Poetry and violence in the birth of the silent language: the case of Chaplin

• Autor(a) principal: Marcondes, Ciro Inácio
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Intexto (Porto Alegre)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/intexto/article/view/92285
• topic: Charles Chaplin. Poesia cinematográfica. Cinema silencioso. Violência. Teoria do cinema.; Charles Chaplin. Cinematigraphic poetry. Silent cinema. Violence. Cinema theory.

The career of Charles Chaplin, especially in his phase at Keystone, has a foundation in two forms of violence: the first, the physical violence of the thrusts and punches that his character Charlie throws at his antagonists; And the second, the motor violence, the incessant movement through the film field and through the shots. This work proposes an analysis of this double valence of violence in Chaplin as the founding principle of silent cinematographic poetry: how does this motor and physical forms of violence turn into ballet? Chaplin's trajectory in his short films will be analyzed through a narrative and historical reconstruction of cinema, searching for the birth of filmic poetry.