The Circus Final Scene

[alexoldmovies27]

the famous charlie chaplin finally!! classic!!!

[Jens85U]

While I love this movie(and this ending) I can't help but notice that this feature is some kind of limbo for Chaplin. It doesn't seems to have a theme like the rest of his long films(The childcare-system in "The Kid", Society in general in "Modern Times", facism in "The Great Dictator") Of course it has the love theme like "City Lights" and "Goldrush" but still, not as much.

This feature seems to me like a tribute to all the short films he made in his early days, yet it is a great movie

[KLSCommunity]

CHARLI CHAPLIN YOU COOL



[Deppaddicted]

Charlie and his ever envied optimism. <3

[boulein]

has he thrown communism away? i don't get it...

[Deppaddicted]

@boulein What?

[patodulcineamag]

But in the movie HE decided stay alone. He decided that.

[BirdOfParadise777]

@HoneyMurray95 I never heard about all of that! Thank you for the information:)

BOP

[pellochicago]

charles chaplin un genio del cine mudo.

[MissDeeCole]

Can anyone tell me what movie the scene where charlie has lunch with a women who is interested in another man? it has the lines "the romance now fading" and "goodby little girl". he hugs her goodbye and he shakes the mans hand, and they both get into a car and drive off while charlie kind of paces around. can anyone tell me what movie that scene is from?

[gadzooks004]

Brilliant ending to one of the most brilliant films ever made. Ingenious artist. Unsurpassed by no one.

[83pgm]

@gadzooks004 I think you mean SURPASSED by no one. Saying UNsurpassed by no one is saying everyone was better than him. Sorry for going grammer nazi on you. The error was kind of funny though.

[BirdOfParadise777]

@83pgm "grammer nazi" LOL! Thanks for the laugh:)

BOP

[zdytnt]

Ingenious Chaplin! Very dramatic final. Greates final. This one of my liked films of Chaplin.

[lostv7]

what do you mean?

[Ashiman12]

@lostv7 It was around the time he made this film that his marriage to Lita Grey - his second wife - was disintigrating. Very messy divorce. She basically went out of her way to try and ruin his reputation, and even tried to win rights to this movie. He eventually had a nervous breakdown as a result. It was such a tumultous time that he doesn't even mention this movie in his autobiography.

[elgoscoix]

@lostv7 Charlie was divorced from Lita Grey while he was filming "The Circus", and it wasn't amicably settled, to say the least. Besides, the set was destroyed by fire, so putting it all together, it mustn't have been a very happy film for Chaplin.

[clarkvanbur]

Will never be duplicated.

[kostgian]

his bitterness to all...

[donnafran]

...timeless...

[foxpawz]

still my all time favorite movie scene. no words...yet...so powerful with meaning.

Chaplin remains in my book, beyond just a movie star, he is inspiration.

[brassagecinema]

Le cirque de Chaplin en ciné-concert - 21 et 22 mars 2009 - Paris par Brassage Cinema.

[doobydot]

Circus, in my opinion, is the best of all of Cahrlie's films. This ending is definately one of the reasons. So powerful.

[tikiux5]

yeah its hard to find the tramp with a happy ending like in the end of Modern times but charlie knew that life wasent alwase happy at the end some times but it was about the fun of geting there

[CaptMARNEY]

What a walk. He's a classic.

[eleventhdr]

Yeah i feel and know just how Charlie felt because i often feel just that very same way about stuff that simple is no longer there at all excaep in some other time and place where you can no longer see it with your eye's but it si still there for those who can sense it which i truly can so i sit and wonder how to bring it back for real!

Ah well!

[PhillipCreeper]

I agree orbison. The movie ended after Charlie leaves but I wonder how the circus did without him. They were doing bad until he joined them. It would have been poetic justice if it had flopped but then we wouldn't have seen this great ending.

[orbison]

Chaplin finished work on The Circus three days after the world premiere of The Jazz Singer

[jonasjar]

sublime!

[BassGirl09]

how can 43 seconds be so powerful? chaplin, what brilliance!

[Hollywood1914]

and life continue...

genius...

[RikaGlory13]

he is hilarious! my hero!

