it's weird. i dont know why people have lost the appreciation for heart warming and magical perfect melodies like this one and stardust and all those great melodies. i want them back

Music, writing, acting, producing, and directing by Charlie Chaplin. Is there anything he couldn't do?

Very powerful message. You must fight, but don't be angry to the world and circunstances. Always smile. Chaplin was a genius.

this is wild. 2020 anyone?

@1:23 The final shot of the silent era is also one of Chaplin's most poignant.

I cried the first time I watched this, I was seven years old. Almost ten years later, I am watching this again and sobbing like a child.

They're broken because of unemployment and the Great Depression. One of the greatest songs of the 20th century.

Watching Charlie and Paulette walk off into the distance to the lovely melody that Charlie wrote is the best tonic there is for feeling down. Charlie captured the hearts of his generation with his genius. My late parents were entranced by him. Who could not smile when seeing his artless, comic walk? God bless you, angel Charlie. You touched millions of hearts, who could ask for more?

When I was watching Joker trailer I thought all the time what is this beautiful song? It sounds so familiar. And then I got it. It was from the ending of Modern Times. What a perfect music choice. Smile...

He was a genius!!! Not only, that he was the measure for many, many actors in the world, he also wrote little pieces in music, for example this wonderful song "Smile". Thank you, Charlie.

SMILE même si ton coeur est douloureux... 😅 Quelles belles paroles à la fin du film ! Cette musique et ce film nous touchent profondément.J'admire le talent de Charles Spencer Chaplin pour tous les textes et réalisations de ses films, il est un peu mon idole et nous donne des leçons de vie incroyables, pour tout ce qu'il a fait, je lui tire mon chapeau 🎩 Charlot on t'aime et on pense toujours à toi après tout ce temps passé sans toi ... Je connais tous ses courts-métrages et ses films que je garde précieusement dans ma mémoire. Je dis "Bravo l'artiste et encore Merci Sir Chaplin de nous avoir fait rêver et réfléchir dans le monde dans lequel l'on vit ! " ❤❤❤❤

and here we go, alone against an unfair world. Still relevant

Charlie Chaplin, i love you. You motivated people to be happy and smile in their life. It´s great that you lived on earth :DDD

There is no one bad music from Chaplin.This song it´s one of the best played.

"Smile" is still one of the best songs lyrically and musically ever written that has been covered by so many people like Michael Jackson, and it has touched millions of hearts, and it also has some influence in my own song, "Safe To Smile". (-:

There is such charm in this simple film. And it's something we've struggled to recreate in films for the past 30 years. Chaplin will be remembered forever.

Obviously I came from Joker, but damn does that orchestral score make me cry...

Charles was a genius. I truly believe our lives have immeasurably enriched by his time on this planet. May you Rest in Peace Mr Chaplin. Your work here is done, and so much work you did! I have a buddy who is 65 years old whose work on this planet is just beginning. Been a builder all his adult life, now focusing on his career as a singer and composer, he is a tenor with a world class voice, though he is completely unknown at the moment. Please remember his name, Vito Montforte, born in Sicily. I truly believe he will be world famous within a few short years, his voice is like that of Mario Lanza and, he can reach the High Cs like Luciano Pavarotti. With La Fille d' Regiment, he reaches the high Cs 8 times as did Pavarotti. When he sings Ciao Ciao Bambina, I have tears in my eyes, when he sings O Sole Mio, I get goose bumps every time and I have heard him sing this song over 100 times. Thank you for reading my comment.

It seems to me that Charlie Chaplin remains one of the greatest geniuses of the last two hundred years. Respect and Honor for Charlie.

My favorite song as well. Brilluant movie. Chaplin had the ability to make a person laugh and cry in the same film. His film, "The Kid" is highly recommended.

I love Chaplin's film scores, and I think he is one of the best movie composers of all times. Beautiful music.

Absolute Genius!!! He could do anything, no matter how many times I see and hear this I tear up and get goosebumps 🤷🏻‍♂️

That final shot @1:27 is one of Chaplin's most famous, and one of the most legendary in movie history because it marks the end of the silent era.

This was my grandfather's favorite song -so personally moving to me -haven't listened to it since my granpa passed-then Michael J. died and I thought I'd listen again since I heard he loved Chaplin's work and especially "Smile"as well-how I love Chaplin! Missed him very much- BTW,funny thing too, my grandfather's name was Michael also.

If not for Charles Chaplin, the film industry as we know it would not exist. He was one of the first (though Alice Guy Blache came before him) to combine comedy with pathos. Instead of always being "into the chase" as was Mack Sennett's credo, Chaplin made you care about every character in his films. He wrote, directed, edited, composed the scores, acted, and oversaw every element of the production of all his films. A brilliant visionary. Check out "Limelight". One of his best made in the 50s.

