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Film and American Culture

Chaplin provides the film with its emotional center through the character of the lone prospector. The lone prospector sets out to make a fortune in the halcyon days of the Alaskan gold rush. When the lone prospector is lost amidst the vast snowy Alaskan wastes the viewer is relieved when he literally stumbles onto an isolated cabin. Little does he know that the cabin belongs to the dastardly desperado Black Larsen. The movie is filled with these shifts in moods of happiness and despair, and later with the introduction of the dancer (Georgia) the movie again has a change in atmosphere from survival to romance. In essence the movie is a journey of the lone prospectors quest for gold, and brush with love. In both instances he is a failure but in the end he emerges as a winner getting both the girl and the gold. This is the most important aspect of the movie; despite all of the odds the character faces the last scene is showing him rich and with the love of his life. .
             The gold rush was a craze that took over America in the later part of the 19th century. Thousands of people flocked towards the Klondike in Alaska and California in hopes of becoming rich overnight. It was an obsession that appealed to the seemingly trapped industrialized urbanites in search of opportunity and the adventure of the frontier, however it left thousands of hopeful people dead, disappointed and heartbroken. Of the 100,000 people who set out for the Klondike, only 15,000 to 20,000 prospected and possibly 4,000 found gold www.pbs.org. It is also an event that inspired Chaplin to write and base his black and white silent film about it. The first scene of The Gold Rush actually depicts a long line of prospectors climbing the steep Chilkoot Pass of Alaska in search of gold. www.filmsite.org The character of lone prospector is a representation of these hopeful journeymen who struggled to find gold. Unlike the majority that failed the character in Chaplin's movie does not.


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