The Tramp

The Tramp (Charlot in several languages), also known as The Little Tramp, was British actor Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character and an icon in world cinema during the era of silent film. As his name suggests, he's a poor, broke tramp, who's homeless and often wonders around his city.
He's always portrayed by the late Charlie Chaplin.
==Personality==
He's usually portrayed as a childlike, bumbling but generally good-hearted character who is most famously portrayed as a vagrant who endeavors to behave with the manners and dignity of a gentleman despite his actual social status. However, while he is ready to take what paying work is available, he also uses his cunning to get what he needs to survive and escape the authority figures who will not tolerate his antics.
==Kid Auto Races in Venice==
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==The Kid==
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==The Gold Rush==
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==City Lights==
In this film, The Tramp is first seen when a monument to Peace and Prosperity and unveiled before a large crowd. When the giant set is taken off, Tramp's is discovered blissfully sleeping in the central figure's lap. He's told to climb from the monument, and Tramp embarrasses himself while doing so. 
That afternoon, Tramp was taking an innocent stroll down a busy street. He comes across two newspaper boys who taunt him, take his cane and make fun of his tattered, shabby clothes, which he responds to by removing the ragged tips of his gloves to aggressively snap his fingers in their faces. He stops along the way in front of a shop window and shows interest in a female nude statue in the window but he pretends to be an aesthetic art critic to hide the fact. Not to long afterwards, Tramp enters and exits an expensive parked limousine in a traffic jam to avoid a motorcycle policeman. There in front of him is a flower-selling blind girl. She hears the limo door slam, assuming he is a rich millionaire. She offers him a flower, a boutonniere - his first reaction is a flirtatious one (prior to finding out she was blind). He is smitten by her and gives her his last coin for the single flower for his buttonhole. Then, after she thinks he has left in a limo (she hears another limo door slam) without asking for his change, Tramp tiptoes back to sit silently. Entranced, he watches her adoringly. As the girl changes the water for her flowers at the fountain, she accidently throws a bucket of dirty water from a rinsed-out container in the Tramp's face. 
That evening, that blind girl returns home - she lives at home with her grandmother. Once at home, the blind girl dreams and longs for more visits from who she thinks is a rich man.
That night, a drunk and depressed man is attempting to commit suicide at the harbor. The Tramp comes down the steps and moons over (and smells) the flower the blind girl gave him. He notices and suicide attempt (via noose around his neck the man was going to use to drown himself with and large stone being thrown), and puts a stop to it while also encouraging the man to be brave. The man tries suicide again, but unintentionally gets Tramp inside the noose, and causes him to get pulled into the river instead. The Tramp nearly drowns and both of them end up in the water, although the Tramp succeeded in rescuing the man from drowning himself. After they scramble ashore, the two of them become buddies, and the man exclaims he was his friend for life. 
The man brings his new-found friend back to his elegant mansion to warm up, and turns out to be a millionaire. The duo have a few strong champagne toasts to their friendship but he Tramp realizes the man's butler doesn't like him for some reason. The millionaire becomes depressed about his marital situation, reminded by the butler's news, and attempts suicide again with a revolver, but the Tramp prevents a second suicidal attempt on his life. The millionaire brightens up and they go out to a night club together. The Tramp's crazy antics cause a series of accidents to occur there. He slips on the polished floor, and sets fire to a lady's dress with his discarded cigar piece which he puts out with seltzer water. After a brief floor show - an Apache dance - the drunken Tramp tries to save the female dancer from her rough partner. The rhythmic beat of the dancing possesses the Tramp. First, he passionately and wildly whirls an unsuspecting woman around on the dance floor. And then he takes a waiter with a food tray as his partner. Exhausted by the energy he has expended, he falls stiffly backward, collapsing into the arms of the millionaire.
Early the next morning, the two of them drive home in the millionaire's Rolls-Royce. The Tramp calls his companion out for his reckless driving, and the latter responds by forcing the Tramp to drive. They cross over sidewalks, and narrowly avoid other cars. When they arrive back at the mansion, Tramp was allowed to keep to limo for himself. He notices the blind flower girl again and is lent some money to purchase some flowers from her. The Tramp drives her home in the limo, while the blind girl continues to think he's a rich man. She thanks him for his kindness and states he's always welcome over to his place. Tramp returns to the limo, but the millionaire was clearheaded, couldn't remember being friends with him and kicked him out.
