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* PopCultureOsmosis: The assembly line scene has been parodied and referenced in so many works, that one of the first, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPzLBSBzPI the chocolate conveyor scene]] from the "Job Switching" episode of ''Series/ILoveLucy'', has become equally iconic.
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* PrettyInMink: When the Tramp and the girl try to squat in a department store, the girl tries on a white ermine coat, and she clearly adores it.
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''Modern Times'' is a 1936 American comedy film by Creator/CharlieChaplin that has his iconic [[TheTramp Tramp]] character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during TheGreatDepression, conditions created, in Chaplin's view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization. The movie stars Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Creator/PauletteGoddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford and Chester Conklin, and was written and directed by Chaplin.
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* AuthorTract: Against the problems caused by the things meant to solve problems, as well as the artificiality of sound film.
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** Against the problems caused by the things meant to solve problems, as well as the artificiality of soundfilm.film.
** The factory has television screens (a stated dream Chaplin often had), used by the boss to communicate with workers.
** Against the problems caused by the things meant to solve problems, as well as the artificiality of sound
** The factory has television screens (a stated dream Chaplin often had), used by the boss to communicate with workers.
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: In the factory, the company president has a two-way video screen that can watch all areas of the factory - including in the restrooms.
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: In the factory, the company president has a two-way video screen that can watch all areas of the factory - including in the restrooms. (The idea of television in the future was something Chaplin had predicted, although he was only partially right.)
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''Modern Times'' is a 1936 American comedy film by Creator/CharlieChaplin that has his iconic [[TheTramp Tramp]] character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression, TheGreatDepression, conditions created, in Chaplin's view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization. The movie stars Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford and Chester Conklin, and was written and directed by Chaplin.
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* BawdySong: The Tramp is to sing one as part of a musical act... only he loses the paper on which the lyrics are written, and has to use pantomime and gibberish. He brings the house down.
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* BawdySong: The Tramp is to sing one as part of a musical act... only he loses the paper on which the lyrics are written, and has to use pantomime and gibberish.[[SingingSimlish gibberish]]. He brings the house down.
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* AlcoholHic: The Tramp does this when drunk.
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* ClockworksArea: The factory. One famous scene has The Tramp moving along the wheels of a machine.
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* DrugsAreGood: Charlie winds up accidentally ingesting some cocaine that another prisoner hid in a salt shaker. It helps him foil a jailbreak.
* FoldSpindleMutilation: Subverted when The Tramp gets pulled between the gears of a manufacturing machine and comes out just fine.
* FoldSpindleMutilation: Subverted when The Tramp gets pulled between the gears of a manufacturing machine and comes out just fine.
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* MockingMusic: In one scene, The Tramp is awkwardly sitting on a bench next to the parson's wife, and her stomach keeps gurgling loudly. Charlie turns on the radio for a distraction, and a commercial says, "If you are suffering from gastritis..."
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* RubeGoldbergDevice: In the eating machine scene, a device that makes people eat without using their hands is tested on The Tramp. Due to a malfunction it ends up rubbing a corn in his face and pouring soup on his shirt, among other things.
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* {{Scatting}}: The Tramp's song is essentially this.
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* TalkingThroughTechnique: In one example, some nearby cops interpret The Tramp swinging a red flag as him being a Communist revolutionary rather than him simply gesturing to a driver that it fell off his truck.
* TheTetrisEffect: This effect is demonstrated near the beginning with a factory worker continuously going through the motions of his task even when not working.
* TheTetrisEffect: This effect is demonstrated near the beginning with a factory worker continuously going through the motions of his task even when not working.
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* WithLyrics: "Smile" (a standard popularized by Music/NatKingCole) was adapted from an instrumental theme from this film. It's been covered by Music/MichaelJackson amongst others.
* YourTelevisionHatesYou: The film has one, even though the movie itself is OlderThanTelevision. In one scene, the Tramp is in a waiting room sitting near a woman with a terrible and noisy gas problem. Eventually, he turns on the radio next to him, to a commercial for antacids. He turns it off quickly.
* YourTelevisionHatesYou: The film has one, even though the movie itself is OlderThanTelevision. In one scene, the Tramp is in a waiting room sitting near a woman with a terrible and noisy gas problem. Eventually, he turns on the radio next to him, to a commercial for antacids. He turns it off quickly.
