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[00:00.00]喜欢hxen.net，就把hxen.net复制到QQ个人资料中！Charlie Chaplin
[00:-1.00]He was born in a poor area of south London.
[00:-2.00]He wore his mother's old red stockings cut down for ankle socks.
[00:-3.00]His mother was temporarily declared mad.
[00:-4.00]Dickens might have created Charlie Chaplin's childhood.
[00:-5.00]But only Charle Chaplin could have created the great comic character of " the Tramp ",
[00:-6.00]the little man in rags who gave his creator permanent fame.
[00:-7.00]Other countries — France,Italy,Spain,even Japan and Korea
[00:-8.00]— have provided more applause (and profit)
[00:-9.00]where Chaplin is concerned than the land of his birth.
[00:10.00]Chaplin quit Britain for good in 1913
[00:11.00]when he journeyed to America with a group of performers to do his comedy act
[00:12.00]on the stage where talent scouts recruited him to work for Mack Sennett,
[00:13.00]the king of Hollywood comedy films.
[00:14.00]Sad to say,many English people in the 1920's
[00:15.00]and 1930's thought Chaplin's Tramp a bit,
[00:16.00]well," crude ".Certainly middle-class audiences did;
[00:17.00]the working-class audiences were more likely to clap for a character
[00:18.00]who revolted against authority,
[00:19.00]using his wicked little cane to trip it up,
[00:20.00]or aiming the heel of his boot for a well-placed kick at its broad rear.
[00:21.00]All the same, Chaplin's comic beggar didn't seem all that English or even working class.
[00:22.00]English tramps didn't sport tiny moustaches,huge pants or tail coats:
[00:23.00]European leaders and Italian waiters wore things like that.
[00:24.00]Then again,the Tramp's quick eye for a pretty girl had a coarse way about it
[00:25.00]that was considered,well,not quite nice by English audiences
[00:26.00]— that's how foreigners behaved,
[00:27.00]wasn't it? But for over half of his screen career,
[00:28.00]Chaplin had no screen voice to confirm his British nationality.
[00:29.00]Indeed,it was a headache for Chaplin when he could no longer resist
[00:30.00]the talking movies and had to find "the right voice" for his Tramp.
[00:31.00]He postponed that day as long as possible:in Modern Times in 1936,
[00:32.00]the first film in which he was heard as a singing waiter,
[00:33.00]he made up a nonsense language which sounded like no known nationality.
[00:34.00]He later said he imagined the Tramp to be a college-educated gentleman
[00:35.00]who'd come down in the world.
[00:36.00]But if he'd been able to speak with an educated accent in those early short comedy movies,
[00:37.00]it's doubtful if he would have achieved world fame.
[00:38.00]And the English would have been sure to find it "odd".
[00:39.00]No one was certain whether Chaplin did it on purpose
[00:40.00]but this helped to bring about his huge success.
[00:41.00]He was an immensely talented man,
[00:42.00]determined to a degree unusual even in the ranks of Hollywood stars.
[00:43.00]His huge fame gave him the freedom — and,more importantly, the money
[00:44.00]— to be his own master.
[00:45.00]He already had the urge to explore and extend a talent he discovered
[00:46.00]in himself as he went along.
[00:47.00]"It can't be me.Is that possible? How extraordinary,"
[00:48.00]is how he greeted the first sight of himself as the Tramp on the screen.
[00:49.00]But that shock roused his imagination.
[00:50.00]Chaplin didn't have his jokes written into a script in advance;
[00:51.00]he was the kind of comic who used his physical senses
[00:52.00]to invent his art as he went along.
[00:53.00]Lifeless objects especially helped Chaplin make"contact"with himself as an artist.
[00:54.00]He turned them into other kinds of objects.
[00:55.00]Thus,a broken alarm clock in the movie The Pawnbroker
[00:56.00]became a"sick"patient undergoing surgery;
[00:57.00]boots were boiled in his film The Gold Rush
[00:58.00]and their soles eaten with salt and pepper like prime cuts of fish
[00:59.00](the nails being removed like fish bones).
[-1:00.00]This physical transformation,
[-1:-1.00]plus the skill with which he executed it again and again,