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The problem...

posted 17 years ago by LilDevotchka6271
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I enojyed this movie, the wardrobe, the acting... BUT as a Charlie Chaplin AND Eddie Izzard fan I must say Mr. Chaplin was represented HORRIBLY!!!

Yes, Chaplin liked to have some fun with girls, and he and Marion did have an affair, but from all the reseach I've done on him I do not think he was at all the way he was portrayed in that movie. They made him out to be some kind of sexual preditor! And Davies like a saint!!!! WRONG! Neither of them were as the film made them out to be, the writer was so biased it sickens me.

Chaplin may have liked younger girls-- he had his reasons that I wont go into right now, but Marion Davies was sure as *beep* not an angel, she spent YEARS-- DECADES with an already married man!!
This movie was clearly made by someone who strongly disliked Chaplin.

But what really upsets me is that it's Eddie Izzard. Someone I really admire! Also he was not right for the part physically, Eddie has a little meat on him and Chaplin was a VERY thin man.

Bottom line it didn't do Charlie the justice he deserves.
What do you guys think?

[–] chelle523 17 years ago

It's a bit hard to make a case for the movie's portrayal of him or yours, since neither can be proven at this point. If Chaplin were alive now, he'd most likely be in prison, unless he had R. Kelly's lawyers. It's hard to say whether Chaplin was represented truthfully or not 80 years after the fact. There's plenty of writing that shows him to be a pervert, and plenty that doesn't.
And I definitely don't think this movie portrays Marion Davies as a saint. She's having an affair with one married man, and cheating on him with another. Not the actions of a saint!
I'm curious - what "reasons" could a grown man having for being attracted to a 16-year old girl?