Chaplin

During Chaplin's 1921 trip to Great Britain, he rides a Southern Railway train, which pulls into St.

Pancras Station.

Southern Railway didn't exist until 1923.

Pancras Station was owned by the Midland Railway, which became the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.

A Western Electric 302 telephone appears in the 1930s.

The phone was first produced in the 1940s.

Towards the end of the movie there is a shot of the New York waterfront with the French ocean liner SS Normandie in the foreground, the subtitle showed the year as 1952.

The Normandie was seized by the US government in 1942 and as she was being converted to a troop ship, caught fire and capsized at her dock.

She was sold for scrap four years later.

When Minnie Chaplin punches out the cop during the escape sequence, she is seen wearing high heels.

But when walking to the car in the next shot, she can be seen wearing brown boots.

When Charlie's brother and others arrive to whisk Charlie and his unedited film away to Utah, the car screeches to a halt.

However, the car is on a dirt track and therefore no screeching noise would actually be created.

When Charlie and his brother visit Fred Karno for Charlie's "interview", the opening shot shows a river with still water and a paddle steamer moves from left to right.

The boat is moving a good deal faster than the paddle wheel is moving suggesting another power source.

During the scene where Chaplin demonstrates the power of silent films as Vaslav Nijinsky, he first gives him a high voice before correcting himself.

Chaplin would've known very well what Nijinsky sounded like as he had met him numerous times in the 1920s and the two were good friends.

(SourceThe documentary "Chaplin Today" from the DVD release of City Lights) When Douglas Fairbanks swings down on the rope to meet Charlie, his foot is inside a loop at the end of the rope when he starts the swing in the wide shot, but when he lands in the tight shot, his foot is nowhere near the loop.

Also the momentum created by the swing would have carried him much further than it actually did, i.

E he wouldn't have stopped where Charlie was standing.

While Chaplin is incorrectly depicted playing the violin right-handed (he was a left-handed musician), Chaplin wrote with his right hand.

Don't get me wrong this is a well done movie Robert Downey Jr. made an excellent portrayal of Charlie Chaplin but i was let down by many faults one was that i believe this is one of Lord Attenborough weakest directions one problem he had was that he didn't get me interested in the Charlie Chaplin and the other characters which then bores the viewer.

I'm watching this movie right now. You have to be a Chaplin fan to enjoy and understand this movie.

Bengali cinema will never be the same again after "Chaplin". Period.

It may appear superfluous to remark that more than a mere 143 minutes are required for if the life of Charles Chaplin is to be dramatized successfully on film. Chaplin, who passed away at the age of eighty-eight, not only witnessed and experienced the enormous changes which took place during the twentieth century, both in cultural, sociological and technological ways, but he himself actually turned out to become one of the most influential personalities of his own time.

Chaplin is like a stone skipping across the life of one of the biggest stars of the silent era. It quickly moves from one point in Charlie Chaplin's life to another without ever going too deep.

After watching some Chaplin films and reading books about Chaplin and silent films, I had been anticipating viewing this film for quite some time. I was surprised by the fact that no one did a bio-pic of Chaplin until 1992, which was 15 years after his death.

Isn't it a wonderful treat to watch a biopic where the lead actor or actress actually does his or her homework? Let's not talk about the others, the ones that make you wonder why he or she was cast, and why he or she wasn't fired before the final performance made it to the big screen.

All around I thought it was a great film. Being that I previously read Chaplin's autobiography and having knowledge of it's precise contents helped to identify and validate the film's accuracy being it's based on the book.

A film about the troubled and controversial life of the master comedy filmmaker Charles Chaplin.What can I say?