Synopsis of El Chico (The Kid)

Production: Charles Chaplin

Script: Charles Chaplin

Music: Charles Chaplin (composed 1971)

Photography: Roland Totheroh

Distribution: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan, Henry Bergman and Lita Gray

Country: USA

Year: 1921

Gender: Comedy

Duration: 68 minutes approx.

The film The Boy (1921) is a creation, almost entirely by Sir Charles Chaplin, he was in charge of the script, the music, the direction and the production of this film belonging to the silent comedy cinema, a genre in which the creator of this film became an icon, with a total of 90 films; Unlike other filmmakers, Chaplin managed to pass the barrier from silent films to talkies very well and being until today a great idol around the world.

Recorded in 1921 The boy tells the story of a happy and relaxed homeless man (Charles Chaplin) who finds a baby who was abandoned by his mother (Edna Purviance) due to the precarious economic situation that she lives, which does not allow her to support her son, while she tries to get ahead, the cute homeless man adopts the boy (Jackie Coogan) who helps him earn a living by breaking windows, after he became a glazier makeshift; The mother is successful and will do everything possible to find and get her son back.

With a dramatic touch within comedy, El chico, is a film made under an original script written by Chaplin, presented with a reduced time and a spectator focus, that is, the spectator knows more than the character.

Despite the fact that silent movies can be tedious and even boring, this film is a clear example that it doesn't have to be that way, because in this film the English comedian manages that a dramatic story is relaxed by introducing his characteristic sense of humor.