That afternoon, the millionaire gets drunk again and regains his memories with his friend the Tramp. The man throws a party in the Tramp's honor and more hijinks ensue including an incident with a whistle.
The next morning, he wakes up in a double bed with the millionaire, who was once again sober and kicked Tramp out again. Disillusioned again, the Tramp tries to find the blind Girl at her usual street corner location, but she isn't there. Looking through her home's window, he learns that she is sick in bed with a fever, attended by a doctor and her grandmother.
The Tramp is determined to pay for a doctor and become her benefactor, so he takes a job as a street cleaner, a sanitary engineer with a shovel and a trash barrel. Shuffling along in his white street-sweeping uniform, he sees the natural remains of a horse-drawn cart - and shovels up the manure. He turns away from following a long procession of mules, and then he does a double-take when an elephant ambles down the street, part of a circus animal procession. Back in the girl's home, her grandmother shields her from the bad news - they have received a Final Notice of $22 rent due, facing eviction from the dispossessing landlord who has signed the notice. The blind girl remains hopeful the man would provide them with the money. At lunch time during his work break another mishap occurs and The Tramp is warned about being back on time for his job.
The tramp was having trouble continuing to live up to his millionaire/gentleman act, but he kept it up anyway. He brings food over to the girl at her home, delighted at being able to play the role as breadwinner. The blind girl's grandmother is not at home when he calls. The Tramp reads to her from the newspaper about a Viennese eye specialist in town who can cure her blindness. Tramp quickly gets worried when he realizes the girl would find out he wasn't the rich man she imagined. The Tramp discovers their final notice and how the girl was at risk of losing her house and reads it out loud so the girl can hear it, upsetting her. But he promises he'd pay the rent first thing in the morning. But this was easier said than done considering he was late for his job and got fired for it. So then, he is enticed into making some "easy money" outside the Main Street boxing arena.
That night, Tramp enters a fixed boxing contest so he could earn some money and pay the girl's rent. As a stand-in, he makes a promise the his purse winnings 50-50 following the match, if he doesn't get hurt. He believes that the fight is fixed in his favor. But things get tricky when his boxing opponent Eddie Mason is warned in a telegram that the cops are after him and he runs off. He is replaced with a massive, muscle-bound substitute in a genuine contest. The terms of the $50 bout are agreed upon: winner takes all. The new prizefighter is alarmed by the Tramp's friendly overtures. Terrified of being beaten up, the Tramp watches a black boxer superstitiously worship a lucky horseshoe, and kiss and rub a rabbit's foot behind both ears. The Tramp imitates the boxer. Tramp's tries to make the half money split with his new opponent, but he doesn't accept it. He notices the black boxer had lost his match, and tried rubbing off his charms.
In the boxing match The Tramp defensively dances around in the ring to avoid his opponent's punches, nimbly hiding and ducking for safety behind the tall referee, and slipping away from his opponent at one point to leave his opponent facing the referee. Later in the bout, the bell rope becomes wrapped around the Tramp's neck. When he is knocked down, the rope pulls on the bell and luckily, the round is declared over. But unfortunately, when he turns to go to his corner for a rest, the Tramp's movement rings the bell again, starting the next round and the Tramp's knocked out cold and loses the match.
But the Tramp didn't give up, he wandered into the city to find a different way to make money. The drunk millionaire reappears, just back from a trip to Europe. They are reunited and give each other a hearty embrace. The Tramp is re-invited inside the mansion, where a pair of robbers are waiting to attack after catching a glimpse of the cash. The millionaire promises he'd take care of the girl. The Tramp is given $1,000: the money needed for the blind girl's operation that will restore her sight. But just after stuffing the banknotes into his pocket, the robbers emerge and knock the millionaire out with a blackjack. When the Tramp summons the police by phone, the burglars flee.
