The Circus is one of Chaplin’s finest. There were people who said that they did not find his historical comedy “funny”. One could argue that a man sliding a banana peel in 1916 was as funny as watching the same footage 100 years later and it should still be just as funny.
Then there’s the fact that a lot of Chaplin’s comedies have been stolen and repeated thousands of times in the movies since then and now, and therefore no longer sound funny, it does. so familiar and “old” — but we should continue to remember that Charlie did it first. Also, keep in mind that Chaplin is making movies for audiences around the world that don’t depend on a language that other cultures can’t understand, the sound will be complicated, requiring a lengthy translation process. time. Humor should be mostly physical and direct, essentially natural. Chaplin’s brilliance was in having the imagination to form a sense of humor in such a limited setting. Sure, he seems less humorous these days but one should watch with a sense of cinema history and understand how innovative, creative and original he was in his day, considered was the most famous and funniest man in the world at that time. And the simple truth is, the majority of his comedies are still humorous and highly entertaining, regardless of the “old-fashioned”, “old-fashioned” aspect. Let’s not forget his ingenious ability to combine the sick element with his comedy,
