Am a big fan of Charlie Chaplin, have been for over a decade now. Many films and shorts of his are very good to masterpiece, and like many others consider him a comedy genius and one of film's most important and influential directors.
He did do better than 'Tillie's Punctured Romance', historically interesting for the first feature length comedy and Chaplin moving on from short films. Can understand why the Keystone period suffered from not being as best remembered or highly remembered than his later efforts, but they are mainly decent and important in their own right. 'Tillie's Punctured Romance' has a lot of nice things about it and is to me one of the best efforts in the 1914 Keystone batch.
'Tillie's Punctured Romance' is one of his funniest and most charming from this period. Sure the production values are still not as audacious. Appreciated the busier story than most from some other 1914 efforts of his, though occasionally it was a bit hard to follow and still a bit flimsy and perhaps better suited to a short film. 'Tillie's Punctured Romance' is pretty good and it showed that Chaplin was starting to settle. There is a good deal of charm and the chemistry between the characters is fun.
While not audacious, the film hardly looks ugly, is more than competently directed and is appealingly played. Chaplin looks comfortable, with more shades than before of his distinctive style here, and shows his stage expertise while opening it up that it doesn't become stagy or repetitive shtick. There is more sympathy and emotion than most of his efforts from this period. Mabel Normand and Marie Dressler are good support.
Although the humour, charm and emotion was done even better and became more refined later, 'Tillie's Punctured Romance' is still very funny, cute and hard to dislike. It moves quickly and you don't feel the length.
Overall, pretty good. 7/10 Bethany Cox
He did do better than 'Tillie's Punctured Romance', historically interesting for the first feature length comedy and Chaplin moving on from short films. Can understand why the Keystone period suffered from not being as best remembered or highly remembered than his later efforts, but they are mainly decent and important in their own right. 'Tillie's Punctured Romance' has a lot of nice things about it and is to me one of the best efforts in the 1914 Keystone batch.
'Tillie's Punctured Romance' is one of his funniest and most charming from this period. Sure the production values are still not as audacious. Appreciated the busier story than most from some other 1914 efforts of his, though occasionally it was a bit hard to follow and still a bit flimsy and perhaps better suited to a short film. 'Tillie's Punctured Romance' is pretty good and it showed that Chaplin was starting to settle. There is a good deal of charm and the chemistry between the characters is fun.
While not audacious, the film hardly looks ugly, is more than competently directed and is appealingly played. Chaplin looks comfortable, with more shades than before of his distinctive style here, and shows his stage expertise while opening it up that it doesn't become stagy or repetitive shtick. There is more sympathy and emotion than most of his efforts from this period. Mabel Normand and Marie Dressler are good support.
Although the humour, charm and emotion was done even better and became more refined later, 'Tillie's Punctured Romance' is still very funny, cute and hard to dislike. It moves quickly and you don't feel the length.
Overall, pretty good. 7/10 Bethany Cox