Work (1915)
(Charlie the Decorator)
Country: US
Technical: bw 31m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Charles Inslee, Edna Purviance, Billy Armstrong, Leo White
Synopsis:
Charlie is a decorator's assistant and they arrive to redecorate a house belonging to the idle rich, whose mistress has trouble controlling her domestic staff, as well as the visits of her secret lover.
Review:
Predictably everything ends in a farcical free-for-all of running about upstairs and down until the house is practically reduced to debris; but what is noteworthy in this sequence is the speed of the editing, truly building up a head of comedic steam. One wonders, also, if Samuel Beckett might not have based Pozzo and Lucky on the early sequence in which Charlie pulls the decorator's cart like a mule, at one point climbing a pointless rise (the camera is tilted), only to tumble back downhill. Purviance plays a flighty maid with great coquetry, and there is a stove which keeps exploding, but many of the gags are of the tired 'plank and paint' variety.
(Charlie the Decorator)
Country: US
Technical: bw 31m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Charles Inslee, Edna Purviance, Billy Armstrong, Leo White
Synopsis:
Charlie is a decorator's assistant and they arrive to redecorate a house belonging to the idle rich, whose mistress has trouble controlling her domestic staff, as well as the visits of her secret lover.
Review:
Predictably everything ends in a farcical free-for-all of running about upstairs and down until the house is practically reduced to debris; but what is noteworthy in this sequence is the speed of the editing, truly building up a head of comedic steam. One wonders, also, if Samuel Beckett might not have based Pozzo and Lucky on the early sequence in which Charlie pulls the decorator's cart like a mule, at one point climbing a pointless rise (the camera is tilted), only to tumble back downhill. Purviance plays a flighty maid with great coquetry, and there is a stove which keeps exploding, but many of the gags are of the tired 'plank and paint' variety.
(Charlie the Decorator)
Country: US
Technical: bw 31m
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Charles Inslee, Edna Purviance, Billy Armstrong, Leo White
Synopsis:
Charlie is a decorator's assistant and they arrive to redecorate a house belonging to the idle rich, whose mistress has trouble controlling her domestic staff, as well as the visits of her secret lover.
Review:
Predictably everything ends in a farcical free-for-all of running about upstairs and down until the house is practically reduced to debris; but what is noteworthy in this sequence is the speed of the editing, truly building up a head of comedic steam. One wonders, also, if Samuel Beckett might not have based Pozzo and Lucky on the early sequence in which Charlie pulls the decorator's cart like a mule, at one point climbing a pointless rise (the camera is tilted), only to tumble back downhill. Purviance plays a flighty maid with great coquetry, and there is a stove which keeps exploding, but many of the gags are of the tired 'plank and paint' variety.