Text: BARBARA EICHHAMMER
m l fi e th A gold digger carves his shoe like a turkey, wrapping the laces around his fork as if they were spaghetti and eating the meagre meal with unparalleled elegance – this scene from GOLDRUSH (1925) became one of the most memorable in FILM HISTORY .
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performs here an incomparable parody of the traditional US-American Thanksgiving dinner. He fills the terrible misery and food shortage of his poor tramp with laughter. True comic humour in the face of tragedy became a characteristic theme of all his Hollywood films. The awful truth is turned into laughter, whereby Chaplin portrays the unfortunate situation of his protagonist in a humorous way. With »Goldrush«, Charlie Chaplin wrote film history: The silent movie ranks among the 100 best American films of all times according to the American Film Institute. Chaplin’s comedy takes recourse to the famous Klondike CHARLIE
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