The Gold Rush

“The Gold Rush” is a brilliant comedic film that expresses the matters of greed and love. The film showed characters interacting with each other with many significant body language and movements. Though the film was a silent motion picture with a few subscripts, the audience had the opportunity to fully understand the mood and the important expression the film tempted to capture. The film also used classical music and great visual emotions, in which the characters portrayed during the film, to help the audience understand the conflicts and essential features of the story line.

In the film of “The Gold Rush”, the informative word “The Tramp” had so many significant values for the theme of the gold finding experience. The film illustrated a character that throughout the movie was referred to “The little tramp”. The comedic scenes were at times very sad and dramatic, but added a sense of funny for the audience to enjoy. “The Tramp” character started off by being a loan prospector that was walking along a large ice cliff. He eventually found himself in a stranger’s cabin, with the owner and another large man that currently found gold in sight named Big Jim. A terrible blizzard occurred and all three men were forced to remain in the cabin together without food. The three men then choose cards to determine who will go out to find something to eat. The loan prospector and Big Jim remained in the cabin and were left along top starve.

Eventually these two men part, where the loan prospector found his way into town and built up deep emotions for a woman named Georgia, at the Monte Carlo dance hall. He is immediately infatuated with this woman from the dance hall. Georgia approaches the man in order to spite her current boyfriend Jack Cameron. The Tramp character appeared unclean, unattractive, and senseless to everyone in the dance. He was very much looked down toward everyone in that room during this scene. The tramp tries to impress Georgia and her friends to a new year eve dinner at a cabin he found around town, but was completely ignored. The tramp was so heart-broken and distraught. Big Jim appears at the tramp loneliness moments and agrees to share his gold wealth with him as long as he shows him where the original cabin was located. They both agreed on it, and found themselves grand and fortunate.

The ironic aspect of this film was towards the very end when the tramp and Georgia appeared to be in the same ship. Once Georgia realized that the tramp was now superior, she then admired him and he foolishly immediately accepted her back, even though of what she did to him in the past. This story line truly expressed the comedic theme of this movie. The Tramp character truly highlighted what the director wanted to capture.