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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Creator/CharlieChaplin began shooting the film in 1928. Convinced that sound was just a passing fad, he decided to stick with his trademark pantomimic style. However, halfway through production he realized that the talkies weren't going away, so he shut down the film and tried to figure out how to incorporate sound.
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* SpeakingSimlish: Though it's a silent film, the speech given at the beginning to dedicate a statue is [[CrowningMomentOfFunny performed over a kazoo]], while the serenade at the Millionaire's party is performed by a trumpet with wa-wa mute. Knowing Chaplin, this is likely a TakeThat against the pressure for the Tramp to get with the times and make a 'talking' picture.
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* DrivingADesk: A shot of Charlie and the millionaire in a car, arguing over who should be acrually driving it, while street scenery swiftly passes in the background
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* ArchEnemy: The Millionaire to the Tramp.
* BlindMistake: Happens several times with the blind girl. At one point the Tramp is helping her ball up some yarn, and she accidentally grabs a stray thread from his clothes instead. He's too shy to correct her, and ends up helping unravel all his underwear.
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DisabledLoveInterest: The film revolves around the Tramp falling in love with a blind flower seller.
*DramaticCurtainTossDramaticCurtainToss: The film opens with the unveiling of a large statue. When the cover is removed, the Little Tramp is sleeping on it.
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* ThrowingTheFight: In order to raise money for the blind girl, Chaplin enters a boxing match. His first opponent arranged for them to throw the match and split the prize money, but he had to leave, and Chaplin's new opponent wants all the prize money for himself. And he knocks people out in a single punch.
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* CongruentMemory: The millionaire regards Charlie as his best buddy when drunk, but as a vagrant stranger when sober.
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* RescueReversal: The drunk and depressed eccentric millionaire is clumsily attempting to take his own life at the harbor. He has tied one end of a rope to a large stone and put the noose around his neck. The Tramp comes down the steps and valiantly intervenes to prevent the man's determined suicide, but the loop in the rope falls around his neck and pulls him into the river instead. The Tramp almost drowns and he is the one who must be saved.
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* SentimentalDrunk: The Millionaire is exceedingly friendly and generous when drunk, but tight fisted and mean when sober. The fact that he also tended to black out and not remember what had happened when he was drunk adds to the confusion.
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* WeightedGloves: Subverted during the boxing scene. In the locker room Charlie finds a horseshoe which he fiddles with but eventually dismisses and goes to fight without.
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'''''City Lights''''' is a 1931 American silent romantic comedy film starring, written by and directed by Creator/CharlieChaplin. It also stars Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Despite the fact that the production of silent films had dwindled with the rise of "talking" pictures, ''City Lights'' was immediately popular and is today remembered as one of the highest accomplishments of Chaplin's prolific career. Although classified as a comedy, ''City Lights'' has an ending widely regarded as one of the finest and most moving in cinema history.
'''''City Lights''''' is a 1931 American silent romantic comedy film starring, written by and directed by Creator/CharlieChaplin. It also stars Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Despite the fact that the production of silent films had dwindled with the rise of "talking" pictures, ''City Lights'' was immediately popular and is today remembered as one of the highest accomplishments of Chaplin's prolific career. Although classified as a comedy, ''City Lights'' has an ending widely regarded as one of the finest and most moving in cinema history.
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Averted--and notable because, before Chaplin's marriage to Oona O'Neill in 1943, Virginia Cherill was practically the only one of his female costars since 1915 that he didn't have a relationship with. Chaplin actually fired Cherill at one point and tried to replace her with his ''Film/TheGoldRush'' costar Georgia Hale, but he was too far along in production to start over.
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* KidsAreCruel: Two newsboys repeatedly harass the Tramp simply because he's homeless.
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* AlcoholHic: The Tramp, while drunk at one point, accidentally swallows a whistle, causing him to hiccup, and setting the whistle off. During the process, he disrupts the Millionaire's party, inadvertently flags down several taxis, and calls a pack of dogs.
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''City Lights'' was a 1931 American silent romantic comedy film starring, written by and directed by CharlieChaplin. It also stars Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Despite the fact that the production of silent films had dwindled with the rise of "talking" pictures, ''City Lights'' was immediately popular and is today remembered as one of the highest accomplishments of Chaplin's prolific career. Although classified as a comedy, ''City Lights'' has an ending widely regarded as one of the finest and most moving in cinema history.
