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City Lights

227 statements
43 feature instances
21 referencing feature instances

City Lights	type	TVTItem
City Lights	label	City Lights
City Lights	page	CityLights
City Lights	comment	City Lights is a 1931 American silent romantic comedy film starring, written by and directed by Charlie Chaplin. It also stars Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Despite the fact that the production of silent films had dwindled with the rise of "talking" pictures, City Lights was immediately popular and is today remembered as one of the highest accomplishments of Chaplin's prolific career. Although classified as a comedy, City Lights has an ending widely regarded as one of the finest and most moving in cinema history.The plot involves Chaplin, as the Tramp, falling in love with a blind flower girl (Cherrill) he meets on the street. Later he convinces a drunken millionaire (Myers) not to commit suicide, and the Millionaire proclaims the Tramp his friend for life. This lasts for as long as the Millionaire is drunk, of course. Oddly enough the Millionaire forgets who Chaplin is while sober, but remembers him again when drunk. Chaplin uses this new temporary millionaire status to woo the flower girl by buying all her flowers and driving her home in the Millionaire's car, and later by trying to pay for her rent and for an operation which will help her see again, using the Millionaire's money. This, of course, does not go over too well once the Millionaire sobers up.
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City Lights	isPartOf	DBTropes
City Lights / int_1c5cfd7a	type	The Tramp
City Lights / int_1c5cfd7a	comment	The Tramp: But of course. By the end of the film he's even more ragged than ever, having given up everything he had to help the flower girl.
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City Lights / int_237a1777	type	Exploding Calendar
City Lights / int_237a1777	comment	Exploding Calendar
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City Lights / int_27ba9b64	type	What Did I Do Last Night?
City Lights / int_27ba9b64	comment	What Did I Do Last Night?: The Millionaire, after he sobers up, does not even remember who Chaplin is or that they'd spent an entire night and day hanging out and partying. After he gets drunk again, though, the Millionaire remembers him. Hilariously, they even wake up in bed together at one point without the Millionaire recognizing Chaplin. A completely heterosexual play on the trope of course.
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City Lights / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
City Lights / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: The Millionaire to the Tramp.
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City Lights / int_3754b680	type	Temporary Blindness
City Lights / int_3754b680	comment	Temporary Blindness: The blind flower girl. She gets an operation to restore her sight thanks to the Tramp.
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City Lights / int_39f27cae	type	Bedmate Reveal
City Lights / int_39f27cae	comment	Bedmate Reveal: The Millionaire and the Tramp waking up in the same bed.
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City Lights / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
City Lights / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending / No Ending: Don't you want to know what will happen next?
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City Lights / int_43a831db	type	Epic Tracking Shot
City Lights / int_43a831db	comment	Epic Tracking Shot / The Oner: The Tramp is peeking in the blind girl's window. The camera moves from the window across the living room to show the blind girl, sick in bed. An Epic Tracking Shot for Chaplin, who generally stuck to his old-fashioned silent movie directing style where the camera hardly ever moved.
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City Lights / int_51beab21	type	Good Old Fisticuffs
City Lights / int_51beab21	comment	Good Old Fisticuffs: Perhaps the funniest boxing match ever filmed.
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City Lights / int_54bbe8ae	type	Blind Mistake
City Lights / int_54bbe8ae	comment	Blind Mistake: Happens several times with the blind girl. At one point the Tramp is helping her ball up some yarn, and she accidentally grabs a stray thread from his clothes instead. He's too shy to correct her, and ends up helping unravel all his underwear.
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City Lights / int_54d5074	type	Speaking Simlish
City Lights / int_54d5074	comment	Speaking Simlish: Though it's a silent film, the speech given at the beginning to dedicate a statue is performed over a kazoo, while the serenade at the Millionaire's party is performed by a trumpet with wa-wa mute. Knowing Chaplin, this is likely a Take That! against the pressure for the Tramp to get with the times and make a 'talking' picture, as well as the often poor sound quality of the early talkies.