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* PopCultureOsmosis: The assembly line scene has been parodied and referenced in so many works, that one of the first, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPzLBSBzPI the chocolate conveyor scene]] from the "Job Switching" episode of ''Series/ILoveLucy'' has become equally iconic.
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* PopCultureOsmosis: The assembly line scene has been parodied and referenced in so many works, that one of the first, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPzLBSBzPI the chocolate conveyor scene]] from the "Job Switching" episode of ''Series/ILoveLucy'' ''Series/ILoveLucy'', has become equally iconic.
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* PopCultureOsmosis: The assembly line scene has been parodied and referenced in so many works, that one of the first, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPzLBSBzPI the chocolate conveyor scene]] from the "Job Switching" episode of ''Series/ILoveLucy'' has become equally iconic.
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* AccidentalHero: Chaplin thwarts a prison break by dodging bullets and pummeling the escaping prisoners. But he only does so because he was high on cocaine--another prisoner hid his stash in the salt shaker to avoid getting busted, and Charlie sprinkles it all over his lunch.
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* AccidentalHero: Chaplin thwarts a prison break by dodging bullets and pummeling the escaping prisoners. But he only does so because he was high on cocaine--another [[AddictionPowered cocaine]]--another prisoner hid his stash in the salt shaker to avoid getting busted, and Charlie sprinkles it all over his lunch.
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* IntoxicationEnsues: While in prison Chaplin mistakes cocaine for salt and ingests a generous dose. In the ensuing frenzy he ends up foiling a prison break and is hailed as a hero.
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* IntoxicationEnsues: While in prison Chaplin mistakes cocaine [[AddictionPowered cocaine]] for salt and ingests a generous dose. In the ensuing frenzy he ends up foiling a prison break and is hailed as a hero.
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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The Tramp and the gamin are at the side of the road at dawn, after they were forced to flee from [[DepartmentOfChildDisservices the truant police]]. The gamin breaks down and cries in despair. Charlie tells her "Buck up! Never say die! We'll get along." After she flashes him a smile, the film ends with the two of them walking arm-in-arm down the road, the Tramp swinging his rattan cane.
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* UnkemptBeauty: The smudges of dirt artfully applied to Paulette Goddard's face do not conceal the fact that she is exceptionally good-looking.
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* AssemblyLineFastForward: The TropeMaker.
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* BittersweetEnding[=/=]NoEnding/[[RidingIntoTheSunset Riding Into The Dawn]]: The film ends with the Tramp and the girl on their own, fugitives from the law, walking into the sunrise--although the Tramp is still upbeat enough to not let their troubles get them down.
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* BittersweetEnding[=/=]NoEnding/[[RidingIntoTheSunset BittersweetEnding[=/=][[RidingIntoTheSunset Riding Into The Dawn]]: The film ends with the Tramp and the girl on their own, fugitives from the law, walking into the sunrise--although the Tramp is still upbeat enough to not let their troubles get them down.
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''Modern Times'' is a 1936 American comedy film by Creator/CharlieChaplin that has his iconic [[TheTramp Tramp]] character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during TheGreatDepression, conditions created, in Chaplin's view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization. The movie stars Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford and Chester Conklin, and was written and directed by Chaplin.
The movie begins with the Tramp working at a factory, screwing nuts and bolts on a conveyor belt, where he eventually suffers a nervous breakdown. He's sent to a mental hospital. After he recovers he soon finds that he's out of a job. He's soon mistakenly [[RedScare accused of being a Communist]] after accidentally and unknowingly happening to participate in a socialist march and pick up a red flag someone had dropped, and is thrown in jail. Ironically he finds jail to be more hospitable than the outside world. Throw in a poor orphan girl as a love interest and you have one of Chaplin's most critically acclaimed feature films.
The movie begins with the Tramp working at a factory, screwing nuts and bolts on a conveyor belt, where he eventually suffers a nervous breakdown. He's sent to a mental hospital. After he recovers he soon finds that he's out of a job. He's soon mistakenly [[RedScare accused of being a Communist]] after accidentally and unknowingly happening to participate in a socialist march and pick up a red flag someone had dropped, and is thrown in jail. Ironically he finds jail to be more hospitable than the outside world. Throw in a poor orphan girl as a love interest and you have one of Chaplin's most critically acclaimed feature films.
