For anyone who doesn't know what's going on, this wasn't planned. When I sat down to film, I never realised the mic wasn't turned on 🤦🏼♀ I'll leave it to you to imagine some of the words that came out my mouth when I imported the footage to begin editing! But I would not be defeated, and embarked upon what would be the most difficult edit I have ever done. So, please sit back and hopefully enjoy my silent reaction!
Very nicely done! Thanks for the pleasant surprise of genuine innovation and creativity on RU-vid. You did a lovely job with it! Though I suspect your sub-conscious was at work having you leave the mic off on the only silent movie you've reacted to. You will be copied soon, but just remember: imitation is the best form of flattery!
What a fabulous presentation! One of the most creative, fitting and entertaining reactions, ever! And a great choice for a silent film reaction! Chaplin always makes a person laugh and cry in his unique style.
Dawn. You really shocked me with this reaction. ------ No one on youtube would even dream of reacting to this film due to its age. ------ Your are one of a kind for sure. Stay amazing.
@@flarrfan That actually is a very good movie, and despite being a silent film it's getting more and more up to date, with todays political climate and AI going on. Great suggestion!
Well,Mia Tiffany,another great reactor,she probably would react it to. Mia has done a few silent movies on her channel. But not many reactors would. Bravo to Dawn and Mia for taking risks.
I'm so delighted by how delighted you get with the sweet silly stuff. And what a fun way to recover a technical hitch! This worked extremely well. Thank you for all the work that went into it!
Whether it was a happy accident or you planned it all along, with the mic not working you went with it and the "silent reaction" turned out brilliantly!!! 'Making lemonade from lemons', you have a natural comedian inside you and I could see you making your own comedy films sometime in the future. (Though we do miss hearing your real laugh!). Looking forward to your next reaction.
It took him so many shots to film some scenes. He wanted it to be perfect. This is his best feature. Loved your contribution to the silence too - great minds, both of you
Just when I thought I couldn't love you more ... your recovery on this with all the captions was simply brilliant! Your sense of humor is a treasure. Thanks for the laughs today ... it really made my day!
You asked how much $22 would be today. $22 in 1931 would be $433 today, and $1000 in 1931 would be $19,682 today. Great reaction! Please do more pre-1986 movies!
If you can get past the technology deficit compared to today, there are some real works of art among the early decades of sound and color, and I wish more reactors were interested in the history of the cinema that we watch today.
You've unwittingly created a video that Chaplin would have been proud of Dawn ... hope you do Chaplins : 'The Kid' , it's considered to be one of the best silent movies of all time ... Chaplin was a comedy genius & perfectionist.
A 92-year old film and it's still so thoroughly engagely and utterly charming. As are you in this reaction! Absolutely inspired to do it as a silent reaction!! Seriously the best reaction I've ever seen. Kudos to you for being open-minded enough to give a silent film a go!
I’m surprised that the mic part wasn’t planned. I thought it was impressive how you’ve done this reaction! And hey, you’re technically the first ever to react a silent movie with a silent reaction! :D
I once started flirting with a deaf girl at my office. Invited her to a silent movie (they have an old theatre with a live organist accompaniment for a series of silents each year). She was so young she didn't know there even were movies without sound in them. (Think the specific film was something with Buster Keaton, not Chaplin.)
Thanks for the great silent reaction. Chaplin is also wonderful in the Gold Rush and The Kid. Buster Keaton has some very memorable silent films as well0 The General and Seven Chances.
I always find it bit sad that so few people seem to come up to Charlie Chaplins films anymore. Such a brilliant combination of humor, sadness and warmth in his films.
This is the best reaction ever made for one of the best movies ever made, that most people have never heard of. Thank you very much for reacting to this and other silent films. I would simply love for you to do a reaction to a Buster Keaton movie. The General would be a great choice. If you want to try a couple short films Sherlock Jr. and Seven Chances are two of his best. Thanks again, I hope everyone will give you a like and a sub for this incredible reaction.