The plot involves Chaplin as TheTramp, falling in love with a blind flower girl (Cherrill) he meets on the street. Later he convinces a drunken millionaire (Myers) not to commit suicide, and the Millionaire proclaims the Tramp his [[HeterosexualLifePartner friend for life]]. This lasts for as long as the Millionaire is drunk, of course. Oddly enough the Millionaire forgets who Chaplin is while sober, but remembers him again when drunk. Chaplin uses this new temporary millionaire status to woo the flower girl by buying all her flowers and driving her home in the Millionaire's car, and later by trying to pay for her rent and for an operation which will help her see again, using the Millionaire's money. This, of course, does not go over too well once the Millionaire sobers up.
In 1992, ''City Lights'' was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In 2007, the American Film Institute's 10th anniversary edition of "100 Years...100 Movies" named ''City Lights'' the 11th greatest American film of all time (a dramatic change from its original standing of #76), making it the highest-ranking silent film.
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!! ''City Lights'' provides examples of:
* AgonyOfTheFeet: When the Millionaire drops a rock on the Tramp's foot. The Millionaire had tied the rock to his neck in order to drown himself. Also, when the Butler slams the door on the Tramp's foot.
* TheAlcoholic: The Millionaire
* BedmateReveal
* BittersweetEnding / NoEnding: Don't you want to know what will happen next?
* DisabledLoveInterest
* DramaticCurtainToss
* DrivenToSuicide: The Tramp prevents a millionaire from killing himself by talking him out of it. The Millionaire tends to get suicidal whenever he's drunk.
* EpicTrackingShot / TheOner: The Tramp is peeking in the blind girl's window. The camera moves from the window across the living room to show the blind girl, sick in bed. An Epic Tracking Shot ''for Chaplin'', who generally stuck to his old-fashioned silent movie directing style where the camera hardly ever moved.
* ExplodingCalendar
* GoodOldFisticuffs Perhaps the funniest boxing match ever filmed.
* IKissYourHand: several times: Chaplin to the blind girl, the blind girl to Chaplin, Chaplin to a random guy thinking he's the blind girl...
* InnocentFlowerGirl
* InterruptedSuicide: The Millionaire is about to tie a millstone around his neck and throw himself in the river when Charlie stops him.
* InVinoVeritas: The Millionaire is all chummy with Chaplin while drunk, but once he sobers up...
* {{Isophagus}}: Chaplin swallows a whistle at one point, and whistles whenever he hiccups, attracting a taxicab and several dogs.
* MaleGaze: The Tramp sure spends a lot of time looking at that nude female statue...
* MockMillionaire: Charlie
* NoNameGiven: For anyone in the cast, really.
* RagsToRiches: By a lucky association with the Millionaire, Chaplin accomplishes this.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Averted--and notable because, before Chaplin's marriage to Oona O'Neill in 1943, Virginia Cherill was practically the only one of his female costars since 1915 that he didn't have a relationship with. Chaplin actually fired Cherill at one point and tried to replace her with his ''TheGoldRush'' costar Georgia Hale, but he was too far along in production to start over.
* RomanticComedy: In pantomime!
* SightGag: During the opening scene, the Tramp stands near the outstretched hand of one statue, effectively thumbing his nose at the crowd.
* SilenceIsGolden: The entire movie. Notable since it was released two years after the rest of Hollywood had abandoned silent films for talkies.
* SpeakingSimlish: Though it's a silent film, the speech given at the beginning to dedicate a statue is [[CrowningMomentOfFunny performed over a kazoo]], while the serenade at the Millionaire's party is performed by a trumpet with wa-wa mute. Knowing Chaplin, this is likely a TakeThat against the pressure for the Tramp to get with the times and make a 'talking' picture.
* TemporaryBlindness: [[spoiler: The blind flower girl. She gets an operation to restore her sight thanks to the Tramp.]]
* TheTramp: But of course.
* ThrowingTheFight: In order to raise money for the blind girl, Chaplin enters a boxing match. His first opponent arranged for them to throw the match and split the prize money, but he had to leave, and Chaplin's new opponent wants all the prize money for himself. And he knocks people out in a single punch.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The Millionaire, after he sobers up, does not even remember who Chaplin is or that they'd spent an entire night and day hanging out and partying. After he gets drunk again, though, the Millionaire remembers him. Hilariously, they even wake up [[HoYay in bed together]] at one point without the Millionaire recognizing Chaplin. A [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday completely heterosexual]] play on the trope of course.
* WireFu: Wires are actually visible in the boxing scene.
* WrongSideOfTheTracks
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''City Lights'' was a 1931 American silent romantic comedy film starring, written by and directed by CharlieChaplin. It also stars Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Despite the fact that the production of silent films had dwindled with the rise of "talking" pictures, ''City Lights'' was immediately popular and is today remembered as one of the highest accomplishments of Chaplin's prolific career. Although classified as a comedy, ''City Lights'' has an ending widely regarded as one of the finest and most moving in cinema history.
