移民 (1917)
The Immigrant
流浪汉抵达纽约。
卓别林为Mutual公司拍的第11部影片，讲述移民到新大陆的故事。在短短20分钟之内，影片分成两部分，前者是满怀梦想的通向新大陆的旅程，后一部分则是通过一个用餐的场景来表现新大陆之梦的艰辛以及最终柳暗花明的喜剧结局。
演员阵容
- 查理·卓别林 — Immigrant
- 埃德娜·普维恩斯 — Immigrant
- 埃里克·坎贝尔 — The Head Waiter
- 阿尔伯特·奥斯汀 — A Diner / Immigrant
- 亨利·伯格曼 — The Artist
- Tom Wilson — Gambler (uncredited)
- Tom Harrington — Marriage Registrar (uncredited)
- 约翰·兰德 — Tipsy diner
- Kitty Bradbury — Mother (uncredited)
- Janet Sully — Passenger (uncredited)
- Loyal Underwood — Passenger (uncredited)
- 詹姆斯·T·凯利 — Shabby Diner (uncredited)
趣闻
The Immigrant is a 1917 American silent romantic comedy short written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film stars Chaplin's Tramp character as an immigrant coming to the United States who is accused of theft on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and falls in love with a beautiful young woman along the way. It also stars Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell.
Production
Chaplin developed the storyline for The Immigrant as filming progressed. Initially, the movie began as a comedy set in an artists' cafe, with Purviance as a brightly dressed patron.
This plot was abandoned almost immediately, before Chaplin's character was introduced, according to the documentary Unknown Chaplin, and Chaplin began again, with a story, still set in a cafe, about a man who has never been in a restaurant before displaying terrible table manners before meeting a lovely girl (Purviance) and shaping up.
According to Unknown Chaplin, Chaplin developed the idea of the tramp and Purviance's character being immigrants when he realized he needed more plot to justify the restaurant scenes. After filming the film's opening sequences of the arrival in America, he reshot parts of the restaurant scene to be consistent with the new plot (bringing Bergman back in a new role as an artist who resolves the subplot of Charlie being unable to pay for dinner), an…
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