Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" and Keaton's "Sherlock, Jr." were considered be two of the best comedies of all time. In City Lights, Chaplin stared as a tramp who tried to help a blind girl. In Sherlick, Jr, Keaton acted as a projectionist who tried to become a detective while being accused as a thief of stealing watch. Although two stories and the ways of performance were quite different, I noticed a common point between these two movies: both actors successfully presented the life and emotion of "the small figures" in dramatic ways.
Found asleep in the arm of a statue, Chaplin showed up with a derby hat, a tight coat, oversized pants and shoes. The dumb and embarrassing action in front of the crowd was just the appetizer of the movie. Later in the story, the same figure with ridicules cloth and manner kept repeating in screen. In one scene, the tramp wanted to earn some money from boxing. In the locker room and on the boxing stage, we could notice some of the characteristics of......
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