Film historian Mark Cousins has written that Chaplin "changed not only the imagery of cinema, but also its sociology and grammar" and claims that Chaplin was as important to the development of comedy as a genre as D.W. Griffith was to drama.
Sejarawan film Mark Cousins menyatakan bahwa Chaplin "tak hanya mengubah pencitraan dari perfilman, namun juga sosiologi dan tata bahasanya" dan mengklaim bahwa Chaplin berpengaruh pada pengembangan genre komedi seperti halnya D.W. Griffith pada genre drama.