LGM Film Club, Part 541: The Count

Another Chaplin film I’ve seen recently in 1916’s The Count. It shares much in common with The Adventurer, which we discussed a couple of days ago here. But The Count, where the hijinks also follow working class men entering into wealthy spaces impersonating someone to get access to a hot rich girl, includes some excellent food jokes. First, there is a long bit about a smelly round of cheese that makes it really hard for people to hide since the cheese gets thrown around anywhere. Second, and really even better given how totally foreign this seems to us today, is a bit about how to eat spaghetti and how our heroes just can’t understand how to do it. It seems almost impossible to consider pasta something so strange and wild that bits on how to eat it end up in good comedies, but that sure was the case in 1916.