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''Modern Times'' is a 1936 American comedy film by Creator/CharlieChaplin that has his iconic [[TheTramp Tramp]] character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during TheGreatDepression, UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression, conditions created, in Chaplin's view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization. The movie stars Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford and Chester Conklin, and was written and directed by Chaplin.
The movie begins with the Tramp working at a factory, screwing nuts and bolts on a conveyor belt, where he eventually suffers a nervous breakdown. He's sent to a mental hospital. After he recovers he soon finds that he's out of a job. He's soon mistakenly [[RedScare accused of being a Communist]] after accidentally and unknowingly happening to participate in a socialist march and pick up a red flag someone had dropped, and is thrown in jail. Ironically he finds jail to be more hospitable than the outside world. Throw in a poor orphan girl (noted in the credits as the "gamin") as a love interest and you have one of Chaplin's most critically acclaimed feature films.
The movie begins with the Tramp working at a factory, screwing nuts and bolts on a conveyor belt, where he eventually suffers a nervous breakdown. He's sent to a mental hospital. After he recovers he soon finds that he's out of a job. He's soon mistakenly [[RedScare accused of being a Communist]] after accidentally and unknowingly happening to participate in a socialist march and pick up a red flag someone had dropped, and is thrown in jail. Ironically he finds jail to be more hospitable than the outside world. Throw in a poor orphan girl (noted in the credits as the "gamin") as a love interest and you have one of Chaplin's most critically acclaimed feature films.
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* AccidentalHero: Chaplin thwarts a prison break by dodging bullets and pummeling the escaping prisoners. But he only does so because earlier he'd unknowingly sprinkled cocaine all over his lunch that another prisoner had hidden in a salt shaker, and was completely high at that point.
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* AccidentalHero: Chaplin thwarts a prison break by dodging bullets and pummeling the escaping prisoners. But he only does so because earlier he'd unknowingly sprinkled cocaine he was high on cocaine--another prisoner hid his stash in the salt shaker to avoid getting busted, and Charlie sprinkles it all over his lunch that another prisoner had hidden in a salt shaker, and was completely high at that point.lunch.
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* TheCriterionCollection: This was the first Chaplin film to get the Criterion treatment.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The Tramp gets high on cocaine while in prison. It's not referred to as cocaine, only as "nose powder", but there's no other way to interpret that scene! Quite daring for its time, since the HaysCode (in effect from 1930 to 1968) didn't allow drug references in movies.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The Tramp gets high on cocaine while in prison. It's not referred to as cocaine, only as "nose powder", but there's no other way to interpret that scene! Quite daring for its time, since the HaysCode UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode (in effect from 1930 to 1968) didn't allow drug references in movies.
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* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Chaplin's character regards his prison as this, though it is only luxurious in comparison to how much worse it was to be living on the streets during TheGreatDepression. Of course, the fact that after he accidentally prevents a prison break he's treated extra nicely by the guards and the warden helps.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: A couple of comments that could double as Chaplin's attitude towards talking films. The record player that advertises the Billows Feeding Machine says, among other things, "actions speak louder than words". And when the Tramp can't remember the words to his song, a title card has the gamin saying "Sing! Never mind the words."
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Chaplin's character regards his prison as this, though it is only luxurious in comparison to how much worse it was to be living on the streets duringTheGreatDepression.UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression. Of course, the fact that after he accidentally prevents a prison break he's treated extra nicely by the guards and the warden helps.
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Chaplin's character regards his prison as this, though it is only luxurious in comparison to how much worse it was to be living on the streets during
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** OSHA hadn't been made yet at the time, but any real factory where you might end up being a literal part of the machine traveling between the cogs would have been thought a ''bit'' much, even back then.
** Also: Chaplin, like many of his contemporaries, did his own stunts, and did them without too many safety precautions.
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Chaplin was notorious for this, and Paulette Goddard was no exception.
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** OSHA hadn't been made yet at the time, but any real factory where you might end up being a literal part of the machine traveling between the cogs would have been thought a ''bit'' much, even back then.
** Also: Chaplin, like many of his contemporaries, did his own stunts, and did them without too many safety precautions.
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characters. Although if you look at the arrest warrant, Goddard's character is apparently named "Ellen Peterson".