In 1958 there was a Charlie Chaplin revival (in L.A. or nationwide?) and I was five years old and had never been to a movie theater. I don't remember much but the films themselves, including City Lights. Maybe my Grammy Jean took me and my older brother to the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, that's how I remember it. Chaplin on the silver screen (actual silver woven into the screens at that time) was pure magic. My introduction to proper cinematics started quite well and I remember the films, including the one where he eats his shoe. Dawn you are adorable.
Well that was an absolutely beautiful way to watch a silent movie on you tube. Allowed the music to shine. And hilarious subtitles too. More like this please. Bravo! I could still hear you giggling in my head 😂 Would love to see you react to some Laurel and Hardy.
Chaplain was such a perfectionist that the opening sequence took almost 18 months & $2 million to film until he figured out how the blind flower girl would believe the tramp was rich - the original actress was fired in the middle of the shoot and everything had to be redone. It took nearly 3 years to complete the film and silent movies were already becoming a thing of the past. Still, Chaplain delivered a masterpiece.
Congratulations! What a super-creative way to record a film reaction! You say it wasn't planned, which just makes me admire you even more for coming up with such a creative, enjoyable solution to present your reaction to us. It is truly delightful. EVERY other film reactor should watch this and learn something from it! CITY LIGHTS is one of my 5 all-time favorite movies, just about as nearly perfect as a movie can be. The ending never fails to move me to tears. The movie was filmed and released at just about the worst moment of the Great Depression, where $22 (or any amount of money) was just about impossible to come by. (FYI, according to the US Government CPI inflation calculator, $22 was equivalent to roughly $420 these days. But during the Great Depression, it might as well have been 100x more.) If you were to ever do a deep-dive into how this movie was made, you'd be surprised how much of it was improvised and made up as they went along. Yes, there was a general outline to the plot, but for instance, how do you let the audience know that the blind girl thinks Chaplin is a wealthy man? They improvised and tried a number of ideas, and film exists to this day of the various solutions they tried. Finally Chaplin hit upon the idea you see in the final film ad it works perfectly. Back then, Chaplin had the kind of clout that allowed him the freedom to work it out on filming day. FYI, sound movies had been around for a few years by the time CITY LIGHTS came out, but Chaplin wanted to go on making silent movies. Thus, he made a sound movie that pokes fun at sound and sound movies. For instance, the guy at the beginning you thought was speaking a foreign language? That was Chaplin using sound for comic effect, as all politicians at these things all start to sound the same. The whistle caught in the throat and the boxing match were innovative uses of sound as well. Congratulations again. There should be some kind of award for your creativity here!
A memorable reaction vid, well worth the time and effort put into the editing. Nowadays, silent comedy can be an acquired taste due to actors overacting (this itself is simply to convey what's being thought or said in the film), but there's so much silent film out there available to react to. It's a treasure trove to be plundered. Some names for you to maybe consider one day are Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, and W.C.Fields. Also, for your own self, there's a very good biography film on Chaplin which is called.. er.. "Chaplin", and it has Robert Downey Jnr as Charlie himself. It's filled with back story and how the public took to his off-stage personna. Once again, great reaction vid. Can't wait for the next one.
BRILLIANT! Brilliant brilliant brilliant! And if this is all because your microphone wasn't on, then it must be the ghost of Charlie Chaplin himself, playing a little joke on you! This was hilarious and a brilliant way of recovering that footage. I'm blown away. Yet again, you set yourself apart from the pack as one of the most distinctive, creative, entertaining, coolest reactors out there! BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!
You would also love "The Great Dictator." It's a talkie, but Chaplin had A LOT to say in that one. His final speech is one of the more memorable Hollywood moments in the history of film..
I think i saw u swear a couple times naughty girl! God job. Chaplin will forever be an icon of cinema and he started United Artists studio with Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and director D.W. Griffith. Paved the way for independent producers of film.
Very clever reaction. The blind girl was played by Virginia Cherrill, who Chaplin fancied, but she was snatched away by Cary Grant, and became his first wife. Apparently Chaplin resented Grant for stealing his girl, although Grant's marriage to her lasted less than a year.
