The appearance of comedies has added a lot of joy to our ordinary life, and among the protagonists of those comedies, we have to mention one, king of comedy Charlie Chaplin.

For Chaplin, many people have the impression that he wore a funny top hat, a suit, one hand rested on his hips, the other on crutches, his feet 180 degrees open, and then amused the audience with superb acting skills.

But behind his vivid image, there is a little-known story.

Chaplin's success is inseparable from her mother.

When Chaplin was young, his mother Hana was a very famous actress in London, which made Chaplin and his brother Sidney live a better life at that time.

At the same time, Chaplin, who lived alone with his mother, also learned a lot of acting skills in the performance of his mother's troupe, which made people around him gradually realize this little guy's acting talent.

However, due to the economic depression in Britain at that time, Hannah was not allowed to perform frequently to earn money to support her family. Overwork gradually made Hannah's original clear voice hoarse. Her sudden loss of voice in a performance contributed to the rescue performance of five-year-old Chaplin, and also opened the first scene of Chaplin's "stage career".

But Hannah, who gradually lost her voice, could no longer perform on stage. She can only make a living by sewing others with a sewing machine, and the life of a family of three becomes poor. But even so, Hannah kept what she could influence her children as a good mother. She changes shoes and clothes for her children and lives in a slum, but she pays attention to her words and deeds without being affected by the environment, corrects her children's indecent vocabulary and wrong grammar at any time, and cleans up the dark room to save money.

Moreover, in order to cultivate and tap children's talents, Hana often went hungry, but she performed her famous children's light music with amazing chic and flexibility, and also analyzed the performance skills and talents of famous actors and actresses in London at that time. Her mother's enthusiasm, optimism, humor, artistic talent, and her love and pursuit of drama deeply penetrated into the hearts of Chaplin and Sidney.

What this mother did for Chaplin also had a profound influence on Chaplin's character, acting skills and style as an adult.

Chaplin is a living "film history"

Chaplin was born in the enlightenment stage of world film development. At that time, Edison had just invented the movable film projector, and the appearance of the movable film projector also greatly encouraged other inventors, who invented their own method of projecting films on the screen, which greatly stimulated the development of silent films at that time.

Among them, Lumiere brothers invented the projection system, which made the film a viable commercial thing. Their early film screening was only a medium business, but within a few weeks, the Lumiere brothers' business grew to show 20 films a day, and the audience lined up to watch them. This made Lumiere brothers smell the feasibility of making movies an international commercial thing again, so they sent representatives to show and make more movies around the world. This has also contributed to the rapid development of films around the world. Chaplin grew up with the development of silent films in this period in his childhood. This experience also influenced Chaplin's insistence on silent films in his later years.

Chaplin's success is inseparable from an important reason at that time-the rapid rise of Hollywood in the United States. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the development of international films entered the first decade. European film companies are in a period of rapid development. They produce a large number of important feature films every year and export them to all parts of the world. But this situation changed completely with the outbreak of World War I in 19 14. The war directly affected the development of European films, resulting in a sharp decline in the output of European film companies, which also cast a huge shadow on France and Italy, which were in the leading position in international films at that time. At this time, Hollywood took the opportunity to fill this gap, making European countries firmly occupy the first position in the world film market after the First World War.

The rapid development of the Hollywood Empire has also made American films have a far-reaching impact on films around the world, and Chaplin, who was gradually stepping into the fast lane of his acting career, also hitched a ride in Hollywood.

Chaplin not only experienced the ups and downs of silent films, but also witnessed the prosperity of talking films. In the early 1920s, the sound film was born in the United States. With the promotion of Warner Bros., the sound film gradually entered the audience's field of vision and gradually occupied a dominant position in the film market.

In fact, there is an interesting episode between Chaplin and talking movies. At that time, Chaplin was used to conquering the audience with rich body movements and demeanor. He thinks that if language is added to the performance, it will only make the performance neither fish nor fowl. Therefore, Chaplin was not suitable for the films that rose at that time and gradually occupied the market, even quite exclusive, but for Chaplin, his ideas were really understandable. You know, at that time, he was in the golden age of his career, Chaplin was a star figure in Hollywood, and he directed and starred in his last silent film "Modern Times" in the era when there were already audio films.

Although Modern Times is regarded as one of the most classic works in Chaplin's life, at that time, Chaplin finally failed to hold up the ship of the times and directed and performed his first audio film The Great Dictator at 1940. His realistic works satirizing Hitler and fascism were not only well received at that time, but also won five Oscar nominations that year. If you use a popular phrase now, it is "how delicious!"

But behind this is a lot of bitterness and helplessness in Chaplin's heart. The only thing we can sigh is that the development of film has created Chaplin, and Chaplin's talent has created and witnessed his film era.

Chaplin's influence on the present

Although Chaplin has been away from us for more than 40 years, he started the era of comedy films, and his influence on later generations and comedy works has been exerted to this day. The most outstanding figure is the comedian Tam Sebastian Atkinson CBE, who is also known as "Bean".

Tam Sebastian Atkinson watched many Chaplin films at school since he was a child. At that time, Chaplin's usual body movements had a great influence on Tam Sebastian Atkinson CBE.

For example, Tam Sebastian Atkinson CBE's most classic work is his 1990 TV series Mr. Bean, a work with sound and no limbs, which makes Tam Sebastian Atkinson CBE's "Bean" make us laugh. Although Tam Sebastian Atkinson CBE brings humor to the audience through his facial expressions and plots, Chaplin can still be seen in many of his actions.

Moreover, many of Chaplin's works are not only simple comedies, but also have a lot of practical significance, including many reflections on the little people in World War II and the joys and sorrows of American society. His comedies with practical educational significance set a benchmark for many comedies in the future.

Time will pass, times will change, Chaplin's films will be sealed in the museum of film history one day, and people will gradually forget him. However, as a generation of king of comedy, Chaplin's contribution to the comedy film industry will continue to affect the future for a long time.