I found this interesting, it's from David Robinson's book Chaplin : His Life and Art. It's notes Chaplin took regarding the characters of The Tramp and The Gamin from Modern Times :
The only two live spirits in a world of automatons. They really live. Both have an eternal spirit of youth and are absolutely unmoral.
Alive because we are children with no sense of responsibility, whereas the rest of humanity is weighted down with duty.
We are spiritually free.
There is no romance in the relationship, really two playmates - partners in crime, comrades, babes in the woods.
We beg, borrow or steal for a living. Two joyous spirits living by their wits.
I find this interesting as I feel this is probably how a lot of the homeless feel... that they're free and we're the ones weighted down.
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The only two live spirits in a world of automatons. They really live. Both have an eternal spirit of youth and are absolutely unmoral.
Alive because we are children with no sense of responsibility, whereas the rest of humanity is weighted down with duty.
We are spiritually free.
There is no romance in the relationship, really two playmates - partners in crime, comrades, babes in the woods.
We beg, borrow or steal for a living. Two joyous spirits living by their wits.
I find this interesting as I feel this is probably how a lot of the homeless feel... that they're free and we're the ones weighted down.
Read more: http://goldensilents.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=13902#ixzz1UZbaPHNO
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