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** Also: Chaplin, like many of his contemporaries, did his own stunts, and did them without too many safety precautions.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The Tramp gets high on cocaine while in prison. It's not referred to as cocaine, only as "nose powder", but there's no other way to interpret that scene! Quite daring for its time, since the HaysCode (in effect from 1930 to 1968) didn't allow drug references in movies.
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* AbsurdlyDedicatedWorker: Chaplin goes berserk working on an assembly line tightening bolts in an ever accelerating conveyor belt. He eventually gets caught inside the machinery (where even there he's busy tightening bolts), and after he gets rescued he continues going through the motions, tweaking noses and buttons with wrenches on both hands.
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* MyBreastsAreDownHere: Check out the buttons on that lady's suit.
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* DisastrousDemonstration: The Billows Feeding Machine is demonstrated with the Tramp, which goes memorably awry.
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* BarefootPoverty: Goddard's character is barefoot for most of the film because she's so poor she can't afford them.
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* BarefootPoverty: Goddard's character is barefoot for most of the film because she's so poor she can't afford them.shoes.
* TheSpeedOfSilents: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] - despite being shot at a modern (sound film) frame rate, the movie is slightly undercranked for a {{Retraux}} fast motion effect.
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* TheSpeedOfSilents: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] - despite being shot at a modern (sound film) frame rate, the movie is slightly undercranked for a {{Retraux}} fast motion effect.
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''Modern Times'' is a 1936 American comedy film by CharlieChaplin Creator/CharlieChaplin that has his iconic [[TheTramp Tramp]] character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during TheGreatDepression, conditions created, in Chaplin's view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization. The movie stars Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford and Chester Conklin, and was written and directed by Chaplin.
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* BarefootPoverty: Goddard's character is barefoot for most of the film because she's so poor she can't afford them.
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* BittersweetEnding / NoEnding / [[RidingIntoTheSunset Riding Into The Dawn]]: The film ends with the Tramp and the girl on their own, fugitives from the law, walking into the sunrise--although the Tramp is still upbeat enough to not let their troubles get them down.
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* BittersweetEnding / NoEnding / [[RidingIntoTheSunset BittersweetEnding[=/=]NoEnding/[[RidingIntoTheSunset Riding Into The Dawn]]: The film ends with the Tramp and the girl on their own, fugitives from the law, walking into the sunrise--although the Tramp is still upbeat enough to not let their troubles get them down.
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* DawsonCasting: Paulette Goddard, 26 when the film was released, playing a teenager fleeing from the County Juvenile Division.
* [[DoesNotLikeShoes Does Not Wear Shoes]]: Goddard's character is barefoot for most of the film because she's so poor she can't afford them.
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* SanitySlippage: While Charlie is working at the factory. He begins to try and take a wrench to everything in sight...including a woman's breasts.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In his autobiography Chaplin mentions an idea for the ending in which Goddard's character becomes a nun. Mercifully averted.
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The film was Chaplin's last-ditch effort to stay loyal to the style of the silent films that had made his career. There is audible dialogue, but only from artificial sources; whenever people talk face to face, it's done silently with caption cards, as a clear statement of Chaplin's view on the new filmmaking tool.
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''Modern Times'' is a 1936 American comedy film by CharlieChaplin that has his iconic [[TheTramp Tramp]] character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during TheGreatDepression, conditions created, in Chaplin's view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization. The movie stars Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford and Chester Conklin, and was written and directed by Chaplin.
The movie begins with the Tramp working at a factory, screwing nuts and bolts on a conveyor belt, where he eventually suffers a nervous breakdown. He's sent to a mental hospital. After he recovers he soon finds that he's out of a job. He's soon mistakenly [[RedScare accused of being a Communist]] after accidentally and unknowingly happening to participate in a socialist march and pick up a red flag someone had dropped, and is thrown in jail. Ironically he finds jail to be more hospitable than the outside world. Throw in a poor orphan girl as a love interest and you have one of Chaplin's most critically acclaimed feature films.
