The Great Dictator - Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin himself conceptualized around the recognition of what is probably the largest single instance of trademark infringement in the 20th century (that of Adolph Hitler's theft of a toothbrush mustache Tramp's), The Great Dictator delves deeply into the dynamics of fascism. 12-minute prologue that opens the film still delights of World War I in almost Three Stooges-like slapstick; absurdity show gob hit four-year conflict along arbitrary boundaries at the expense of many young European men.

Chaplin opened with a shot, tracking left-right sweep of the grid pattern such as barbed wire and barricades cross-shaped, while the anonymous soldiers rushed through the maze the rat-like trench. Kubrick could be stuck to the Glory Road, and you will not see the difference. Of course, you immediately recognize the unique gifts that Chaplin exaggerated the comics: Big Bertha phallic cannon and anti-aircraft batteries circling it like an out-of-control camera crane operator. If the line rings false glory because chic veneer covers strains underlying cynicism "let's all sing about our common humanity" goodery feel like sticky nougat, The Great Dictator revealed in exactly the opposite. Throughout the film, huggable sentiment doom mask, vaguely ironic to say the heart. When Commander clueless Schultz reminisces about his beloved wife back Tomainia (while the plane is set to crash, no less), this is a bitter send-ups All Quiet on the Western Front-style depiction of innocence crushed by flowery war: "How she loves lilies . He is not going to cut them for fear it would hurt themes like taking a life to cut a daffodil. “

Somehow, without the benefit of historical perspective, Chaplin is able to recognize the difference between each of the slaughter of World War I and World War II. Although the way Britain, France, Germany, and Russia presented the youth who are victims of human mass scale, nationalism involved in World War I, although the sundering of the continent, is still more or less inclusive. Nations stand together to protect their homeland, regardless of religion, ethnicity, or political. On the other hand, murder, suicide cannibalistic removed by the Third Reich, beautifully symbolized by emerging from adenoid-world balloon Hynkel's, is built entirely on the exclusivity-face not only the imagined enemy outside the country, but in it also. Tomainia's Phooey very calculatingly discuss the importance of fomenting anti-Jewish sentiment to distract her non-Jewish majority from the real problems the country faces. This panem et circenses but without the bread and the whole country turned into a circus.

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