Comments on: The Sexy Tramp: Monsieur Verdoux and Charlie Chaplin as Stud

By: Kat

Kat — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:57:28 +0000

You state that in the film Monsieur Verdoux that Chaplin was a serial killer of ‘old coots.’ What the hell did that make him? He was well into his sixties when he did the film. Did that make him a young buck? While there is no doubt that he was a genius on many levels, Chaplin exploited women. He was a pedophile who preyed on underage kids decades younger than him. Meanwhile, he mocked older women in his films, such as Verdoux, The Great Dictator, Limelight, A King in New York, and Modern Times. He used women, young and old, to his own ends, as long as he got off or got a laugh out of his viewership. This is what art and ‘greatness’ is in a patriarchy, however. While I don’t deny the man was a good filmmaker, I’ve lost a lot of respect for him due to this and have gotten a bad taste in my mouth for the films of his I used to like. I’m surprised he didn’t dump Oona for a 14 year old after she aged a little. I’m not being harsh, I’m telling it like it is whether ppl like it or not.

By: nadia greene

nadia greene — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:36:14 +0000

i don’t care what he did, he was a sweet man trying to make everybody else happy all the time. if i was born in those days i would have fucked him too. no matter how old i was or he. i am a true fan of him and i don’t like it would people talk bad about him. people overlook at how talented he was and how he made people laugh and forget about their problemss when i watch him on the computer and television i am happy the whole day! I LOVE U CHARLIE!

By: Laura August

Laura August — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:50:30 +0000

Oh man, I love my fellow Chaplin fans!

The first thing I wanna do is jump up and defend the guy–being that I too am a Chaplin fan. But…
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….c’mon, yeah, he did sort of have a thing for the young things. The really, REALLY young things!

We’re so silly to immediately illuminate the “gold digging” gals as soon as a harsh word is raised to dear Mr. Chaplin. It is what it is. He was older, he “should have known better”, but really, he learned his lesson, didn’t he? His attraction was natural to his own disordered and strange self, as it was for the girls who fell for him. Daddy issues abound!
Oona was an adult when they were married, and he was, for all accounts, a happily marrried man till his death. That sort of redeems the guy don’t it?

By the way, if I were 16 and Charlie Chaplin’ came a knockin at my door, you’d have to physically restrain me. That requires saying.. That man was so charming, even when he was an asshole, who didn’t adore him? He could have his pick.

He kind of liked to run the show, ya know?

By: dddd

dddd — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:33:56 +0000

If there was such a thing as detecting lies, then every boy or man over 14 and under 100 years of age would be in trouble. Men have always been attracted to teenage virgins. It called normal. In most countries girls were legally married at 12 years of age for thousands of years. Enough with the hatred. almost every straight guy on earth lover teenage girls even if they pretend they don’t.

By: hunnybunch

hunnybunch — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:55:53 +0000

“Hetty Kelly who Chaplin fell for when she was just 15…” — you fail to mention that he was 19 years old at the time.

although he *should* have kept “his dick in his pants”, as you say, calling chaplin a pedo is harsh. true, he was far from being a saint, but you should also get some of your facts straight. eg. lita’s mother presented her daughter as of age when she was signed onto “gold rush” and then kept pushing her daughter into a relationship with her employer. and oona became pregnant *after* she was married to chaplin.

as for his first wife: yes, he *did* bed her when he was nearly 30 years old (something screams panettiere/ventimiglia in the back of my head…), but the gold-digger also tricked him into the marriage by pretending to be pregnant.