Chaplin Comedy Arts

Charlie Chaplin's comedy movie is the art highly praised by all over the world. Although the movie has developed for decades and experienced from silence to sound and naivety to maturity, people still would like be indulged in Charlie Chaplin's remarkable comedy art with tears and laughs. The masters in movie circles even derived classical element from Charlie Chaplin's movie to mould so many moving characters and representative behaviors. In fact, the TV program of bragging itself "technology rather than art" also benefited from Charlie Chaplin's movie.Charlie Chaplin's movie originated from drama is researched and concerned for the sake of the distinct vagabond vivid, unique comedy art and deep society-criticized value. As far as performance is concerned, there are close relations between Charlie Chaplin's movie and three major dramas. The perfection of Charlie Chaplin's comedy lies in his performance bursting out completely from the heart, the strange comedy effect and evolution of facial makeup that not only have the general character of performance system of three major dramas, but also make the advantages of that dramas to explore his new way.In subsequent movies, we can still feel Charlie Chaplin's influence so that we can cite so many examples at a draught, such as "the Beautiful Life", "White", "Shoot Pianist to Death", "Edward, Hand of Scissors" and so on. To some extent, Charlie Chaplin's comedy quality also has deep effect on China's Cheng Long and his movie. The combination of Charlie Chaplin's dumb art with swordsman tradition, culture characteristic and times spirit of China push the Cheng Long's acting comedy ahead.Comedy was a kind of drama arts previously. After the TV media appears, comedy begins to depend on the media to get rid of the constraint of the form so as to get close to common people's life much more. The representatives of that are, for instance, scene comedy, all-around show and so on. In other words, the TV is started from imitating the movie while the successful experience of the movie enriches and develops the TV art. the comedy art established by Charlie Chaplin which contains truth,virtue and beauty inspires the popularity of the TV art. It deserves to be concerned by people in the field of television.The article abandons the traditional viewpoint on the study of Charlie Chaplin and reappraises the influence of the Charlie Chaplin's movie to aftertime on the basis of the art individuals of drama, movie and TV that are independent but closely related. Furthermore, the article also hope that the research can not only make people loving Charlie Chaplin expand the vision to find out about him and his movie even more, but also make people knowing Charlie Chaplin understand the unique artistic charm of movie.What is more, the author wishes that the article could reflect the research spirit of innovation that it is indispensable to a graduate student.