The plot involves Chaplin as TheTramp, falling in love with a blind flower girl (Cherrill) he meets on the street. Later he convinces a drunken millionaire (Myers) not to commit suicide, and the Millionaire proclaims the Tramp his [[HeterosexualLifePartner friend for life]]. This lasts for as long as the Millionaire is drunk, of course. Oddly enough the Millionaire forgets who Chaplin is while sober, but remembers him again when drunk. Chaplin uses this new temporary millionaire status to woo the flower girl by buying all her flowers and driving her home in the Millionaire's car, and later by trying to pay for her rent and for an operation which will help her see again, using the Millionaire's money. This, of course, does not go over too well once the Millionaire sobers up.
In 1992, ''City Lights'' was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". In 2007, the American Film Institute's 10th anniversary edition of "100 Years...100 Movies" named ''City Lights'' the 11th greatest American film of all time (a dramatic change from its original standing of #76), making it the highest-ranking silent film.
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!! ''City Lights'' provides examples of:
* AgonyOfTheFeet: When the Millionaire drops a rock on the Tramp's foot. The Millionaire had tied the rock to his neck in order to drown himself. Also, when the Butler slams the door on the Tramp's foot.
* TheAlcoholic: The Millionaire
* BedmateReveal
* BittersweetEnding / NoEnding: Don't you want to know what will happen next?
* DisabledLoveInterest
* DramaticCurtainToss
* DrivenToSuicide: The Tramp prevents a millionaire from killing himself by talking him out of it. The Millionaire tends to get suicidal whenever he's drunk.
* EpicTrackingShot / TheOner: The Tramp is peeking in the blind girl's window. The camera moves from the window across the living room to show the blind girl, sick in bed. An Epic Tracking Shot ''for Chaplin'', who generally stuck to his old-fashioned silent movie directing style where the camera hardly ever moved.
* ExplodingCalendar
* GoodOldFisticuffs Perhaps the funniest boxing match ever filmed.
* IKissYourHand: several times: Chaplin to the blind girl, the blind girl to Chaplin, Chaplin to a random guy thinking he's the blind girl...
* InnocentFlowerGirl
* InterruptedSuicide: The Millionaire is about to tie a millstone around his neck and throw himself in the river when Charlie stops him.
* InVinoVeritas: The Millionaire is all chummy with Chaplin while drunk, but once he sobers up...
* {{Isophagus}}: Chaplin swallows a whistle at one point, and whistles whenever he hiccups, attracting a taxicab and several dogs.
* MaleGaze: The Tramp sure spends a lot of time looking at that nude female statue...
* MockMillionaire: Charlie
* NoNameGiven: For anyone in the cast, really.
* RagsToRiches: By a lucky association with the Millionaire, Chaplin accomplishes this.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Averted--and notable because, before Chaplin's marriage to Oona O'Neill in 1943, Virginia Cherill was practically the only one of his female costars since 1915 that he didn't have a relationship with. Chaplin actually fired Cherill at one point and tried to replace her with his ''TheGoldRush'' costar Georgia Hale, but he was too far along in production to start over.
* RomanticComedy: In pantomime!
* SightGag: During the opening scene, the Tramp stands near the outstretched hand of one statue, effectively thumbing his nose at the crowd.
* SilenceIsGolden: The entire movie. Notable since it was released two years after the rest of Hollywood had abandoned silent films for talkies.
* SpeakingSimlish: Though it's a silent film, the speech given at the beginning to dedicate a statue is [[CrowningMomentOfFunny performed over a kazoo]], while the serenade at the Millionaire's party is performed by a trumpet with wa-wa mute. Knowing Chaplin, this is likely a TakeThat against the pressure for the Tramp to get with the times and make a 'talking' picture.
* TemporaryBlindness: [[spoiler: The blind flower girl. She gets an operation to restore her sight thanks to the Tramp.]]
* TheTramp: But of course.
* ThrowingTheFight: In order to raise money for the blind girl, Chaplin enters a boxing match. His first opponent arranged for them to throw the match and split the prize money, but he had to leave, and Chaplin's new opponent wants all the prize money for himself. And he knocks people out in a single punch.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The Millionaire, after he sobers up, does not even remember who Chaplin is or that they'd spent an entire night and day hanging out and partying. After he gets drunk again, though, the Millionaire remembers him. Hilariously, they even wake up [[HoYay in bed together]] at one point without the Millionaire recognizing Chaplin. A [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday completely heterosexual]] play on the trope of course.
* WireFu: Wires are actually visible in the boxing scene.
* WrongSideOfTheTracks
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