the tramp is a really important part of the chaplin persona. he had obviously grown up in south london in very trying circumstances, very serious poverty, and he had also grown up with the musical. so he had known about all the different characters, in fact one of his earliest popular characters was actually an aristocrat who would drink and swell and toff, but when he created the tramp persona he immediately went to someone that was visually arresting and already very popular in american culture, sort of vaudeville comedy acts. and it allows him to express a lot of what he felt about the world as well as being a clown, is also putting himself out there as the underdog, the everyman, the sort of put upon character from society. the tramp is funny, you can laugh at him, but you can also feel for him. there is something pathetic about the tramp. that tramp figure, which wasn t new, but he brought to it through cinema a chance for the audience to feel like they are all part
you can laugh at him, but you can also feel for him. there is something pathetic about the tramp. that tramp figure, which wasn t new, but he brought to it through cinema a chance for the audience to feel like they are all part of one thing, and escape from their own lives. the character of the tramp was a truly beloved international figure. it helped propel chaplin to being the world s first megastar. the adoration was visible just over 100 years ago when he returned to london for the first time in nine years from america. he was mobbed wherever he went. charlie chaplin almost immediately becomes the biggest international star that the film world had known, and therefore basically anyone had known up to that point, because it was like seeing the real man in front of you, and he had a level of fame and immediacy to his audience that was completely unprecedented. the film industry is becoming global. so he is notjust popular
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