The police arrive, but naturally they suspect the Tramp is the thief, and the millionaire's hostile butler accuses him of robbing his master and demands he be searched. The Tramp looks guilty, with $1,000 in his pocket. Arguing his case with the policeman, the Tramp forgets that he has the cop's gun in his hand that is effectively keeping the man back. Suddenly noticing the gun, he hands it back to the policeman - and then realizes his foolish mistake. The schizophrenic millionaire, snapped back to his senses with the blow to his head, does not recognize Tramp as his friend and accuses him of the robbery. The Tramp's left with no choice but to "steal" the money he has been freely given to again pose as a millionaire to save the Blind Girl. He snatches the wad of money, gets away, and is able to reach far enough to get to the girl's home. He places all the money for rent and for a sight-restoring operation into the girl's hands, and even gives her $100 that he had saved in his pocket for himself. As he bids her farewell, he tells her that he will be going away for awhile. She again mistakenly believes, in her blindness, that he is her millionaire benefactor. He's caught by the police and arrested on the street corner and spends nine months in prison for the robbery he never did.
Finally, when he's released from prison in Autumn, The Tramp is wondering around the street, beat down and depressed from his experience . Meanwhile, the girl and her grandmother now run a successful flower shop. The girl has had her sight restored with an operation - thanks to the Tramp's support. The girl's still thinking about where her benefactor was after all these months, or what he even looked like for that matter. He's hoping to meet the girl again and he passes her as she was watching through a window.
When he notices the girl again through the shop window, he is transfixed with absolute joy, since she is the one that he loved and sacrificed himself for. He grins and beams at her with a melting smile. The girl turns and makes an ironic, laughing comment to her grandmother inside the shop: "I've made a conquest!"
Although the Tramp tries to walk away and evade her, she stops laughing and pities him. Determined to help him, she calls him back and outside the shop, in a sympathetic act of charity, offers him a fresh white rose to replace the tattered, wilting one he picked up from the gutter. She also offers him a coin that she has just taken from the flower shop register.
When she takes his hand to press money into it, it suddenly dawns on her who he is. With her acute sense of touch, she recognizes the familiar feel of his hands. As she runs her hand up the ragged fellow's coat from his shoulder to his face, she realizes that he is her mysterious benefactor - a shabbily-dressed little vagabond. They recognize and see each other for the first time, reunited, face-to-face, the Tramp feeling many emotions at once - shame, fear, bravery, pain, tentativeness, love, bliss and joy. At first, she appears slightly dismayed and confused - he looks so completely different from what she expected - and then she is moved. The Tramp smiles and his eyes light up when she recognizes and accepts him for who he is.
She grasps his hand to her breast. The Tramp stands frozen as he holds his finger to his mouth and places the gift of the flower between his teeth. The truth is revealed - she can 'see now' through his pretense - nothing more can be said.
==Modern Times==
In the Tramp's final film before the character was retired, he works in a steelworks factory known as the Electro Steel Corp as a factory worker. He's seen tightening bolts on an endless series of machine parts. He's one of many workers who were being exploited. He's an extremely dedicated worker as he would hold wrenches in both hands to tighten nuts on a long stream of steel plates carried on the conveyor belt production line. The foreman would consistently urge him to keep up with the belt, and even bully him. Small gesture or pauses would cause disorder among the assembly line. He was so deeply dedicated to his job, he was still traumatized from his constant work and couldn't stop his jerky, rhythmic movements from his constant nut-tightening. He's chosen to be a test subject for a feeding machine meant to be used for the workers, but the machine shorts out and goes crazy leaving him unable to eat the food. After that's over, he's sent back to work on the assembly line, which gets sped up this time around. The stress of having to keep up with the machine, slowly drives him insane and causes some sanity loss as he's engulfed by the assembly line. He gets caught on the belt and has to lie prone and gets dragged, swallowed and eaten up by the wheels, gears, and cogs of the monstrous machine. His body snakes its way through the gears until the production line's direction is reversed and he finally emerges free of the machine. At this point, Tramp has completely lost it as he tightens everything in sight and pulls countless switches and levers, causing some explosions in the building. He's carried away in a car to be treated psychiatric ward for his nervous breakdown, while also getting fired.
He's cured of his nervous breakdown, but now that his job was gone, has to start a new life. He's recommended to avoid any excitement, and joins a large number of unemployed people, since the economy is depressed, and factories are closed. He picks up a red flag that had fallen off a passing truck, he gets mistaken for a rally leader of a group of Communist agitators who closed in behind him. As a result, he's arrested and hailed off to prison.
