Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin
The comic archetype of the Little Man--a "nobody" who stands up to unfairness--is central to the films of Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin. Portraying the alienation of life in an indifferent world with a mix of pathos, irony and slapstick, both adopted absurdist personas--Chaplin''s bumbling yet clever Tramp with his shabby clothes, and Allen''s fool with his metaphysical witticisms and proclivi...
The comic archetype of the Little Man--a "nobody" who stands up to unfairness--is central to the films of Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin. Portraying the alienation of life in an indifferent world with a mix of pathos, irony and slapstick, both adopted absurdist personas--Chaplin''s bumbling yet clever Tramp with his shabby clothes, and Allen''s fool with his metaphysical witticisms and proclivi...
