There are many scenes in this movie where the Tramps wealthy friend is an entirely different person when he is sober and when he is drunk. One particular scene that stood out to me was the party scene. The scene opens up at the millionaire’s house, the music is done in a way that corresponds with how the people are dancing and acting. The music is loud and energetic like music would be at a party. Then the camera cuts to Tramp and the millionaire, it seems as though they were having a deep conversation in the middle of the party when a woman falls on the millionaire and takes him away. As the scene progresses you can tell that Tramp is drunk, then he ends up swallowing a whistle that effects his speech. Then the music stops and immediately we realize that this becomes a bad situation for Tramp. However, the other characters do not know that Tramp has swallowed a whistle so they continue on, a new song is started and is immediately interrupted by Tramps whistling voice.
This goes along with the luck Tramp has been having throughout the movie so far. He seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time or he ends up causing a problem. As he continues to whistle the surrounding characters become annoyed with him and so does his millionaire friend. I thought this scene was done well because it shows how quick things can turn for the character. By the music being slow, fast or absent we as the audience can sense when something is about to happen that is either good or bad.
The usage of the whistle I found to be a great idea because that can very well happen at a party, I am not sure about someone’s voice being replaced all together but swallowing a whistle is something that can happen. As Tramp exits the room to stop being an annoyance and to see what he can do about the whistle a cab pulls up thinking he was haling a cab. Then two dogs show up, Charlie Chaplin’s usage of the whistle here shows all the many different things whistles can be used for and I thought that was a great way to show how sound is interpreted. The same sound that one hears and interprets can be different for someone else. I may like a certain sound and someone may not, a sound I think is suppose to be a happy sound someone else may thing it is suppose to be a sad sound. The only things we hear from this movie are sounds, so the rhythm of the sound, the loudness of the sound all play key aspects to each scene we see throughout the movie.
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