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The Gold Rush (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
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Genre | Comedy, Classics/Silent Films |
Format | Blu-ray |
Contributor | Charlie Chaplin, Georgia Hale |
Language | English |
Runtime | 2 hours and 40 minutes |
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The first feature-length comedy by Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times)—which charts a hapless prospector’s search for fortune in the Klondike and his discovery of romance (with the beautiful Georgia Hale)—forever cemented the iconic status of Chaplin and his Little Tramp character. Shot partly on location in the Sierra Nevadas and featuring such timeless gags as Chaplin’s dance of the dinner rolls and meal of boiled shoe leather, The Gold Rush is an indelible work of nonstop hilarity. This special edition features both Chaplin’s definitive 1942 version, for which the director added new music and narration, and a new restoration of the original silent 1925 film.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.93 ounces
- Item model number : Relay time: 160min
- Director : Charlie Chaplin
- Media Format : Blu-ray
- Run time : 2 hours and 40 minutes
- Release date : June 12, 2012
- Actors : Charlie Chaplin, Georgia Hale
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Criterion Collection
- ASIN : B007N5YJMU
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #25,609 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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The Criterion Collection release features the 1925 original, along with the 1942 re-edit that omitted the intertitles in favor of narration (by Chaplin) and economically trimmed down of some excess plot developments. While the 1942 version does look better and the editing is better paced, Chaplin's voice-over actually dates the film far worse than the silent original.
Chaplin had a voice which carried well into the sound era. He intuitively knew that silent film was a different art form, however. Thinking about marketing, he seemed to have forgotten that fact. The 1942 version illustrates the artist's discomfort with sound. Chaplin never could wrap his art around the new sound medium, and he pointlessly tells us what we are already seeing. Some may prefer the 1942 version, but my concentration will be on the superior, original version that audiences of 1925 saw.
While The Gold Rush exhibits Chaplin's characteristic pathos, here it is far better balanced with his brand of comedy than any of his other features (when the pathos, often, nearly soaked the films).
Chaplin's increasing need for audience sympathy marred may of his later features. Here, he keeps that need in check, and all for the better. Chaplin's Mutual shorts are considered by many (including Chaplin) to be his best work. One of the reasons for that is the presence of his best nemesis in Eric Campbell. But, when Campbell was killed in an automobile accident in 1917, Chaplin was left without a great heavy. His first feature film, The Kid (1921) was able to bypass that. For this, Chaplin's second Tramp feature, two villains were needed: the bonafide villain Black Larson (Tom Murray) and reformed villain Big Jim McCay (Mack Swain). While neither Swain nor Murray could replace Campbell, they were aptly cast and give the film needed tension.
The Gold Rush`s most discussed scene is the dance of the dinner rolls, often imitated (and usually badly--Chaplin was a master at utilizing props for something other than their intended use). What may be the most compelling scene, however, is the surreal chicken hallucination. Everyone has seen this scene spoofed in countless Looney Tune shorts. The starving villain (Swain) imagines his buddy (Chaplin) to be a walking meal (in this case, a plump chicken). Chaplin's shoe-eating scene (complete with shoe laces substituting for noodles) and the rocking house at the edge of the cliff are additional surreal vignettes.
While Chaplin was never a Surrealist, many of his films contained surreal vignettes. The Kid had the dream of heaven, Sunnyside (1919) has the Tramp frolicking in a ballet with hill nymphs. Perhaps it was Chaplin's occasional, natural elements of Surrealism which endeared him to the movements luminaries, such as André Breton. Next to Harry Langdon and Buster Keaton, Chaplin was the filmmaker most cited by the Surrealists.
As The Gold Rush progresses, hunger, the struggle for survival, and harsh elements give way to a soapy romance with the dance hall girl Georgia (Georgia Hale). Chaplin had originally cast 15 year-old Lita Grey in the role, but his getting her pregnant necessitated a new lead actress. While Chaplin does milk sympathy as a rejected lover, he never does it (here) at the expense of the film's comedic tone.
As to be expected, the Criterion extras are abundant: both film versions, a 15 minute short (Presenting The Gold Rush), audio commentary, booklet, a look at Chaplin the composer, and James Agee's famous 1942 review of the film.