While in prison, he meets his brutish cellmate. During a jailhouse lunch, a drug squad was searching for smuggled nose-powder. A nearby inmate stores his powder into a salt shaker while nobody was looking, to avoid being caught. In the lunch room, Tramp applied some salt onto his food, unintentionally taking in some of the nose-power which gets him high. As he's being sent back to his cell, he takes a wrong turn and gets lost thanks to the powder. Although he does manage to find his way back to the cell corridor, he comes across a jailbreak in progress. He's able to dodge the gun fire and unwittingly stops the jailbreak by knocking convicts out with a nearby door, and releasing the guards locked in a cell.
As a reward for stopping a jailbreak, Tramp got his own private jail cell, that was rather luxurious. Later, the sheriff grants him his freedom with a pardon, although the Tramp is nervous about the outside world and wants to stay in his cell a bit longer.
Back on the street, the Tramp uses an enthusiastic letter of recommendation from the sheriff to get work in a shipyard. He's accepted, and the foreman orders him to find a large wedge -- he removes one with a sledgehammer and accidently and prematurely "launches" it down a slide into the harbor, sinking a half-finished ship. The Tramp promptly leaves, knowing that he will be fired anyway. He deeply wants to go return to prison. Alone and hungry, he finds that life outside prison is fraught with perils. So he tries - vainly - to get arrested again. He takes the blame when a gamin -- a young, lonely, poor orphaned girl on the run from child-care and police authorities -- knocks into him as she is trying to flee after grabbing a loaf of bread from a baker's van for her hungry sisters. But the ploy doesn't work when a female witness confirms the gamin was the thief, causing the gamin to get arrested instead.
The Tramp tries another strategy to get arrested. He enters a cafeteria and orders a large meal that he knows he can't pay for. He enjoys the meal, and then announces that he is unable to pay the tab to the person at the cash register. He has alerted a policeman to be present. As he is being arrested, he also "purchases" some cigars from a cigar stand outside. This time, he is successful and is jailed for both offenses. On the way back to prison in the same paddy wagon, he and the gamin meet. Tramp asks her if she remembered him and the bread. Being the gentleman he is, he offers her his handkerchief for her tears. They both seize a chance to escape when a fortuitous swerve to avoid an accident occurs and they fall out the back. Rather than return to jail, he decides to follow the gamin and they both reach the outskirts of the city.
The gamin tells the Tramp about how she was homeless, and the duo dreams about living in a beautiful, vibrant home together, and Tramp vow to get one even if it meant working for it. Tramp applies for a job as a night watchman in a department store, to replace the present watchman who has had an accident and broken his leg. He's allowed to work and he sneaks the gamin into the back entrance of the store. They stock up with sandwiches and cake from the food counter. On the Fourth Floor in the Toy Department, the Tramp performs a risky, blind-folded rollerskating act to amuse the gamin. On the Fifth Floor, in the Bedroom Display, the Tramp warms her with a white fur coat and tucks her safely into one of the store's luxurious beds. As he must go around the store and punch the time clocks, he promises to wake her before the store opens. Then while on his rounds, wearing roller-skates, the Tramp stumbles into a gang of burglars who order him to stay where he was, but he couldn't since he was on an escalator. They recognize the Tramp from the steel mills and tell him they were just hungry.
The next morning, the gamin wakes up on her own and rushes out of the store. At 9:30, after the store has reopened, the Tramp awakens on top of the counter in the women's apparel department, where he's discovered by a store clerk and a customer. He is taken away by police in a police patrol wagon and finds himself in prison once again. 
Ten days later, Tramp is released and the gamin is there to greet him. She is overjoyed to see him, and smiles, saying she had found a home for them. Tramp follows the gamin to a run-down, dilapidated lakeside shack where he gives the home a name: "It's Paradise." Propping up sagging roof beams, the gamin was aware it wasn't Buckingham Palace. He falls into the lake behind the shack when he leans on the back door. He sleeps outside in the doghouse for the night and the next morning attempts swimming, diving head first into two feet of water. There, they set up a home. As his relationship evolves with the resilient, homeless gamin, he establishes a friendly, protective and loving relationship with her.