Agreed what a talent, what a song, and loved Paulette Goddard in anything she was in. ❤

I'm so glad Michael Jackson got inspired by this wonderful man and decided to sing this song as one of his tracks on History album. RIP MJ & Mr. Chalpin! You will forever be in our hearts as your legacy live on forever!!

The genius of the tenderness! You will always smile, Mr. Chaplin, and you make us to smile forever!

Wonderful clip from a wonderful movie. Chaplin could say more with silence than most modern directors can say with a million words. Thanks for posting.

This is how 'Joker 2' needs to end, with Joker giving a heart-warming speech about always keeping a smile on your face even when things seem hopeless, and he and Harley Quinn walking from (or toward?) a flaming Gotham.

Thank you, Thomas Bangalter

This is absolutely beautiful last scene. Their smiles deeply touched the string in my heart. It is makes me smile and move me to tears.

this is quite possibly one of the greatest and most beautiful scenes in movie history. more people my age need to see this and appreciate truely incredible and (emotionally not literally :P) moving ART such as this masterpiece.

Charles Chaplin. Sólo Charles Chaplin. Enamorada de él y de el cine mudo. ¿Que más puedo decir?. Se esta acabando todo eso, pero como él dijo, me voy con ello. Maravilloso!!!!

Agreed! Not enough of my generation know about Charlie Chaplin. I'm 12 by the way. And yeah, he was a perfectionist. And I agree with what you said about him being an artist,an actor, and comedian. I also think he was a poet, because his ability to produce things in such a way, he portrayed the characters he played as another person. But he also put himself and his feelings into them as well.

It's so hard to smile when you know that Charlie died at Christmas. And this is the second Christmas without Michael. They were 2 excentric people so missunderstood. They both suffered so much and saved themselves with their art.

I am in a difficult situation now. This movie, which I watched as a child, encourages me as an adult. Smile. Even if i cry, i smile. I've told myself.

My favourite song EVER

O grande mestre do cinema sem duvida nunca sera esquecido pelos fãs do cinema

Modern Times can be viewed on many different levels....comedy, drama, political, compassion. What I see is a great deal of love. Nearly 10 years after the advent of talkies, Chaplin decided to make the last Hollywood silent film. And with it he was saying good bye to everything he had known and loved artistically including the little tramp character. That's what I think makes this film especially poignant.

This is really a classic.

after the JOKER trailer, anyone else?

The instrumental version of the song is beautiful, but my favorite vocal version is by the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, who brought me here. When my childhood crush sings it, it's beautiful and his voice when he sings it, it's so breathtaking! I know that Charlie Chaplin was one of Michael's favorite actors growing up as a child, and I can see why he loved this silent movie actor so much. For a boy who had no childhood in Gary, Indiana, this was an escape for him when he was not performing on stage. In the movie, "Searching For Neverland," the Michael Jackson tribute artist Navi, who plays Michael in the movie, sings it to comfort his children, Prince, Paris, and Blanket during a campout outside Neverland Ranch as they fall asleep in their father's arms. I highly recommend the movie if you're a Michael fan, but that scene is so heartwarming to watch! He doesn't do the whole song, only a snippet of it. Love this song, I may have to watch Modern Times one day but I have Michael and Navi to thank for leading me here.

Charlie Chaplin the best comedian and director of the century!

I remember charlies movies always as charly is the clumsy traveler lonesome in this world. Sad.... But suddenly, out of the nothing, in the middle of the movie Modern times, a shining light appears that accompanies him and colours his life from that point on. Paulette Goddard. Charlies happy ending. A change in my perception of his destiny. Like an angel that came from the sky to change a poor mans life. Paulette, in this movie, caused me some important feelings, like an answer to a question.... An answer to mine.... I will not forget her for that. Actually both of them. Thanks.

One of my favorite songs. I tookk the time to learn the chords (and words) and sing it to myself with string accompaniment.

Wow...he was so far ahead of OUR time. Absolutely timeless.

Chaplin superando a los filósofos hace reir y llorar a todos los públicos.

Chaplin was an incredible artist whose concern for the victims of predatory economics shown brightly from every frame of this masterpiece and others he made. The film is amazing and has a perfect ending; incredibly poignant.

Esta es la mejor medicina para aflicción de corazón que jamás he escuchado, gracias Chaplin.

The Music is so haunting

One of the greatest closing shots in movie history!

so beautiful that you can't believe it's real

Chaplin and Jackson. Two men who entertaind us and made us cry and fall to our knees thank you for making us feel that there is a better tomarrow by just making us smile!

esta escena es de lo mas dulce de su obra. aunque lo llamen el creador de los golpes bajos. Para mi es el que lleno el cine de lo mejor de la humanidad. viva carlitos! viva charlot! viva Charlie.. en fin..VIVA CHAPLIN!

Truly one the great artist / actors of our country.

Happy Birthday to the Master of Comedy Charlie Chaplin! (Apr. 16) My introduction to cinema--the first films I ever owned and the first actor I deeply admired and imitated.

RIP OUR FRIEND MICHAEL....We miss you so much...

modern times is the best movie i have ever seen in my life!and pauleette was beautiful ❤

This is my favorite Charlie Chaplin movie.

Amo este video, esta actor , esta música... he llorado tanto con este tema...y cuando descubrí que era de C.Chaplin en esta película más...=,( Gran artista y gran canción, siempre recordad sonreir! =)

I saw this movie for the first time this year and I have to say that it is truely a piece of art. And thank you charles for writing such a beautiful music. The people should always remember you and what you stood for... "A day without a loughter is a wastes day" (I hope I didn`t quote him wrong :P)

Times that never, never getback again...if the world live like a One Country, we live like that movie...PEACE, IN LOVE AND, SMILING, ALWAYS SMILING...YES.

Possibly the greatest scene in the entire history of cinema.

I always watch this to cheer me up 🙂

Who would of thought Thomas Bangalter would use this video to tell the media that daft punk is over basically

iIN LUCI DELLA CITTA' E' SEMPLCEMENTE "GIGANTESCO" - PAROLE DETTE SENZA SUONO - IN PIENO SILENZIO!!!!

This is the last scenery. I can feel nostalgia from this scenery because I had seen this with my mother in my past. I love the scenery of Charlie Chaplin.

Chaplin's compositions produced two popular songs. "Smile", composed originally for Modern Times (1936) and later set to lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, was a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954. Michael Jackson's favorite song ;)

Paulette ! the gamin ! quand elle nous regarde et pleure, elle est Sublimissime ! Merveilleuse ! Pour Toujours !

This song is called smile but it has profound sadness to it.You smile to conquer all the fear and suffering you have been through.Can't find any more auitable music than this very own one composed by the great Charlie Chaplin.

Non mi stancherei mai di guardare questa scena. Niente mi incoraggia di più.

This ending makes me want to cry:( Its so beautiful, the song just evokes so much emotion. I love this movie!

Oh les larmes viennent si vite...

Beautiful, a testament to simpler times.

the composition is as beautiful as the movie

Charlie Chaplin, was known as "The King of Tragedy" Because the fine line between comedy and tragedy are so similar. It's like hot water feeling cold, and cold water feeling hot.

Je pense quille n'aura plus jamais de ci grand acteur qui nous temp fait rêver est qu'elle compositeur une vrais merveille quille repose en paix nous l'oublions jamais😢

Grandissimo attore, sceneggiatore, regista e compositore! The best!

Quando la invita a sorridere il cielo si riempie d'amore. Charlot per sempre con noi.

настоящие американцы никогда не унывают...улыбаются и беды перед ними отступают....оптимизм - главная черта национального характера американцев....

Daaa :) din pacate timpurile vechi erau moderne in adevaratul sens al cuvantului, pline de clasa si stil...

Chaplin was such a genius.

WE'LL ALWAYS BOW TO THE GENIUS OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN!!

Next to Mabel Normand, Paulette Goddard was Chaplin's best leading lady, and hands down the most beautiful.

Great ending to a great film. Probably my favorite Chaplin movie (either this or "The Kid")

One more tune to love! C.C. is the best music maker we ever had!

The simplest of all, but warmed me most than all.

Charly war ein ganz GROßER.Er bleibt unvergessen.

Modern times 👌 movie 🎥, charlie was a man of talent of that time,thank you Charlie for your movies that made me smile,r,I,p,god bless you , you may be gone but your memory in films lives on ,amen 🐦🌈💙☀️💟✌

I don't know why i cry listening this song

one of the best endings in cinematic history

Encouragement and Hope. Timeless human universal values!

he was simply a genius. the words to this song are incredible - i keep them on my kitchen cupboard for just those days.....

Making people laugh and cry (often at the same time) is a rare gift. Chaplin had it in spades and then some. He is - without a doubt - the greatest movie genius of all time. He also wrote most of the scores for his films and had some world hits with them, 'Smile' (by Timi Yuro) being just one of them; 'Love this is my Song' (Petula Clark) another Chaplin tune.

Beautiful sond The one by Michaell Jackson is a classic

Such a joy after seeing charlie gesturing to smile as if to me.

I think the ironic part about this song is that it's about making you smile...except it is one of the only songs I know of that can make me cry... : ).. thank you Charlie Chaplin. Thank you for bringing both comedy and tragedy to a world fast losing it's taste for truly classic material. For that there is always something to smile about.

The film clip, the words and the music is superb.

Nobody can beat Charley!