This article is about the great actor Charlie Chaplin. He was not only one of the greatest actors of american movies, he was one of the best actors in all of the world. The article is talking about how in Switzerland Michael Chaplin is trying to use his fathers house that he was exiled to when he left America during the Mccarthy era in the United States. He lived the last 25 years of his life there.
The Swiss people loved him just as much as Americans did and the rest of the world. His house is pretty much the same way as he left it 25 years ago this year when he passed away early christmas day. there has been different arguements as to where this museum should be, with France and Hollywood as being the other two places that have been in consideration. His son would prefer that it was the one in Switzerland. i was surprised in the fact that he was as popular, if not more than he was here in America in the sense that there is even a consideration. It is strange to see also that they are so into movies in the same way that we are.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/specials/extraordinary_exiles/Charlie_Chaplins_star_on_rise_again.html?cid=12814
I never knew that Chaplin was exiled, seems strange that it could happen to someone so famous. His fame was international, so maybe it's more fitting for the museum to be situated in a neutral nation like Switzerland.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea anyone was exiled during the cold war let alone Charlie Chaplin. I thought that being exiled was from hundreds if not millenia ago. As far as the location of the museum it should be in the U.S., in hollywood seeing as his career started here and he is such an iconic figure of film in this country. It would seem most fitting for it to be in Hollywood, that is the movie capital of the country; the present and future generations can learn about a bygone era of film when it was first being used for entertainment and you could not even here words.
ReplyDeleteI also didn't realize that Chaplin was exiled. I assume this exile was partly his choice, since McCarthy and his buddies made "black lists," which included names of people they suspects of engaging in unamerican activities. So if he wanted to work, he probably had to move. Or maybe he left the US to avoid the harassment and public embarassment associated with being identified as "red."
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