The Charlie Chaplin Speech from The Great Dictator (1940.

The Great Dictator (DVD) (1940). The barber must then give a speech in order to pretend he is the dictator and so delivers the greatest speech ever written. The speech itself is the highlight of the film for me, it blew me away, written by Chaplin himself in 1940 it is one of the most powerful speeches I have ever heard, and is still.

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Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin’s famously impassioned speech.

The Great Dictator was a political satire, condemning Hitler, Mussolini, the Nazis, and anti-Semitism. It was Chaplin’s first full-sound production and was nominated for five Academy Awards.

The Great Dictator was set in a fictitious country called Tomainia that was obviously Germany and Chaplin played two roles. He was a Jewish barber and he was also the country’s ferocious dictator, Adenoid Hynkel. They looked so alike that setting out to arrest the barber Hynkel’s stormtroopers seized the dictator instead.

The Great Dictator: Challenging authority with characters and commentary. The year is 1939. Nazi Germany has just invaded Poland. A week later, Chaplin begins shooting The Great Dictator. This film is a classic example of how film, both on the screen and off, can challenge authority.

The man known for his silent films, spoke some of the most powerful words on television, Charlie Chaplin re-enacted.

Finally, critics over the Hitler regime with “the Great Dictator” was also too unrealistic sometimes. As we know, Adolf Hitler was not only the ordinary people, he was also writer of his own book called “Mein Kampf”. He was also good artist. Maybe, according to me, Chaplin and many people, he was only a dictator.

Chaplin wrote, directed, and starred in The Great Dictator, and it was actually his first talkie. In it, he plays both a sweet Jewish barber and the terrifying dictator of the fictional Tomania.

The speech shines an uncomfortable light on what was happening with Germany, but making The Great Dictator at the start of of the war, Chaplin wasn’t aware of how horrifying the reality was.

Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, THE GREAT DICTATOR, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.'s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin's famously impassioned speech.

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