But people who knew him best felt that he was hard to create a connection with, that they didn’t really know him, that he was always performing.” Everyone has an idea about Charlie Chaplin. As an adult revisiting these, I was struck by how modern they felt, how subversive, how there’s no sense of the antiquated whatsoever.
We saw these films with lots of preconceptions he’s emblematic of an early, cartoonish style of cinema comedy, slapstick, films played at the wrong speed. “Like most people, the costume was known to me. “I remember, even as a child, having an image of Charlie Chaplin in my head,” co-director James Spinney tells the Guardian. If audiences were looking at the bowler hat, toothbrush moustache, and rubbery cane, they’d never see the man wearing them.
The Real Charlie Chaplin, a new documentary in cinemas this week, posits his Little Tramp alter ego as a shield and veil. Charlie Chaplin, perhaps the first A-lister to contend with this existential quandary of exposure, went one step further by inventing a character he could plaster over himself.
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