Work | CHARLIE CHAPLIN | Colorized Silent Movie | Comedy | Classic Movie | Full Length | Film Noir

Charlie Chaplin - Work - Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive.

Charlie Chaplin - Work (1915)
Director: Charles Chaplin
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Billy Armstrong, Marta Golden
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: USA
Language: None | English
Release Date: 21 June 1915 (USA)
Also Known As: Arbeit
Filming Locations: San Francisco, California, USA

Storyline:
Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house.

Reviews:
"By this point in his career, Chaplin had almost fully developed the character of the little tramp, although he had not come close to perfecting the performances or truly refining his personality. But the character that the world soon came to know and love is clearly there by this point. This is one of the more complex stories for Chaplin's earliest work, with several story lines taking place simultaneously and coming together at the end.

The thing about slapstick is that so often it's only funny once, and sometimes even only mildly amusing that one time. The problem is that when you know what's going to happen, you can see the actor setting up for whatever sight gag is coming, even if it's only a slight indication of movement or preparation, but Chaplin was so good at it that in a film like this there are numerous sight gags and stunts that you can rewind and watch two or three times and they're still good. Chaplin had a natural style about him that looks like what we're watching isn't even a performance.

This film, simply titled Work, has plenty of amusing and memorable gags, particularly the wallpapering and the exploding stove. The end of the film is very high energy and even action packed, but it still strikes me as a bit of a descent into chaos. It's the kind of punching and kicking and throwing and falling and swinging and breaking stuff that we see a lot of in the Keystone films but that I feel tend to get boring after a while.

Then again, it's not until about 22 minutes into this 24 minute film that Chaplin first kicks a man over backwards by shoving his foot into the man's chest, so clearly other elements of storytelling are becoming more important to him...." Written by Anonymous_Maxine on IMDb.com

"The first scene of Chaplin in this movie is of him drawing a carriage while his masters sit in the back as he tries to take them up a hill to amusing results. That's all you need to know to appreciate this treatise on work and the pains that man goes to achieve it. We all have to work to pay the bills, but the characters homes he visits in the movie don't have to work, the way he does, that is the hard labor of using one's hands and seem precarious of it. Chaplin loved to spoof the rich or the idle class as they are known. Maybe, he felt being born with a golden spoon is bad. There is nothing wrong with that. It's how one lives with such advantages and disposes of his willed upbringing that castigates the self. But not to Chaplin, who goes on to wreck havoc in a series of set pieces that ends with destruction and a wink to the camera; an act of farewell and goodbye. Is it farewell to work and a hooray for idleness, I cannot say but like a cartoon character who has preyed the deed, he takes us along and makes us laugh, even if I do not agree with his accusations." Written by raskimono on IMDb.com

Also Known As:
(original title) Work
Brazil (DVD box title) Carlitos Limpador de Vidraças
Finland Työ
Poland Praca
Portugal Charlot Aprendiz
Romania Charlot ucenic
Russia Работа
Serbia Rad
Slovakia Chaplin lepičom tapiet
Spain (reissue title) Carlitos empapelador
Spain (reissue title) Charlot trabaja
Spain (reissue title) Charlot, empapelador
Spain Charlot, trabajando de papelista
Ukraine Робота
USA (alternative title) Charlie the Decorator
Charlie at Work
Only a Working Man
The Paperhanger
The Plumber

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