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* AccidentalHero: Chaplin thwarts a prison break by dodging bullets and pummeling the escaping prisoners. But he only does so because earlier he'd unknowingly sprinkled cocaine all over his lunch that another prisoner had hidden in a salt shaker, and was completely high at that point.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The Tramp's "singing waiter" number near the end of the film, which sounds like a mixture between French and Italian, but really is gibberish. It was the first time that the Tramp's voice was heard in a movie, and Chaplin wanted the character to continue to transcend all language boundaries.
* AuthorTract: Against the problems caused by the things meant to solve problems, as well as the artificiality of sound film.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: In the factory, the company president has a two-way video screen that can watch all areas of the factory - including in the restrooms.
* BittersweetEnding / NoEnding / [[RidingIntoTheSunset Riding Into The Dawn]]: The film ends with the Tramp and the girl on their own, fugitives from the law, walking into the sunrise--although the Tramp is still upbeat enough to not let their troubles get them down.
* CrapsackWorld: Pretty much a sign of the times.
* CrashIntoHello: Chaplin meets his love interest in the movie this way; she had just stolen a loaf of bread, and ran at full speed around a corner before crashing straight into him.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When he goes up against three armed prisoners with nothing but his fists and a nearby door. And ''wins''.
* DawsonCasting: Paulette Goddard, 26 when the film was released, playing a teenager fleeing from the County Juvenile Division.
* [[DoesNotLikeShoes Does Not Wear Shoes]]: Goddard's character is barefoot for most of the film because she's soo poor she can't affod them.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Chaplin composed the film's music score, including the classic "Smile".
* TheGreatDepression
* HeartwarmingOrphan
* IntoxicationEnsues: While in prison Chaplin mistakes cocaine for salt and ingests a generous dose. In the ensuing frenzy he ends up foiling a prison break and is hailed as a hero.
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Chaplin's character regards his prison as this, though it is only luxurious in comparison to how much worse it was to be living on the streets during TheGreatDepression. Of course, the fact that after he accidentally prevents a prison break he's treated extra nicely by the guards and the warden helps.
* MissingMom: And to make things worse, the father of Paulette Goddard's character gets shot.
* MyBreastsAreDownHere: Check out the buttons on that lady's suit.
* NoNameGiven: For any of the main characters.
* NoOSHACompliance
** OSHA hadn't been made yet at the time, but any real factory where you might end up being a literal part of the machine traveling between the cogs would have been thought a ''bit'' much, even back then.
** Also: Chaplin, like many of his contemporaries, did his own stunts, and did them without too many safety precautions.
* ParentalAbandonment
* RomanceOnTheSet: Chaplin was notorious for this, and Paulette Goddard was no exception.
* SanitySlippage: While Charlie is working at the factory. He begins to try and take a wrench to everything in sight...including a woman's breasts.
* SilenceIsGolden: ''Modern Times'' was essentially a silent film with a recorded soundtrack. The only real dialog comes from either recordings or loudspeakers (i.e., not natural speech), Chaplin's way of pointing out his opinion of the artificiality of sound film. Released seven years after the rest of Hollywood had gone over to talkies, and the last major release of a silent film for forty years, until Creator/MelBrooks with ''Film/SilentMovie'' in 1976.
* SingingSimlish: The aforementioned song sequence.
* SuddenlyVoiced: The Tramp.
* TheSpeedOfSilents: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] - despite being shot at a modern (sound film) frame rate, the movie is slightly undercranked for a {{Retraux}} fast motion effect.
* TypewriterEating: Played for BlackComedy: The malfunctioning feeding machine subjects the tramp to this, a sign of just how much the factory environment has dehumanized him.
* VideoPhone: "Hey! Quit stalling! Get back to work!"
* WantedPoster: Juvenile Hall is looking for Paulette Goddard.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In his autobiography Chaplin mentions an idea for the ending in which Goddard's character becomes a nun. Mercifully averted.
''Modern Times'' is a 1936 American comedy film by CharlieChaplin that has his iconic [[TheTramp Tramp]] character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during TheGreatDepression, conditions created, in Chaplin's view, by the efficiencies of modern industrialization. The movie stars Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford and Chester Conklin, and was written and directed by Chaplin.
