Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889-1977) not only distinguished himself as an actor, comedian, director, producer, writer and creator of the iconic character of silent film "Charlot", more than that, he was a great storyteller with the ability to do comedy and with a twist take the viewer to the overall gloom.
This was considered the film critic and researcher José Antonio Valdés Peña during the lecture he gave at the National Film to present the series "Chaplin forever" which includes six of the most representative films of British director.
During the conversation, Peña Valdés shared with the audience anecdotes, trivia and a bit of the dark who is considered a worldwide symbol of the silent film side; how he was creating his character "Chaplin," a vagabond who besides his obsession with food, was acquiring a critical consciousness in social situations that are living at the time.
"'Charlot' was a bum who looked like young Chaplin himself, a man whose main food obsession, and although the first films he made during the decade 10 is shown as a pica rogue navels, as it takes independence creative is shaping the character, "said the critic.
The also head of the National Film Information explains how "Charlot" went from being a vagabond rogue character with a clear awareness of what was happening in American society and the meaning of migration, because he himself was a migrant and that the portrayed in the film "Street of Peace."
It was like "Charlot" became, always through comedy, a social activist, a notion of hard society makes a critical unemployment, social injustice, until the film "The Great Dictator , "in which Chaplin dares to predict what would happen in Germany, which meant the end of his work in America.
One of the curiosities that have said José Antonio Valdés, is that one of the fans of the artist and the film "The Great Dictator" was Adolf Hitler himself.
Another curious fact is that the actor was not only obsessed with food, which is present in all his films, it was also an obsessive when it comes to filming and could repeat a scene 300 times.
Finally, Valdés Peña invited the public to enjoy organized by the National Film and Cinepolis chain cycle, under the title of "Chaplin forever," which includes the films "The Kid", "Modern Times", "Lights city "," The Gold Rush "," The Circus "and" The Great Dictator ".
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