Hey Dawn, you should check out the Charlie Chaplin documentary (I think showtime network airs it). ----- In that doc they explained how this"City Lights" movie took 18 months to film. ----- And the scene where Chaplin meets the blind girl took a year to film. ------ Chaplin was a perfectionist and filmed 1000 takes of the scene to make sure he could convey the anguish and humor of the moment perfectly without use of dialogue. ---- Chaplin was truly brilliant.
@@Bwhaahhhb Thank you both! I watched this documentary on PBS in the late 1980s (I think) when it was presented as part of their "American Masters" series. I have been looking for it ever since! I referred to it in my own comment above (or below?) and have been wanting to watch it again.
@@RDRussell2 for sure. It's truly impressive what Chapin innovated. Techniques we take for granted today he literally pioneered them. -------- What a Giant among giants.
This is very cool and a great recovery from your tech cock-up, I'm really glad you found a way to make it work because it looks like a really cute film and I enjoyed your reactions a lot 🥳
While I missed your voice, since I've watched so many of your videos, I was able to hear your voice in my head as I read the captions, which made it all the better! Excellent work!
Great reaction ❤I love this interpretation. I cry at the end for whatever reason it strikes me that she will leave him instead of it being a happy ending but the ambiguity is what makes it great
Wow...THIS IS AMAZING!! Thanks for this reaction to a Charlie Chaplin silent movie!! Btw, I see that this movie is from the pre-code Hollywood era of 1931, but the Silent Movie era ended in 1928. Movies with sound actually became mainstream from 1928 (or 1929) with the movie "The Jazz Singer". So, actually, when this 1931 movie was made as a silent movie, it wasn't the norm at that time since Hollywood had already long moved into the sound era years prior. Also, just in case you were unaware, it is worth noting that prior to 1934 there was almost no censorship in movies --- that no-censorship era of 1934 and prior is called the 'Pre-Code' era (as in Pre Hays Code era). So, movies in that pre-code era were typically risque, with lots of sexual innuendos (and even nudity etc), rape, realistic violence, language, and so much more. In a nutshell, the industry self-censorship began as a result of some influential politicians and religious groups pressuring the government to step-in, so the motion picture industry began a system of self-censorship from 1934 to 1968 that made it harder for films to be widely distributed if they didn't follow the censorship guidelines (basically similar to the ratings system that we have today). Filmmakers did not have to follow those guidelines, but they would have an uphill battle to distribute their films, so they were incentivized to 'fall in line' with the guidelines. Anyway, this 1931 movie is from that pre-code era, although it's not a typical pre-code film.
Great choice and save! I saw this first in the 50s and this is still one of the funniest films ever made and the face he makes after she throws water on him is one of the funniest moments in film.
Lovely reaction - this is the first time I've seen a reaction to a silent movie, let alone a silent reaction! lol - if you liked Chaplin, you might like Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd - take a look at The General, Sherlock Jr, and Safety Last - for that sweet 1800s sentimentalism, try Griffith w Intolerance, Way Down East, Broken Blossoms - also see Murnau's amazing Sunrise -
This is special. Anybody got the "Chaplin"(1992) playlist? It would be cool to react to all of them (silent)(one talkie) and then react to the backstory (talkie.) Startin' to feel "Singing in the Rain" coming on...
This is my absolute favorite silent film and my very favorite Charlie Chaplin movie. The way you presented it was pure brilliance! Some times the accidents we make in life turn out to be our best work!
This is just awesome. It couldn't have turned out any better if you had the sound! Honestly it's so creative and funny. "This is how I swim". Well Dawn you really should do Another silent reaction again someday.
There's a movie theatre in my town that occasionally shows classic silent movies. I've been able to see this movie in a movie theatre thanks to that. I had seen it several times on TV as a kid and adult though.
Very well done. Turning a mistake into a feature... and resulting in an outcome that is fitting like a glove, like a hommage to the topic and looks nicely crafted. Really cool. Kudos to your editing skills and your creativity.