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City Lights / int_56725578	type	Driving a Desk
City Lights / int_56725578	comment	Driving a Desk: A shot of Charlie and the millionaire in a car, arguing over who should be actually driving it, while street scenery swiftly passes in the background
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City Lights / int_5ceb9939	type	Alcohol Hic
City Lights / int_5ceb9939	comment	Alcohol Hic: The Tramp, while drunk at one point, accidentally swallows a whistle, causing him to hiccup, and setting the whistle off. During the process, he disrupts the Millionaire's party, inadvertently flags down several taxis, and calls a pack of dogs.
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City Lights / int_5f173ee4	type	I Kiss Your Hand
City Lights / int_5f173ee4	comment	I Kiss Your Hand: Several times: Chaplin to the blind girl, the blind girl to Chaplin, Chaplin to a random guy thinking he's the blind girl...
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City Lights / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
City Lights / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: Two newsboys repeatedly harass the Tramp simply because he's homeless.
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City Lights / int_6339e2bd	type	Disabled Love Interest
City Lights / int_6339e2bd	comment	Disabled Love Interest: The film revolves around the Tramp falling in love with a blind flower seller.
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City Lights / int_67237c56	type	Weighted Gloves
City Lights / int_67237c56	comment	Weighted Gloves: Subverted during the boxing scene. In the locker room Charlie finds a horseshoe which he fiddles with but eventually dismisses and goes to fight without.
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City Lights / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
City Lights / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The Tramp prevents a millionaire from killing himself by talking him out of it. The Millionaire tends to get suicidal whenever he's drunk. Specifically, he's suicidal because his wife left him.
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City Lights / int_7a54c458	type	Mock Millionaire
City Lights / int_7a54c458	comment	Mock Millionaire: Charlie.
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City Lights / int_7de6cd26	type	Rescue Reversal
City Lights / int_7de6cd26	comment	Rescue Reversal: The drunk and depressed eccentric millionaire is clumsily attempting to take his own life at the harbor. He has tied one end of a rope to a large stone and put the noose around his neck. The Tramp comes down the steps and valiantly intervenes to prevent the man's determined suicide, but the loop in the rope falls around his neck and pulls him into the river instead. The Tramp almost drowns and he is the one who must be saved.
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City Lights / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
City Lights / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: The Millionaire
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City Lights / int_81a1960f	type	Silence Is Golden
City Lights / int_81a1960f	comment	Silence Is Golden: The entire movie. Notable since it was released two years after the rest of Hollywood had abandoned silent films for talkies.
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City Lights / int_87572663	type	Wrong Side of the Tracks
City Lights / int_87572663	comment	Wrong Side of the Tracks
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City Lights / int_8862b001	type	Cross Counter
City Lights / int_8862b001	comment	Cross Counter: Part of the boxing match. Both men go down, then take turns getting up and going down again.
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City Lights / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
City Lights / int_8c41d6e9	comment	Nameless Narrative: No one in the film has an actual name.
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City Lights / int_92d2fe52	type	Tearful Smile
City Lights / int_92d2fe52	comment	Tearful Smile: The Tramp at the end.
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City Lights / int_96d2ce42	type	In Vino Veritas
City Lights / int_96d2ce42	comment	In Vino Veritas: The Millionaire is all chummy with Chaplin while drunk, but once he sobers up...
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City Lights / int_9a6fbae7	type	Hurt Foot Hop
City Lights / int_9a6fbae7	comment	Hurt Foot Hop: When the Millionaire drops a rock on the Tramp's foot, the latter hops around in pain. The Millionaire had tied the rock to his neck in order to drown himself. Also, when the Butler slams the door on the Tramp's foot.
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City Lights / int_b3acb52a	type	Innocent Flower Girl
City Lights / int_b3acb52a	comment	Innocent Flower Girl: Poor and blind.
