Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allen's relative sanity in Sleeper shifts the emphasis from the traditional part he plays. At the heart of Allen's appeal, of course, is the schlep, the cumsy neurotic from Brooklyn who's always victimized but likeable. The endearment generally doesn't trigger pathos, however, as with Chaplin (although Allen's capable of that). he shuns the universal in favor of something more contemporary, more esoteric, keener. The source of pleasure is the basic I-thought-I-was-messed-up-but-look-at-this-guy response--a comforting thought. But you never feel sorry for him. He understands somehow...
Allen's subject may be futuristic, but his method of attacking it links him with the grand tradition of silent comedy. Like such masters of that tradition as Chaplin and Keaton, he deplores the notion that things can be improved through scientific and political "progress." Like them, he obviously believes it his unsolemn duty to subvert such nonsense. Sleeper is his definitive assault on it. And his funniest...
...1920s he was widely syndicated, a national institution more or less on a par with his friends Ring Lardner, Will Rogers and Charlie Chaplin. His grand subjects were the quirks of everyday life, things like the difficulty of navigating through revolving doors.or reading a medical thermometer. But Rube Goldberg's zany imagination and zippy drawing style really blossomed with the Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts-those incredible falling domino devices that poke fun at the complex concatenations of modern technology by deploying sleepy dogs, melting ice, steam whistles and levers to light a cigar in an open...
...greatest Chaplin films, Modern Times and City Lights, are at Park Square over the weekend, and Papillon, with Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen, about prison life and escape, starts at Beacon Hill. Have a Merry Christmas...
...made moviegoers laugh as often and as well as Chaplin or Keaton. His work, which has won three Oscars, is among the best of American film comedy. Yet he has never appeared onscreen, and his name-Charles M. Jones, when a producer wanted him to sound classy, or Chuck Jones, as he now prefers to bill himself-is scarcely known outside the movie business. Jones has spent his nearly 40-year career in the ebullient but usually anonymous medium of the animated cartoon...