The film tells the story of the glassmaker Charlot who found an abandoned baby. After several unsuccessful attempts to "change hands", he could only be a single dad once. The little outcast grows to five years old, and has long been in love with Charlot. Not only does he do housework, but he also earns money playing double-reeds with his father: he is responsible for smashing the glass windows, and then Charlot comes to the door to change the glass. Someone found out that he was an orphan and wanted to put little Charloh in an orphanage. Father and son escaped successfully. The birth mother of the outcast who was looking for the child published a notice in the newspaper, and the outcast was runaway overnight. Charlo searched around for the child, and finally fell asleep at the door of the house, dreaming that everyone had become an angel and that his son had returned. After waking up from the dream, the police took Charlo away, and it turned out that the child had returned to his mother.
The film begins with a subtitle: A picture with a smile, and perhaps a tear.
Although it continues Chaplin's farce routine, the father-son relationship is delicate and sincere, and it is a very touching tragicomedy. It embodies the humanistic care of Chaplin's films and the ability to dispatch emotions.
"Finding a Son and Encountering Immortals" is Chaplin's first feature film (six volumes), the original version is 68 minutes, and now we can see the restored version in 1971, Chaplin deleted the painter's father and mother The scene of the encounter, and the scene of the mother seeking death after abandoning the child. As for the reason for the deleted scenes, Chaplin once explained that these scenes were too emotional.
Chaplin made films to strive for perfection. The film's raw to feature ratio is 53:1. If the feature film is 60 minutes, then he shot a total of 3,180 minutes, which was unimaginably extravagant at that time.
After taking so many films, the post-production workload is naturally cumbersome and huge. During the editing of the film, Chaplin suffered a divorce, and his wife's lawyer asked him for the advance benefit of the film as compensation for the divorce. This is nearly all of Chaplin's possessions. In order to make the film go smoothly, Chaplin and his partner packed all the film rolls into coffee boxes, filled 12 large boxes, and shipped them to a hotel in Salt Lake City early one morning. Knowing that the film is flammable and explosive, they completed the post-editing of the film in the hotel.
It must be mentioned that the young actor Jackie Coogan (Jackie Coogan) who plays the outcast in the film . He was only six years old when he starred in the film, and quickly became the preeminent child star of the silent film era.
Coogan and Chaplin's first collaboration dates back to 1919's "Happy Day," but it was a little trick. After that, Coogan also starred in Chaplin's "Friendly" (1922), "Stargazing" (1922). But only "Finding a Son and Encountering Immortal" is a feature film. Coogan also worked with Buster Keaton, another famous comedy star of the silent era.
He starred in more than 20 films during that period and was at one point one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood . However, his insatiable mother and stepfather squandered him nearly $4 million so that he could not guarantee his normal life, he chose to go to court. In 1938, the Coogan Act, a bill named after Coogan to protect the property of child stars, was introduced , which has been amended many times and is still in use today.
Coogan grew up with few big roles, maybe 1964's The Addams Family (TV series) could count as one. He is the bald uncle in the picture below.
Well, it's time to feed the pigs...but they were 50 years old by then.
"Finding a Son and Encountering Immortal" may not be the greatest Chaplin film, but it's definitely the most moving. But for the young actor Coogan, the filming process was not so good. There are several crying scenes in the film, when Coogan can't cry, his father scolded him sharply, although it played a good effect...
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