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His New Profession

His New Profession

1914
Comedy
Short Film
16m
Charlie meets a couple and agrees to care for the man's crippled uncle. After the couple breaks up the man's new girl drops some eggs which Charlie slips on while trying to control the wheelchair. Charlie sets up the uncle near another wheelchair on a jetty, from which he lifts a beggar's cup and "invalid" sign. These he places with the uncle, and money begins to roll in. Charlie takes the money and buys himself a drink. (imdb)
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His New Profession

1914
Comedy
Short Film
16m
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Rated 01 Oct 2009
0
8th
Ugh. Charlie abuses people in wheelchairs
Rated 29 Nov 2009
1
12th
The plot summary on here tells the entire movie, dammit. Really unfunny and just flat out cruel most of the time.
Rated 27 Aug 2015
45
13th
Hilarious (well, it's Chaplin, so duh). Charlie shows off his ''loveable asshole'' role. He's like that one friend you have who's a shitty human being, but you don't care because they're so much fun. And this is so visually stunning. This short is a product of his time, though. The wheelchair jokes and treatment of ''cripples'' are horrible.
Rated 09 Jun 2013
30
4th
The egg scene is amusing and the reveal on the "cripple" would be pretty good in another context. However, context is exactly the problem here. Several of Chaplain's early shorts suffer from the problem we find here: not a single person has any likability or even sympathy. Even the man with the broken leg acts so pompous as to bleed any sympathy away. This leaves the antics on screen feeling dissonant in relation to the self-absorbed people on the screen.
Rated 16 Feb 2014
27
35th
Elicits a couple laughs, but no empathy at all.
Rated 30 Nov 2019
40
19th
Mildly amusing but nothing more.

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