*my review originally appeared at 366 weird movies
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チャップリン黄金狂時代は、サイレント版(1925年)とトーキー版(1942年)の2種類が見ることが出来る優れモノのブルーレイ。
DVDでも特典映像として収録されていましたが、やはり高画質のブルーレイの解像度はファンには堪らない1枚です。
この映画に関して蘊蓄は必要なし。
詳しい事は他のレビュアーの方にお任せして、私は画質に関してレビューしたいと思います。
輸入盤の高画質ソフトの老舗クライテリオン社製のブルーレイと、この度発売された日本版のブルーレイを比較して見ました。
まず特典映像に関しては、同じ内容のモノもありますが、別の特典映像が各々にあるため、ファンならばやはり両方のブルーレイを購入することをお勧めします。
本編の1942年トーキー版の画質は、日本盤もクライテリオン盤もほぼ同等の画質です。
「モダンタイムス」では、何と日本盤の方が明るく見やすい画質だったことはモダンタイムスのレビューを参考にしてください。
しかしこの「黄金狂時代」では、その差は殆どわからないほどの両者高画質です。
高画質と言っても古い作品ですから、キズもあればホコリも存在すると言うことで、販売された現存するソフトの中で一番綺麗だとお考えてください。
ところが両者の画質に差が出たのは、1925年サイレント版の方の画質です。
日本版は、綺麗はキレイなんですが、ビデオ感が残るような画質で、被写体のエッジに動きのあるシーンでは若干難があります。
クライテリオン版は、トーキー版の画質と比べるとシャープさはなくなりますが、結構綺麗な画質です。
とにかく、特典映像に差が出たという結果になりました。
従って1925年サイレント版では、クライテリオン社製のブルーレイの画質の方が綺麗です。
百聞は一見にしかず!
画像を比較して見てください。
と言うわけで、日本盤と輸入盤。
チャップリンのファンの方であれば両方を購入することをお勧めします。
輸入盤は当然のことながら日本語字幕はありませんが、元々サイレント映画だったので鑑賞して理解できないと言うことはない作品です。
購入時の判断材料に参考にしてください。
Reviewed in Japan on July 6, 2017
チャップリン黄金狂時代は、サイレント版(1925年)とトーキー版(1942年)の2種類が見ることが出来る優れモノのブルーレイ。
DVDでも特典映像として収録されていましたが、やはり高画質のブルーレイの解像度はファンには堪らない1枚です。
この映画に関して蘊蓄は必要なし。
詳しい事は他のレビュアーの方にお任せして、私は画質に関してレビューしたいと思います。
輸入盤の高画質ソフトの老舗クライテリオン社製のブルーレイと、この度発売された日本版のブルーレイを比較して見ました。
まず特典映像に関しては、同じ内容のモノもありますが、別の特典映像が各々にあるため、ファンならばやはり両方のブルーレイを購入することをお勧めします。
本編の1942年トーキー版の画質は、日本盤もクライテリオン盤もほぼ同等の画質です。
「モダンタイムス」では、何と日本盤の方が明るく見やすい画質だったことはモダンタイムスのレビューを参考にしてください。
しかしこの「黄金狂時代」では、その差は殆どわからないほどの両者高画質です。
高画質と言っても古い作品ですから、キズもあればホコリも存在すると言うことで、販売された現存するソフトの中で一番綺麗だとお考えてください。
ところが両者の画質に差が出たのは、1925年サイレント版の方の画質です。
日本版は、綺麗はキレイなんですが、ビデオ感が残るような画質で、被写体のエッジに動きのあるシーンでは若干難があります。
クライテリオン版は、トーキー版の画質と比べるとシャープさはなくなりますが、結構綺麗な画質です。
とにかく、特典映像に差が出たという結果になりました。
従って1925年サイレント版では、クライテリオン社製のブルーレイの画質の方が綺麗です。
百聞は一見にしかず!
画像を比較して見てください。
と言うわけで、日本盤と輸入盤。
チャップリンのファンの方であれば両方を購入することをお勧めします。
輸入盤は当然のことながら日本語字幕はありませんが、元々サイレント映画だったので鑑賞して理解できないと言うことはない作品です。
購入時の判断材料に参考にしてください。
Who can ever forget the chicken scene, this is the one that has stayed in my mind since I was a very young child in the 1950s/60s and sat with my parents roaring with laughter at his antics. That was the usual clip shown on TV at special times, mostly at Christmas and bank holidays with other excerpts from Disney films et al. You may like to know that Chaplin decided to play the part of the chicken. After several takes using another actor, he wasn't happy with it and said it just didn't look right.
I decided to watch the whole film before wrapping it for my partner's birthday and I can honestly say it was a masterpiece. I didn't realise it was about an hour long with so much more than just the frozen hut in the middle of a blizzard.
Can't wait to see my partner's face when he gets this on his birthday! An absolute gem and worth every penny!