Charlie Chaplin was more than the most famous face of the silent era; he was the cinema’s first moralist. Through his alter ego, the Tramp — bowler hat, cane, and shuffle — Chaplin created not just a comic archetype but a lens through which the 20th century learned to look at itself. His films, withContinue reading “Charlie Chaplin: Comedy, Conscience, and the Cinematic Everyman”