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City Lights / int_ba112560	type	Throwing the Fight
City Lights / int_ba112560	comment	Throwing the Fight: In order to raise money for the blind girl, Chaplin enters a boxing match. His first opponent arranged for them to throw the match and split the prize money, but he had to leave, and Chaplin's new opponent wants all the prize money for himself. And he knocks people out in a single punch.
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City Lights / int_bae7be59	type	Wire Fu
City Lights / int_bae7be59	comment	Wire Fu: Wires are actually visible in the boxing scene.
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City Lights / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
City Lights / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: The Millionaire is about to tie a millstone around his neck and throw himself in the river when Charlie stops him.
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City Lights / int_c59c953e	type	You Just Ruined the Shot
City Lights / int_c59c953e	comment	You Just Ruined the Shot: Two dancers in the nightclub are doing the "Apache dance", a then-popular dance routine in which a pimp character is abusing his prostitute. A drunk Charlie, thinking it's real, tries to intervene, and ruins the dance. This is easily lost on modern audiences, since without knowing about the dance, it's just a confusing scene where everyone seemingly stops the Tramp from protecting a woman.
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City Lights / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
City Lights / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: The final scene, when the flower girl realizes what the audience knew all along.
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City Lights / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
City Lights / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: By a lucky association with the Millionaire, Chaplin accomplishes this.
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City Lights / int_cb123fdc	type	iSophagus
City Lights / int_cb123fdc	comment	iSophagus: Chaplin swallows a whistle at one point, and whistles whenever he hiccups, attracting a taxicab and several dogs.
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City Lights / int_cd3e8a81	type	Dramatic Curtain Toss
City Lights / int_cd3e8a81	comment	Dramatic Curtain Toss: The film opens with the unveiling of a large statue. When the cover is removed, the Little Tramp is sleeping on it.
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City Lights / int_de66421f	type	Congruent Memory
City Lights / int_de66421f	comment	Congruent Memory: The millionaire regards Charlie as his best buddy when drunk, but as a vagrant stranger when sober.
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City Lights / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
City Lights / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: The Tramp sure spends a lot of time looking at that nude female statue...
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City Lights / int_e040c8f	type	Romantic Comedy
City Lights / int_e040c8f	comment	Romantic Comedy: In pantomime!
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City Lights / int_e0ded88f	type	Sentimental Drunk
City Lights / int_e0ded88f	comment	Sentimental Drunk: The Millionaire is exceedingly friendly and generous when drunk, but tight fisted and mean when sober. The fact that he also tended to black out and not remember what had happened when he was drunk adds to the confusion.
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City Lights / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
City Lights / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: The Tramp is usually a laid back guy, and one of the most generous citizens you could ever hope to meet, but when a pair of newspaper boys taunt him, take his cane and make fun of his tattered, shabby clothes, he takes his gloves off and arrogantly snaps his fingers right in their faces.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

ExitSmiling	seeAlso	City Lights
City Lights	hasFeature	AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	hasFeature	Blind Mistake / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	hasFeature	Congruent Memory / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	hasFeature	Dramatic Curtain Toss / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	hasFeature	Ends with a Smile / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	hasFeature	I Kiss Your Hand / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	hasFeature	Innocent Flower Girl / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	hasFeature	Interrupted Suicide / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	hasFeature	It's Not Porn, It's Art / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	hasFeature	Life-Saving Encouragement / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	hasFeature	Mock Millionaire / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	hasFeature	Rescue Reversal / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	hasFeature	Sentimental Drunk / int_ad4b4262
Sliding Scale of Film Obscurity	seeAlso	City Lights
City Lights	hasFeature	Throwing the Fight / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	hasFeature	TIME — All-Time 100 Movies / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	hasFeature	Weighted Gloves / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	hasFeature	What Did I Do Last Night? / int_ad4b4262
City Lights	seeAlso	City Lights
City Lights	hasFeature	AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies / int_ad4b4262

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