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Tramp
- The Life of Charlie Chaplin
- Narrateur(s): Clinton Wade
- Durée: 19 h et 36 min
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Description
Charlie Chaplin made an amazing 71 films by the time he was only 33 years old. He was not only known as the world’s first international movie star, but as a comedian, film director, and a man ripe with scandal, accused of plagiarism, communism, pacifism, liberalism, and anti-Americanism. He seduced young women, marrying four different times, each time to a woman younger than the next.
In this animated biography of Chaplin, Joyce Milton reveals to us a life riddled with gossip and a struggle to rise from an impoverished London childhood to the life of a successful American film star. Milton shows us how the creation of his famous character - The Tramp, the Little Fellow - was both rewarding and then devastating as he became obsolete with the changes of time.
Tramp is a perceptive, clever, and captivating biography of a talented and complicated man whose life was filled with scandal, politics, and art.
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Au global2 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Histoire3 out of 5 stars
- Langer MD
- 2024-01-05
Essentially An Exhaustive Work Resumé
Charlie Chaplin made 81 films in his impressive career - and Joyce Wilson makes sure that she discusses the conception, plot, and filming of each and every one of them. She follows a strict linear chronological storytelling structure - from impoverished beginnings on the British Vaudeville circuit to incredible power wielded as a Hollywood icon - while also reporting what was publicly known to be occurring in the actor's personal life (love affairs, divorces, lawsuits, etc.).
The result is a punctiliously accurate biography that is inadvertantly quite superficial - notwithstanding discussons of controversial elements of his life like his Harvey Weinstein-like sex acts, psychiatric struggles, and communist politics. There is plenty of background for forming an opinion.. but I was never able to get a grasp on who the *man* was (Wilson offers voluminous detail and precious little insight).
Unfortunately, the book is also made a more difficult read with a strikingly poor narration. Reader Clinton Wade displays an emotionless tone and reads with an irritating staccato Iambic cadence (every second syllable emphasized). Reviewers comparing Wade to a "text-to-speech" app are sadly accurate (setting playback speed at 1.25X helped somewhat.. but this performance is straight-up awful).
Altogether, I rate 'Tramp' a disappointing 4 stars out of 10. As a 'Plus' selection (included with my subscription), it was an information-packed biography that was a serviceable distraction for a couple of quiet afternoons.. but paying a Credit for this audiobook would be a head-shaker.
ATTN PRODUCERS: An appended PDF with photographs would improve this product markedly
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