A film makes you cry and laugh--The Gold Rush (1925)

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Title: A film makes you cry and laugh--The Gold Rush (1925)
Creator: Film Daily
Date: 1925-08-30
Description: This is a review of Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925) in Film Daily, which praises the film and briefly describes the content and genre of the film, as well as the unique filming techniques pioneered by Chaplin. Here's what the article says about the film "He makes you laugh and cry as he pleases — a great performance."; The Gold Rush (1925); The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin, 1925 - Dinner Roll Dancing Scene; The review of Chaplin in Pictures and the Picturegoer; The Gold Rush from Pictures and the Picturegoer
Scholarly Significance: It is clear from this artical that The Gold Rush (1925) is different from the traditional comedy that only makes people laugh; it is a combination of comedy and tragedy.
Chaplin's crying at the end of the film, for example, is heartbreaking even if the ending is good. Such a technique pervades the entire film, where gags are accompanied by bitterness, illusions by dashing, and dreams are realised in an instant before ending in a fairy-tale-like comedy, which in turn heightens the irony of the film, only to be followed by a reflection on reality at the end of the film, which feels like an illusion created by the film, unlike the real world of reality.
The reason why Bering goes further than his comedic counterparts is that he succeeds in pushing pure comedy into a blend of tragedy and comedy, giving the film a deeper and richer meaning.
Place: United States
Identifier: filmdaily3134newy
Cataloguer: Yuan Yuan

Media: Film Daily The Gold Rush

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The Gold Rush from Pictures and the Picturegoer	Journal
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