IMDB Plot Outline for Richard Attenborough's Chaplin - A film about the troubled and controversial life of the master comedy filmmaker.
After watching the movie, I disagree with the above - Chaplin's life was neither troubled nor controversial, as compared with so many from the entertainment industry. In the film, Robert Downey Jr. has done justice to his role as the great filmmaker. Anthony Hopkins plays the narrator.
Chaplin comes out to be a genius not only in filmmaking but also in managing his money (there is a reference where he says that he had sold all of his stock before the Wall Street crashed next year), managing the entertainment industry politics, managing his many affairs (he married four times and fathered 11 children), and managing his life. Born a British Jew, immigrated to USA, he refused to take up American citizenship and finally left the country in 1952 and settled down to a quiet and peaceful life in Switzerland. I didn't know anything other than his great movies - The Kid, Modern Times, Gold Rush, The Dictator among so many others. And this movie tells you what happened behind the scenes and much more.
2 comments:
Isn't there a rumour he spent the last few years of his life in Calcutta?
heck.. i didn't know about this rumour. btw, he died in switzerland.
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