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Modern Times (w/ Pedro Ángel Rivera Muñoz)
Movies vs. Capitalism
Chaplin's Life and Work Is Not About That
Chaplin really lived through the poverty he's depicted in his films. He didn't know what poverty was about and he really lived through it. And all the all those forms of oppression he had fixed in his films, he lived through them. This was personal to him. At the same time, he became a rich man. So he became kind of like the emblem, the icon of the rags to riches mythology that capitalism promotes. Here he is. If you work hard, you can go from ragged to riches he did. However, he didn't buy into that myth, even though he experienced it.
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