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Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" (1931) came near the beginning of two eras, the Depression and the talkies, and had fun with both. But it didn't depend upon topical realities for its humor. Chaplin's films age so well, I think, because his situations grow out of basic human hungers such as lust, greed, avarice. Those are the hungers on the other side, of course -- the side inhabited by policemen, millionaires, mayors and boxing promoters. All Charlie sends up against them Is his little Tramp, eternally hopeful, concemed only with escaping from the dilemma of the moment.
"City Lights" was Chaplin's first production after talking movies were introduced. He avoided sound, wisely as it turns out, since the awkward sound equipment of the early days would have trapped his films in sound stages and sets. Chaplin said at the time (and has been endlessly quoted as saying ever since) that comedy is in long shot, tragedy in close-up. He was right, as a moment's thought will reveal, and synchronized sound would have made it necessary for the Tramp to spend too much of his time too close to the camera.
The few sounds he does use in "City Lights" underline the silent comedy without distracting us. In the famous opening scene when the mayor unveils a civic statue to find Charlie sleeping in its arms, the mayor's speech is represented as a series of unintelligible squawks and squeaks. It sounds more speech-like, somehow, than real words would. There's also the sequence after Charlie swallows the whistle and inadvertently stops a concert, hails a cab and surrounds himself with dogs.
Apart from these two scenes (the first no doubt intended to make his feelings about sound unmistakable), the film is silent, except for the original Chaplin musical score. There is a bare minimum of subtitles, too; everything is made perfectly clear by the genius of Chaplin's pantomime.
The story involves some of the Tramp's most familiar adventures. He falls in love with a blind flower-girl, is taken in tow by a drunken millionaire, does a shift as a municipal manure-sweeper (gazing in despair at a parade of horses followed by an elephant) and finally wins the blind girl's gratitude after a term in jail.
"City Lights" includes one of the funniest sporting events ever filmed, the immortal boxing scene in which Charlie's footwork bedazzles both the referee and his opponent. It also includes a great deal of sentiment, which some of the 1931 critics found excessive. I don't think so. Chaplin goes only so far with sentiment, then makes his getaway with a gag.
Sometimes the sentiment and the gag grow so organically out of the situation that you don't know whether to laugh or not. That's the case in the opening sequence with the blind flower-girl. Charlie buys a flower, leaves, tiptoes around the corner, positions himself beside a water tap and gazes at her adoringly. She makes her way to the tap, fills her water can, sloshes it around and throws the water into Charlie's face. His reaction to this misadventure is so complex that comedy hardly seems the word for it.
Note: "City Lights" is the second entry in the Carnegie Theater's seven-part Chaplin Festival, part of a worldwide tribute to Chaplin that includes a special Academy Award on April 10. The Chicago response to the festival has been amazingly strong, even acknowledging that these perfectly preserved Chaplin prints haven't been released in years and won't be shown on television. With a measure of awe in his voice, Oscar A. Brotman, the Carnegie's owner, was telling me the other day that he had "a few hundred" Chaplin season tickets printed up, offering seven admissions for $10. "1 thought that would be enough," he said "I had to print more. You know how many more? SO far, we've sold 10,000 season tickets."
Voracious reader, Master of Library Science (University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill), Little Canada homesteader, wife of Allen, mother of Adrienne and Megan, fiber artist and owner of City Lights Bookstore from 1986 through 2009. Here's a small selection of Joyce's favorite books.
WICKED PLANTS by Amy Stewart is a small book with a poisonous green cover and a long subtitle "The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities." If you had any illusions about plants being 100% upright and beneficial, this book will soon set you straight. It's full of examples of plants that range from killers (white snakeroot) to merely bad neighbors (kudzu). It's also abundantly illustrated with elegant etchings and humorous drawings.
