Richards Favorite Videos

This speaks to me much more than the original video where the singer just undresses on a snowy cliff and jumps off it.

BONUS: Lady & The Tramp version below if you’re more into the dog thing…

A music video of three Charlie Chaplin movies, “The Gold Rush”, “City Lights”, and “Modern Times” to the song “One Day She’ll Love Me” sung by Sting and Shawn Colvin.

Harley reflects on what led to her partnering with the Clown Prince of Crime, the Joker.
The comic book that this episode was adapted from was originally released in 1994 as a special issue of The Batman Adventures based on the show Batman: The Animated Series. It won the Eisner Award for “Best Single Story.”

Poison Ivy is seen in Arkham Asylum during the flashback to Harley Quinn’s origins, meaning that this episode takes place at least after Poison Ivy’s premiere episode, “Pretty Poison”. This episode takes place with the designs of Batman and the Joker from Batman Gotham Knights in Harley’s flashback of how she became Harley Quinn. But at that time she was in Batman: The Animated Series which had different designs for them.

Allusions:

Joker: May the Floss be with you. This is a direct allusion to the movie Star Wars, even more so because it was Mark Hamill, voicing the Joker, who said it as Luke Skywalker.
Title: While there have been several movies by this name, the title almost certainly alludes to the most famous - the 1935 movie starring Peter Lorre as an insane doctor obsessed with a beautiful woman who replaces her mutilated hands with those of a knife murderer.

The Four Marx Brothers each do a verse from the song ‘Everyone Says I Love You’ from the movie ‘Horse Feathers’. Chico’s is the best, if not for the upbeat tone, then for the historical inaccuracy. Mosquito’s sting and Columbus chatted up Pocahontas. Awesome.

In Between Showers, Chaplin and Sterling play two young men, Masher and Mirval Masher, who fight over the chance to help a young woman, played by Emma Bell Clifton, cross a muddy street. Eventually a police officer, played by Chester Conklin, arrests Mirval.

inal Scene Of City Lights Where Virginia Cherrill Recognises Charles Chaplin (Her Benefactor Whom She Supposes To Be Rich And Handsome) By Touch..

he ending is widely acclaimed as one of cinema’s most touching. The tramp, released from jail, ends up on the same street corner where the flower girl, her sight restored, has opened up a flower shop with her grandmother; every time a rich man comes into the shop she wonders if this is her mysterious benefactor. The tramp spots a flower in the gutter and as he goes to pick it up is tormented by a couple of kids as the flower girl laughs. Then he turns around, sees her, and stops. She laughs and tells her grandmother she has made another conquest. Seeing the flower fall apart in his hand, she goes out to give him a flower and a coin–and then she touches his hand and stops when she realizes it feels familiar. Slowly her hand goes up to touch the face of the tramp. “You?” she says as she realizes that the tramp before her is the reason she can see. “Yes” replies the nervous tramp, his face a map of shame, pride, love and devotion. “You can see now?,” he asks. “Yes. I can see now,” she replies (in later prints Chaplin removed the last title card since it was obvious what she is saying). The film ends with an unusual close up of the tramp and the music continues to swell for some time after the shot fades to black.

This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he would become famous. He is a rich, upper-class gentleman whose romance is endangered when his girlfriend oversees him being embraced by a maid. Chaplin’s romantic interest in this film, Minta Durfee, was the wife of fellow Keystone actor, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle. “Cruel, Cruel Love” was presumed a lost film for 50 years until a rather good complete nitrate copy was discovered in South America. “Cruel, Cruel Love” was then copied and its original two reel format is available for sale… or right here on richardland.com

Cruel Cruel Love (1914)
Actors: Charlie Chaplin, Edgar Kennedy, Minta Durfee, Eva Nelson.
Directed by George Nichols, Mack Sennett