Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
2003 · 132 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 1,439 VOTES · DIR. Richard Schickel
Overview
Brilliant, long in-the-works story of the life and art of the world's greatest comedian and the cinema's first genius, Charlie Chaplin. Produced, written and directed by renowned film critic Richard Schickel.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,355 lines
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00:28:40 And Charlie, bowing away, said, "Tell them I am an artist.
00:32:31 But Chaplin went on with it, trusting his own artistic instincts.
00:36:28 "We will do this, this, this and this. That is the gag. "
00:41:23 ...his own feelings, his own memories of being taken off...
00:45:28 ... whenever he went out in public. It does something to a man.
00:49:30 It's a beautiful scene when the painter comes in to the party.
00:53:46 ...he loved at least as much his role as a world-class celebrity.
00:58:10 The miners are starving.
01:02:41 ... who worked with Chaplin for decades.
01:07:05 The divorce settlement was the largest in American history to date.
01:11:43 ...and painstakingly write them, and then execute them...
01:15:56 ...because his feelings are unrequited in love.
01:20:22 ...I was so taken with it that I about fell off the chair.
01:24:46 ...because he had a real knowledge of these things.
01:28:45 For his comic German accent, he drew on his vaudeville training.
01:33:46 ... this admittedly preachy film was undeniably courageous.
01:37:42 Don't turn around so quick. Hey, stop. Not so quick.
01:41:36 That when you're out to make a living, anything goes.
01:45:37 And for 35 years, I used them honestly.
01:49:09 I didn't know anything. So he eased me very gradually into it...
01:52:20 Naturally, we'll go to Stratford-on-Avon and elsewhere...
01:56:16 But the old man would take what he could get...
02:00:55 He didn't say a word during dinner.
02:05:18 ...but with this uncanny ability to reflect and refract...
Cast & Characters
Sydney Pollack
Narrated By
Bill Irwin
Self
Norman Lloyd
Self - Chaplin Friend
Norman Lloyd
Actor
David Thomson
Self - Film Historian
Jeffrey Vance
Self - Chaplin Biographer
Andrew Sarris
Self - Film Critic and Historian
Robert Downey Jr.
Self - Actor
Robert Downey Jr.
Star of 'Chaplin
David Robinson
Self - Chaplin Biographer
Jeanine Basinger
Self - Film Historian
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,355
Dialogue density10.3 lines / min
First line00:28:40
Final line02:05:18
Production Record
DirectorRichard Schickel
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,439