"The Name of the Wind , by newcomer Patrick Rothfuss, comes with excel- lent recommendations and a strong warning. This new heroic fantasy novel, the first in a series, has a page-turning quality that makes you stay up late, ignore your friends and family, and neglect responsibilities. It's the story of Kvothe, born into a family of traveling performers
Alexandra Fuller, who wrote the memoir about growing up in Africa (Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight), here returns to visit her parents who are still living in Africa (in Zambia). She undertakes a strange journey with a white African war veteran named K. to revisit scenes of battle in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) and Mozambique and to meet other veterans of the countries' wars for independence. As in her previous book, she portrays the incredible pain and contradictions that exist in Africa with great sensitivity. Her voice is unique and compelling. -- Joyce Moore
For those of us who enjoyed Haven Kimmel's A Girl Named Zippy, it's time for a second helping. She has a new book that takes up where Zippy left off. This book, She Got Up Off the Couch, tells us not only more about Zippy, but about her mother when she decides to get up off the couch, learn to drive and go back to school. It's funny, but it also digs in much deeper where it resonates with real inspiration.
--Joyce Moore
The Night Journal, by Elizabeth Crook, is a multigenerational novel set in New Mexico. Three richly depicted women span four generations of a family with very deep roots in the southwestern frontier. Hannah Bass wrote detailed journals of her life as it was shaped by the westward progress of the railroad in the late 19th century. Claudia, her (by now elderly) daughter, made her academic career by editing the journals of a mother she barely remembers. Meg, Claudia's grandaughter, has spent her life rebelling against the history of her famous family. I very much enjoyed spending time with these women as they unearth (literally) a part of the saga that had never been told. Crook succeeds in weaving the many threads of the story into a satisfying whole. - Joyce Moore
Francine du Plessix Gray has created a powerful portrait of her parents in the memoir, Them. Alexander Lieberman and Titiana du Plessix were talented Russian emigres who fled occupied Paris in 1940 and soon became one of the most influential couples of the New York fashion world. They were also neurotic, selfish and opportunistic. Their skills as parents were limited. Gray tells their facinating story with affection, but without rose-colored glasses. You meet her colorful Russian grandparents and extended family as well as the many famous and exotic people who socialized with her parents. It's a beautifully written memoir about two people and the cultural milieu/history that they inhabit.
- Joyce Moore
It is a beautifully written book. It begins in 1952 with a fight in a bar based loosely on Burrells, on the North Carolina/South Carolina line south of Cashiers. It ends nearly 20 years later when Carolina Power and Light floods a valley and displaces the people who have lived there for generations. As the waters rise, secrets that have been hidden during those years begin to float to the top. As Lee Smith said, "I read this book straight through. I had to." -- Joyce Moore
Mr. Rash has been named as the first John Parris Appalachian Scholar at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee.
Larimore, with humor and sensitivity, decribes the trials and tribulations of his first year of practicing medicine in Bryson City. Young and idealistic, he describes some of the lessons that he didn?t learn in medical school at Duke University.
From his first delivery (a heifer calf named Walter in his honor) to dealing with resistance from some established doctors, Larimore paints a colorful and moving portrait of a town and its people.
-- Reviewed by Joyce Moore
City Lights Bookstore is in Sylva, North Carolina, a small Main Street town tucked in the heart of the southern Appalachian Mountains. Our goal is to share the literature of the region with the world, and the world of books with our community.
Its enjoyable gameplay with simple execution, easy-to-manage skills and inventory, and informative HUD presentation make Ghostwire: Tokyo an enjoyable experience. Although, it's littered with hold inputs and doesn't feel wonderfully accessible for those who are blind.
While our Ghostwire: Tokyo menu deep dive goes into the settings menu a lot more, there are some accessibility features that can be toggled on here. For example, you can adjust the size of the text for a large number of areas in the game, you can increase the minimap, and enable or disable a compass.
One use of this feature is to follow a trail until it leads you to the target area. How this is achieved is by having a ghost trail remain visible until you reach the next checkpoint where you start the process of following the next portion of the trail.
As you progress through the game, hold inputs become a common feature, holding LT to drain enemy cores to eliminate them, holding a button to confirm a purchase, holding the jump button to glide, holding LT to cleanse Torii gates. There are also hold inputs for charging attacks and capturing spirits around the world.
Once I plugged in my PS5 DualSense controller, I started to feel the more immersive level of play, and honestly, I felt conflicted here. On the one hand, haptics had a useful function in which the controller would rumble lightly when nearby enemies, growing stronger the closer I was.
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