Entering the shack for a fine breakfast she has prepared, the front door beam swings into his head, and his dining table chair sinks into the rotten floorboards. Their meal consists of large pieces of uncut bread and open tin cans of liquid. He opens the Daily News and sees the headlines that his old factory is reopening and rehiring. Above the newspaper's banner, a title reads: Prosperity Has Turned the Corner. Tramp's pleased that he could finally get a real job and they'd be able to get a proper home. He can hardly contain himself as he eagerly runs off to the factory. The gamin waves goodbye expectantly.
Upon reaching the factory, Tramp has to push his way through hundreds of other workers in the crowd seeking employment. He is the last one to sneak through the gate to be offered a job. He becomes the mechanic's assistant. With a large oil can and tool box, they begin to tackle the problem with the machinery. The oil can and the mechanic's coat are pressed flat, leaving the mechanic is reasonably upset.
They try to set the huge machine in motion, but they just succeed in crushing the tool box between two large rotating gears in the process, which then it spits said box out. Then the machine malfunctions, catching Tramp's boss in the cogs of the machine. The boss passes through the entire transport system, and emerges at various points in the wheels. The mechanic cries to his assistant to help him out. When the lunch break whistle sounds, the Tramp attempts to serve lunch to his half-swallowed boss - which was nearly impossible since the boss's head is the only body part sticking out of the machine. Ingenuously, the Tramp uses a funnel to direct coffee from a thermos into his mouth. Then he tries the same with whole roasted chicken and a piece of pie which aren't nearly as easy. After lunch, the workers go on strike, which puts the Tramp out of work and back on the streets where police prohibit gathering of workers. The Tramp is pushed around for loitering, and then accidentally steps onto a board that propels a brick into the head of a policeman. He is severely beaten and off to prison yet again.
Meanwhile, one week later, the gamin goes to the Red Moon Cafe known for having singing waiters. In her impromptu audition, she is recognized by the owner and is offered a job dancing in the little cabaret. Upon Tramp's release from jail one week later, a transformed gamin awaits and hugs him cheerfully and he immediately notices the changes in her appearance. The gamin tells him that she has obtained a job for him. In the cafe, she assures the management that Tramp would be a good employee. The owner asks if he coul wait on table and sing. She answers for the Tramp, promising that he can. The owner agrees to offer a trial job. But juvenile authorities noticed the gamin for the officers and the County Juvenile Division issues a WANTED for vagrancy notice.
While waiting on the customers that night, Tramp's leg is caught up a dog leash while carrying a loaded tray. In the kitchen, he drills holes in a big block of cheese to make swiss cheese. An irate customer complains about the service. The maitre d' rebukes the Tramp for his deficient waiting on tables. Upset, the inexperienced Tramp enters the OUT door of the kitchen instead of the IN door, knocking over a co-worker carrying a huge tray. While delivering a large tray of roast duck held high in the air, he is swept away by a crowd of dancers. The roast duck gets stuck in the chandelier, is finally retrieved and brought to the customer's table, but then becomes a rugby football in a game with drunken guests.
The owner realizes he has failed as a waiter, but gives him one final chance: singing. His appearance is preceded by that of four singing waiters. The gamin assists him in preparation with rehearsal. After a few false practice trials, he realizes he couldn't remember. So she suggests scribbling the words down on one of his loose cuffs so he can remember them. The practice goes perfectly, and he confidently strolls out to the center of the cafe floor for his premiere as a singing waiter. A dramatic introductory dance and gesture with his arms sends both cuffs flying. So he had to stall and improvise. He's encouraged by the gamin to sing anyway, and so he makes up nonsense gibberish full of foreign-sounding phrases.
Just as his future as a singing waiter seems bright, and he is brought out for an encore, orphanage/juvenile officials show up in the club to take the gamin away as an escaped vagrant. The Tramp grabs her and they run away, tossing chairs into the path of their pursuers. The two of them successfully escape, and sabotage their chances of becoming waiters. 
At dawn the next day, they are sitting at the side of a country road. He is fanning his bare feet before putting on his shoes. She has all her worldly possessions in a tied-up ball. She cries and complains to him that it wasn't worth trying, but Tramp encourages her to say optimistic about the future. The duo optimistically walk arm in arm into the sunrise before a hilly horizon. Rather than departing alone, Tramp is silhouetted with his love against the background, walking down the dusty road toward the future for the last time.
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