Charlie Chaplin's Film: The Gold Rush

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Charlie Chaplin's film, The Gold Rush, that was about the struggles of the gold prospectors that fled to Alaska to make quick money off gold who happens to fall in with “a wistfully soulful dance-hall prostitute, away from her hollow life as a good-time girl in a boomtown salon” (Weissman). The story was focused on Chaplin as played his character persona the tramp, who is a boyish, innocent, clumsy youngster. Costumed in his usual tramp get up, which consists of heavy makeup, overdone eyebrows, his famous mustache, clown like shoes and to tight jacket, hat, cane and smudged eyeliner to exaggerate the exhaustion on not only his face but the on the other miners faces. While the other miners and community members in the film were dressed in typical…show more content…
However, Chaplin also includes a lot of close up and medium shots to emphasis the facial expression each actor. There were also a few establishing shots included in the film these often were used to help move the storyline along and help to create and understanding of why the specific place was being used in the story. Not only were establishing shots used to set up scenes and scenarios, interties were used quite often as well. This film had a total of one hundred and thirty four interties that were used to signify mood changes in the film, for instance when there was tension or a frantic atmosphere needed in the film the interties would be flashing on and off as the music got louder and stronger. They were also used introduce new characters and relay the name of the characters that were of importance to the viewer, mimic diagonal between characters in the film and to connect reactions to situations and to turn the main focus off of one actor onto…show more content…
Here, Mulvey is talking about how not only is the women being focused on there simply for the male's pleasure in the storyline of the film or image but that she is also there for the audience members or viewers pleasure as well. Which I feel is quite apparent when it comes to the scene where we are introduced to Georgia in the dance hall. Though she is dress appropriately for the time period of the film, she minimal makeup making her stand out from the others in the room, as this film tends to use the heavier makeup to create the look of filth and exhaustion. Her hair is perfectly done and she has a very nice sequence dress to make her stand out from the other women in the room. The way she is dress not only gets the audience's attention to notice her but it receives the attentions of the tramp and another man in the scene which then in turn creates a altercation between the two men over her. The other cultural message that is present in the film is the interaction of social classes and how people within the working class and the middle interact within their own social
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