"He rose from the slums of Victorian London to become arguably cinema's first great comic artist, with The Great Dictator and Limelight among his masterpieces. Now the script of Charlie Chaplin's unfinished final film is to be published, having been pieced together from drafts, storyboards and sketches, on which he had been working before his death in 1977, at the age of 88."
"For hours, for weeks, for months, he [Chaplin] studied the movements of birds in flight the living mechanics of wings. He watched films where men and women soared through the sky. But the techniques back then did not satisfy him. He wanted to find his own way crafted, personal a way to translate the sensation of flight on to the screen. I believe he would have found it. But time clipped his wings."
Charlie Chaplin conceived The Freak as a fantasy about Sarapha, a beautiful winged creature with the power to cure illness and bring peace. Chaplin planned a cameo as a startled drunk watching Sarapha fly over the Houses of Parliament. The surviving working papers for The Freak are more extensive than for any of his other films and show he was close to shooting. The materials include scene breakdowns, special effects notes, wing designs, financial projections, minutes of technical meetings and production schedules. Chaplin cast his teenage daughter Victoria as Sarapha and rigorously studied bird flight to create a personal cinematic technique.
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