In the beginning of 1919 Chaplin, together with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D. W. Griffith, established the new motion picture company - United Artists, which allowed to have full creative control and funding over movies made by filmmakers themselves. Charlie, still being under contract, with First National, therefore wanted to buy himself out of it but they refused because he still owed them six more movies. His frustration with the company and failed first marriage altogether influenced his next movie greatly.
"Sunnyside" that came out in June of 1919 showed a somewhat unconventional Chaplin character - a farm boy who lives in a small village and works as Jack of all trades for a mean old little man whose only purpose is to kick his servant in the back. But Charlie doesn't mind all that beating and disrespect being completely head over hills about a girl, played magnificently by Edna Purviance - with each role Charles gave her she gave all her heart and soul back and without saying a word, just playing with her eyes the viewer can feel the romance, drama and love.
The father of Edna's character is against Charlie's fondness towards his daughter like any other father would be if his daughter were seeing someone as poor, carefree and unprosperous as Chaplin's character. But love works in mysterious ways and a person who cherishes another person for who he is, not what he has, deserves all the love in the world.
It's funny how a 100-year-old and a 28-minute-long movie can make you appreciate the place you live in and the people around you when most of the new ones can't. Thanks to the genius of Charlie Chaplin I was able to have become a better person and human being and I only hope that his movies would have the same impact on others.
"Sunnyside" that came out in June of 1919 showed a somewhat unconventional Chaplin character - a farm boy who lives in a small village and works as Jack of all trades for a mean old little man whose only purpose is to kick his servant in the back. But Charlie doesn't mind all that beating and disrespect being completely head over hills about a girl, played magnificently by Edna Purviance - with each role Charles gave her she gave all her heart and soul back and without saying a word, just playing with her eyes the viewer can feel the romance, drama and love.
The father of Edna's character is against Charlie's fondness towards his daughter like any other father would be if his daughter were seeing someone as poor, carefree and unprosperous as Chaplin's character. But love works in mysterious ways and a person who cherishes another person for who he is, not what he has, deserves all the love in the world.
It's funny how a 100-year-old and a 28-minute-long movie can make you appreciate the place you live in and the people around you when most of the new ones can't. Thanks to the genius of Charlie Chaplin I was able to have become a better person and human being and I only hope that his movies would have the same impact on others.