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Silver Screen #ServantLeaders / Ode to Charlie #thisAmericanQuilt #art #cinema

Charlie Chaplin, filming the 1925 classic, 'The Gold Rush' From the beginning, it was meant to be a form of ā€˜releaseā€™ for the people. Charlie Chaplinā€™s 1925 film, ā€˜The Gold Rush,ā€™ became a timeless film etching itself into the American conscious as it weaved a well-known story of an impoverished ā€˜underdogā€™ who is without guile, yet valiant and clever. Chaplinā€™s Little Tramp goes out to seek gold in the time of the Alaskan gold rush and finds himself in a far-flung cabin between a gold prospector and a fugitive from the law. Throughout the story in the silent film Chaplinā€™s character faces starvation as he deals, evades and one-ups the prospector and fugitive with their own agendas who will stop at nothing, even if it means possibly eating Chaplinā€™s character. In the end, Chaplinā€™s Little Tramp wins through default almost without trying, and as usual, without losing his composure. The film delivers a classic storyline that puts forth the championing of the ā€˜un...