The movie begins with the Tramp working at a factory, screwing nuts and bolts on a conveyor belt, where he eventually suffers a nervous breakdown. He's sent to a mental hospital. After he recovers he soon finds that he's out of a job. He's soon mistakenly [[RedScare accused of being a Communist]] after accidentally and unknowingly happening to participate in a socialist march and pick up a red flag someone had dropped, and is thrown in jail. Ironically he finds jail to be more hospitable than the outside world. Throw in a poor orphan girl as a love interest and you have one of Chaplin's most critically acclaimed feature films.
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!! ''Modern Times'' includes the following tropes:
* AccidentalHero: Chaplin thwarts a prison break by dodging bullets and pummeling the escaping prisoners. But he only does so because earlier he'd unknowingly sprinkled cocaine all over his lunch that another prisoner had hidden in a salt shaker, and was completely high at that point.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The Tramp's "singing waiter" number near the end of the film, which sounds like a mixture between French and Italian, but really is gibberish. It was the first time that the Tramp's voice was heard in a movie, and Chaplin wanted the character to continue to transcend all language boundaries.
* AuthorTract: Against the problems caused by the things meant to solve problems, as well as the artificiality of sound film.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: In the factory, the company president has a two-way video screen that can watch all areas of the factory - including in the restrooms.
* BittersweetEnding / NoEnding / [[RidingIntoTheSunset Riding Into The Dawn]]: The film ends with the Tramp and the girl on their own, fugitives from the law, walking into the sunrise--although the Tramp is still upbeat enough to not let their troubles get them down.
* CrapsackWorld: Pretty much a sign of the times.
* CrashIntoHello: Chaplin meets his love interest in the movie this way; she had just stolen a loaf of bread, and ran at full speed around a corner before crashing straight into him.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When he goes up against three armed prisoners with nothing but his fists and a nearby door. And ''wins''.
* DawsonCasting: Paulette Goddard, 26 when the film was released, playing a teenager fleeing from the County Juvenile Division.
* [[DoesNotLikeShoes Does Not Wear Shoes]]: Goddard's character is barefoot for most of the film because she's soo poor she can't affod them.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Chaplin composed the film's music score, including the classic "Smile".
* TheGreatDepression
* HeartwarmingOrphan
* IntoxicationEnsues: While in prison Chaplin mistakes cocaine for salt and ingests a generous dose. In the ensuing frenzy he ends up foiling a prison break and is hailed as a hero.
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Chaplin's character regards his prison as this, though it is only luxurious in comparison to how much worse it was to be living on the streets during TheGreatDepression. Of course, the fact that after he accidentally prevents a prison break he's treated extra nicely by the guards and the warden helps.
* MissingMom: And to make things worse, the father of Paulette Goddard's character gets shot.
* MyBreastsAreDownHere: Check out the buttons on that lady's suit.
* NoNameGiven: For any of the main characters.
* NoOSHACompliance
** OSHA hadn't been made yet at the time, but any real factory where you might end up being a literal part of the machine traveling between the cogs would have been thought a ''bit'' much, even back then.
** Also: Chaplin, like many of his contemporaries, did his own stunts, and did them without too many safety precautions.
* ParentalAbandonment
* RomanceOnTheSet: Chaplin was notorious for this, and Paulette Goddard was no exception.
* SanitySlippage: While Charlie is working at the factory. He begins to try and take a wrench to everything in sight...including a woman's breasts.
* SilenceIsGolden: ''Modern Times'' was essentially a silent film with a recorded soundtrack. The only real dialog comes from either recordings or loudspeakers (i.e., not natural speech), Chaplin's way of pointing out his opinion of the artificiality of sound film. Released seven years after the rest of Hollywood had gone over to talkies, and the last major release of a silent film for forty years, until Creator/MelBrooks with ''Film/SilentMovie'' in 1976.
* SingingSimlish: The aforementioned song sequence.
* SuddenlyVoiced: The Tramp.
* TheSpeedOfSilents: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] - despite being shot at a modern (sound film) frame rate, the movie is slightly undercranked for a {{Retraux}} fast motion effect.
* TypewriterEating: Played for BlackComedy: The malfunctioning feeding machine subjects the tramp to this, a sign of just how much the factory environment has dehumanized him.
* VideoPhone: "Hey! Quit stalling! Get back to work!"
* WantedPoster: Juvenile Hall is looking for Paulette Goddard.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In his autobiography Chaplin mentions an idea for the ending in which Goddard's character becomes a nun. Mercifully averted.
