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Chaplin, 1918, First National: the Tramp as a doughboy in the trenches, then behind the German lines in a dream that the film does not bother to label as a dream until it has to. Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin as the Kaiser. The tree disguise, the flooded dugout, the letter from home. Released weeks before the Armistice. It is a war comedy that treats the war as a job, and the job as something you can win in your sleep.
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The trenches as a job, released weeks before the Armistice. A tree disguise, a flooded dugout, a letter from home read over someone's shoulder. He captures the Kaiser in a dream the film does not label until it must. Watch the waking. The face is the last shot.
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