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What's fascinating is that even while the sentimentality swelled, the Tramp never lost his edge.

SongMeanings is a place for discussion and discovery. According to Chaplin's much-quoted recollection of the day, the idea for the outfit, and the character of the little Tramp, came to him after only a moment's thought: "On the way to the wardrobe I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. If you look at American films from around the time of Chaplin's screen debut, tramps are the villains: housebreakers, street muggers and train robbers.

He's a pleasure-seeking anti-authoritarian and a flirt, often prone to sneaking a drink, but not because he doesn't have the money to pay for it. In fact, the Tramp was far more popular than he was. I'll be fine I'll be fine The character Chaplin plays in those early Keystone one-reelers is not the Tramp of The Kid or City Lights. Despite their many differences, in each film the story is to do with the Tramp's problematic visibility.

City Lights also ends on a close-up of the Tramp, smiling nervously at the woman he loves, who is seeing him for the first time – a question hovering in the air as to whether she will return his affection now she knows his low-rent identity. Red knights coming to Rome Blood in the streets Kingdoms die overthrown Lay down your lives or be slaves to a fool When it all falls down Freedom stolen in sight Do you love destruction or do you want life? The city's Slapstick festival, itself celebrating a decade on the job, kicked up its heels with a sumptuous gala screening of Chaplin's late silent masterpiece City Lights, and some searching questions about who exactly we were celebrating. This is the year of the Tramp. By the time this 40-minute mini-feature was released, the war was almost over, but the audiences who (literally) tore down cinema doors to see the film, were thrilled to see their beloved Tramp in uniform, and capturing the kaiser too.

It would be an over-simplification to say that Chaplin resolved these tensions at a blow by making his war comedy Shoulder Arms, but the Tramp's appearance in the trenches was certainly well-timed.

And it's no coincidence either that all the while that Chaplin was refining his onscreen identity, his own reputation was under attack. His main defence against the barrage of white feathers was that his wealth and influence rendered him more valuable to his country in Los Angeles than at the front – which was placing him at a far cry from the underdog he played on screen. Due to the global reach of Chaplin's fame, there will be events to mark the anniversary around the world all year, but this weekend, the corks were popped in Bristol. Press baron Lord Northcliffe joined the throng of "slacker" accusations and Chaplin was mocked in popular songs and cartoons. It's Kid Auto Races that the centenary springs from – filmed just after Mabel's Strange Predicament, it was released two days earlier.

Thanks to Shadyfan, Alex, Jaelena, Harley for correcting these lyrics. It was no mean trick to present a vagrant as a hero, or a lover. Cutouts of the Tramp were propped up by soldiers in British trenches "so the Germans would die laughing" and his movies were projected on the ceilings of military hospitals so wounded soldiers could enoy a morale-raising chuckle from their beds. The College Dropout. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies.

See all albums. He's meaner, tougher and certainly not a rough sleeper.

But, as Chaplin biographer David Robinson argued on the weekend, there was no such easy birth. All these firing shots and making ground It's way too hard to cope, but I still can't let you go 'Cause when it all falls down, then whatever When it don't work out for the better If we just ain't right, and it's time to say goodbye When it all falls down, when it all falls down.

The Slapstick festival afforded the opportunity to watch Chaplin both in City Lights, which took years to make and was finally released in 1931, and in Kid Auto Races, shot in one day in 1914, within a few hours of each other. The moustache was added to age his 24-year-old face without masking his expressions and that, according to Chaplin's autobiography, was that.

A centenary is more than excuse enough for a party, even if the birthday boy is a work of fiction – a beggar, even, with ill-fitting shoes, a violent streak and bow legs. By this time, Chaplin was a global success, he had transferred to the Essanay studio for a toothsome $1,250-a-week salary and recruited Edna Purviance as a leading lady. I wanted everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large."

Mon 27 Jan 2014 13.03 EST It was no mean trick to present a vagrant as a hero, or a lover.

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"I really thought they were coming to get me," he later said. Chaplin had to strike a delicate balance. As film historian Kevin Brownlow detailed at the festival, even before the introduction of conscription in 1916 there were calls in the British press for Chaplin to return home from the US and enlist in the British army. All rights reserved. While Chaplin's origin story for the Tramp is a beautiful piece of movie myth-making, the truth is inevitably more complex and more interesting – it took much longer for the little fellow to grow into the Tramp, and longer still for the Tramp to become a hero. If you want to see Chaplin as a bona fide derelict, says Robinson, you have to wait until his 1915 film, The Tramp. The Tramp is a smart film that folds pathos neatly into the slapstick, with our hero playing a kind-hearted drifter down on his luck who finds welcome and work at a farm. The first film ends with Chaplin gurning grotesquely at the camera, a final confrontation to give the audience a jolt and a giggle.

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