Talk:Modern Times (film)

message: Why is the synopsis missing?
Synopsis missing? I see a synopsis. But maybe that's just me. However, I did notice the synopsis seems to list most of the jobs Chaplin has throughout the movie, but it does not list the part in which he does something relating to a boat/ship.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.68.74.43 (talk) 03:31, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Synopsis

message: the paragraph that starts "This scene..." should be edited. It's not clear what "This" is referring to.
Amirman 05:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: grammar

message: ===Spanish===
I noticed that the banners at the demosntration are in English and in Spanish. Were there many Hispanic workers in California by that time or was it a wink to the Spanish-language moviegoers?
:"By that time"? Check the history of California.
===The song===
The song that Chaplin sings, is in pure gibberish? Is there any meaning? It seems to me that there are hints of French and Italian. Is the music original? I think I have heard it before watching the film.
:It is gibberish, of course! :-) --SeeFood
        It's called "the nonsense song"!
::It's a total nonsense, only a few words mean something, like "voulez-vouz" and "taximeter" --213.91.184.25 (talk) 21:42, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, much like Hynkl's Teutonic-sounding gibberish in The Great Dictator. "Strunk!"Coloneldoctor (talk) 02:47, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

text: If only the illiterates of the planet would be so kind...Coloneldoctor (talk) 02:48, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Languages

message: The song that Chaplin sings, is in pure gibberish? Is there any meaning? It seems to me that there are hints of French and Italian. Is the music original? I think I have heard it before watching the film.
:It is gibberish, of course! :-) --SeeFood
        It's called "the nonsense song"!
::It's a total nonsense, only a few words mean something, like "voulez-vouz" and "taximeter" --213.91.184.25 (talk) 21:42, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, much like Hynkl's Teutonic-sounding gibberish in The Great Dictator. "Strunk!"Coloneldoctor (talk) 02:47, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The song

message: Man, I spent a good deal of time fixing the grammar in this article.  I notice that my repairs have been undone by some very poor and confusing sentences.  Oh well, that is wikipedia.  Advice, if you don't have a good grasp of English grammar, please don't make grammatical repairs.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.108.64.240 (talk) 06:31, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If only the illiterates of the planet would be so kind...Coloneldoctor (talk) 02:48, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Grammar

message: One oddity that struck me while watching the factory scenes just now, is that in several aspects the film makes significant use of CCTV, or the implication of CCTV technologies (the factory manager several times uses a "videophone" (for want of a better word) to communicate commands to the operator in the control centre, "Man". Also, in the lunchtime scene, Chaplain is spotted malingering by the factory manager in a very "Big Brother-ish" scene.
I'd be surprised if this was the absolutely earliest implication of TV technologies in the cinemas, but outside "SciFi", it's likely to be a contender. It also throws some more light on the political implications of the movie, but that would take someone with a wider knowledge of (and interest in) movie history than I have to write up.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by A Karley (talk • contribs) 16:27, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really a contender, I'm afraid, even outside of SciFi.  Off the top of my head, the 1933 comedy film "International House" has an entire plot that centres around the development of a new type of television.  That's a full three years prior to Modern Times.  172.162.49.201 (talk) 16:58, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Technologies

message: The scene when the Tramp goes crazy, picks up an oil gun, climbs up the iron chains, whields the oil gun like a saber and gives the audience a short swashbuckler-speach: is it taken from a certain movie? When I was a kid and saw Modern Times first, I immediately knew what was meant when Chaplin acted like that, but up to date I still don't know which exact movie the scene is taken from or inspired by. The Black Pirate with Douglas Fairbanks, maybe, or Captain Blood with Errol Flynn? Does anyone know and may put it in the article? --JakobvS (talk) 12:19, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pirate Style in the Factory: Where is it from? 

message: A minor point perhaps, but worth noting. The movie title cards and credits identify Paulette Goddard's charcter as a "Gamin" while the article here uses "Gamine". Both mean the same thing, an orphaned or neglected child or street urchin with "Gamin" the masculine, and "Gamine" the feminine. The article does use the technically correct term for the gender of the charcter, but in the movie she is termed "Gamin" which would seem to be her offical designation in lieu of a name. This may have been an error on Chaplin's part or a deliberate usage. In either case the article should note it. Thoughts? Mediatech492 (talk) 16:35, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: As no-one has responded I'll assume no-one objects to changing "Gamine" the article to "Gamin". The artist's intentions were clearly to call the character Gamin. Mediatech492 (talk) 16:13, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Gamine or Gamin?

message: "The film did attract criticism for being almost completely silent, despite the movie industry having long since embraced the talking picture."
The second part seems irrelevant to the first. Wolf O'Donnel (talk) 01:01, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing sentence 

message: Australian television (SBS) has just shown a newer restoration from MK2, which is prefaced:
"The first photochemical restoration of Modern Times was carried out by Cineteca di Bologna at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in 2000.  In the same year, thanks to a meticulous, 14-month long restoration of Charlie Chaplin's symphonic score, the film was accompanied for the first time by live orchestras world-wide, allowing a full discovery of its extraordinary richness and complexity.
In 2013 Cineteca di Bologna and the Criterion Collection joined forces to improve the previous restoration by employing digital technology:  the fine grain, struck from the original nitrate camera negative, was scanned wet-gate to remove traces of dirt, white spots and numerous scratches. The image was also stabilized."
Would somebody with appropriate expertise please incorporate this information?  Errantios (talk) 11:00, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restorations 

message: I am moving an uncited, argumentative section of the article here so that it can be rewritten to fit encyclopedic style.
 nonmodernist (talk) 17:31, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section needs rewriting 

message: "Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance has written of the reception and legacy of this classic comedy"
Is it ok to call something a "classic" as a factual statement in an encyclopedia? Isn't it more of a subjective thing rather than saying "it is widely regarded as a classic"? Is it against NPOV? I'm asking out of curiosity. Dornwald (talk) 01:50, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Classic"