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Charlie Chaplin's 'City Lights'
Mark Turrin
Steven Neaderhiser
College Writing I
17 November 2009 Charlie Chaplin’s movie City Lights was a very interesting movie that I enjoyed even though it was made so many years ago. It obviously was not as exciting as some movies today but it was still able to keep my attention. A lot of things he did in the movie were pretty funny. When he got his pants stuck on the cities new statue, when he was boxing and hid behind the referee, and when the blind girl threw water on him were all scenes that made me laugh. They made me laugh because of the sound effects and repetition. The movie used sounds and repetition to help make it funny. When someone would fall or something would happen you would have a high whistle or something
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