I choose to believe that the lack of audio was not an accident but an incredibly clever approach to a silent movie. It was great, except for not getting to hear your lovely voice. Looking forward to the next one. Thank you, Dawn.
you know there is a biopic of Charlie Chaplin where Robert Downy Jr. takes the lead role as Chaplin, and RDJ does an epic job of the role....goes through his whole life (mind you in a Hollywood movie sort of way).....but Highly Highly recommend anyone who is a fan of charlies movies to watch it..its brilliant
It's not Chaplin's feet that are so big, it's just his shoes. When he was developing his "Little Tramp" character he made specific decisions about his costuming. From wardrobe he got an old pair of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's trousers, so his pants would be baggy. He wore a suit coat that was a couple of sizes too small, to contrast with the oversized trousers. And he got shoes that were several sizes too big, which he wore on the opposite feet to accentuate a turned out stance. All this made an appearance of someone who had to wear whatever he was able to scrounge, and also was funny as soon as he came on screen. "Fatty" Arbuckle, was a big star of silent comedies in the 1910s. Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, both were supporting actors for Arbuckle when they were starting out in Hollywood. $22 in 1931 is about $435 in 2023.
Charlie wanted to be a contradiction with his large shoes, baggy pants, small coat and hat. Charlie actually wore a size 5 shoe, but the boots he wore were a size 14, so in order to get his large shoes to fit, he wore them on opposite feet. BTW Charlie's smile isn't creepy. Lol! Look him up without his costume or make up on..... 😉 You're welcome ❤
Brilliant! It turned out great. Really entertaining, as per your usual. Now we expect all the silents reacted to in this manner. 👏 - Maninthewilderness
THIS! AWESOME! What a great way to salvage a first reaction when you lost your audio. I applaud you. What is awesome is that you did the silent reaction to a silent movie. This would not have worked for something like Lord of the Rings. It was meant to be! I loved it!
There were a lot of GREAT shorts by Chaplin, just a few features. Others are “The Kid”, “The Gold Rush”, “The Circus”, “Modern Times” (when that meant the Great Depression), and “The Great Dictator”, his first full talkie and a skewering of Hitler. Later on, “Limelight” featured him as a washed-up comedian who used to be huge. Much later, Robert Downey Jr played the title role in “Chaplin” (1992).
I'd love to see your reaction to Young Romance (1915). In a New York department store, Nellie of notions and Tom of hardware don’t know one another, but they have similar desires to see what it would be like to be a person of wealth and status. So, both travel to the same upscale beach resort, and the fun begins.
Hi Dawn, I`m glad you enjoyed the film, those old silent comics all worked hard to make you smile. Ingenious use of an unexpected turn of events to enhance the viewing pleasure. I do hope to see you react to the 1923 film Safety Last, starring Harold Lloyd in the future. :)
You did it! (You learned to lip-read?) You did a brilliant job of it. You’re a good editor and tons of fun! Congratulations on on the 30,000+. Those “that’s what she said” jokes never fail to take me by surprise.
Starting when I was about Five years old, my grandmother used to walk me to the local cinemas in Montreal, whenever there was a revival of Charlie Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy movies. This was the early 1970s, and Grandma was born in 1912, so these movies were not only brand new stories when she was a child, they were new technology! She relived her own youth, watching and hearing me react to her beloved Golden Oldies.
For whatever the reason, this was the most clever reaction to a movie, a silent movie, by the greatest, Charlie Chaplin, that amyone has vere come up with. Even Chaplin would have tipped his hat and bowed to you.
Dawn Marie, you should check out the 1976 Mel Brooks film "Silent Movie". Hew made a REAL silent movie, which the studios really didn't want him to do. But Brooks in all absurdity made a truly hysterical film. There is one segment in the film, I won't spoil it though, that is the height of absurdity in true Mel Brooks fashion, something only that madman would think of doing! PLEASE watch Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie", if not for a review, then for your own entertainment!