[mbison83]

heil chaplin!

[NHPollon]

so sad...

[Nordenwald]

Doesn't get much more cinematic than that. I always wonder how conscious Chaplin was of creating a myth. I mean, when he shot it, was he rubbing his hands and going: "he he, this is going doing in movie history, folks" or was it completely innocent? I somehow doubt that.

[foxpawz]

he doesn't even mentiont he Circus in his autobiography because it was a nightmare to shoot and his personal life at that time was hell. but he was such a perfectionist, he took some 200 takes for one scene sometimes, tried every variation till he was satisfied. i think to an extent he knew he was creating something great but it's hard to tell is people will catch on to it when you shoot something.

[jayflo92008]

Chaplin WAS a perfectionist, and he was very conscious about aesthetics and public perception. He never started with a script and was notorious for taking ridiculous amounts of time devising and setting up every single shot in his films. City Lights for example took almost a year to finish.

[ZeroDaHero00]

cool glad my friend rated this!

[Serilu]

that scene is so beautiful and full of meaning..

I love charlie chaplin.

[SuperNosfe1994]

the star is him. but he says "no". Im the tramp  and then he goes..

[bubbajimmy8]

im cryin , well you know how the theory about the end of the world , well if im wrong and it happens , im watchin this , god bless charlie chaplin

[Useless2112]

Beautiful.

[maserro]

Esta ultima escena me emociona en el alma, es uno de los finales mas maravillosos que he visto en pelicula alguna. La tristeza de la soledad y la alegria de la esperanza. Charles Chaplin mi idolo de toda la vida.

[follonic]

Me adhiero totalmente.

[jerryaltman]

That's the kind of thing that don't exist today anymore. He quite of any chance with the girl he likes, just to see her happy, cause he really cares for her, more than for his own feelings.

[espossioko]

It´s so funny we he leaves, but with energy and courage to continue his life.

[Turbokicka]

beautiful.

[mir974]

sad ..and jolly;`} what an Actor!

[bubbajimmy8]

awsome ending to an awsome film

[yingwudaying]

sad

[bokatapan]

dream on

[mcureglo]

Definitely my favourite movie ending ever and gorgeous music. It's so sad--he's lost his love and the cirucs; he's all alone. Plus it's the end of an era for Chaplin in some ways. This was his last all-silent movie aka. no sound effects. Also, after this the tramp costume was different.

[jerryaltman]

In this film the Tramp shows that he cares more for the girls happiness than for his own. If we compare with today, when people just care about pleasure... What a sad and selfish society we have now.

[steffs87]

i agree with you,a selfish materialistic society.

ciao!

[thecopykidofthestarz]

@jerryaltman I know. now its hitting younger people. I should know I see people hurt themselves without even knowing it. its sickening.

[MrSwoops01]

@jerryaltman our society has always been "sad and selfish." the only things thats changed is why it is sad and selfish. we used to enslave and own another race, we used to not allow women to vote or own property, etc., its not just now that all the sudden we have become sad and selfish.

[ColibriMuse]

The Little Tramp is such an extraordinary part of Charlie Chaplin.

Love them both :D

[basicskil]

I just love the way it isn't sad at all in the end, as he optimistically changes his walk as if to say 'chin up mate'. Wonderful stuff.

[PhillipCreeper]

The shame was the the circus owner never showed the tramp any gratitude for saving the circus.

[orbison]

The circus owner showed nobody gratitude. He represents the selfish society i have read in most of these comments. Just see him in the first scene of the movie and you will know.

[monkeylubba]

best ending ever.

[noprisoners22]

Love you Charlie

[dibyajyotighosh]

an aside, the way he kicks the ball of paper, he could have been a footballer, he also kicks a ball of paper like this in another film before entering a jail.

[eisprinz]

I think you're talking about City Lights, but he kicks a cigarette, not a ball of paper.

[reichmarshall]

That was a signature move of his. He did it in a lot of movies.

[eisprinz]

True, true. But isn't City Lights the only one where he does it before going to jail? Or does he do it in Modern Times as well?

[NEMESIS1999]

YES WICKED YEARS WERE THOSE

[littlewatermelongilr]

dear charlie