and out. Seeing each other again, Charlie, who has millions of money, also gained love.
In the social background at that time, the Gold Rush presented the greed, kindness and evil of human nature with a funny comedy. The values of money and love still have profound thinking significance after a century.
Chaplin's optimism, pessimism, pessimism and optimism, now it seems that this is not a pleasure in suffering? A little sweetness in life is the classic he brought to the world.