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DVD The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition)
Since Adolf Hitler had the audacity to borrow his mustache from the most famous celebrity in the world--Charlie Chaplin--it meant Hitler was fair game for Chaplin's comedy. (Strangely, the two men were born within four days of each other.) The Great Dictator, conceived in the late thirties but not released until 1940, when Hitler's war was raging across Europe, is the film that skewered the tyrant. Chaplin plays both Adenoid Hynkel, the power-mad ruler of Tomania, and a humble Jewish barber suffering under the dictator's rule. Paulette Goddard, