Time Periods Represented in The Kid and Iron Jawed Angels

New and exciting technologies have always played a huge role in the culture of American people. When the motion picture came out it was no surprise that both consumers and producers were more than happy to get in on the action. Back in the 1920’s film was still pretty new and was only in black and white with no sound, but the films were always accompanied by orchestral pieces to help set the mood. The art of movie-making has come a long way since then with the addition of not only color and audio, but new techniques and new ideas. Both The Kid and Iron Jawed Angels are very popular films about the early 1900’s. Although they share some common thoughts, but because they were made in two completely different time periods their focuses are†¦show more content†¦In the movie Charlie Chaplin plays a tramp who finds a baby that has been abandoned by an unfit mother. At first Chaplin tries to get rid of the baby, but when that fails he decides to take him in as his own . The movie then skips ahead to when the boy is about five years old and shows Chaplin and the kid scamming their neighbors by breaking their windows and then making them pay for Chaplin to fix them. One day the kid gets sick so Chaplin calls a doctor who, after seeing the kid’s living conditions’ calls the police to have the child taken away. The rest of the movie is about Chaplin’s journey to rescue the kid and ends with a dramatic reuniting scene. Although being set in the same time period, Iron Jawed Angels and The Kid are almost nothing alike. They were both accurate in their portrayal of the time period in which the movies take place, but they accomplished this in totally different ways. First of all, The Kid was through the eyes of a man. This man has a kid and is living a poorer life than most, and his main concern in life is to just make it through the day. Considering that unemployment was just starting to take a dramatic rise in America, and that the living conditions were very poor, The Kid is a great representation of the time period in its own way. In Iron Jawed Angels the film is being portrayed from a women’s point of view. Not just any women though, but the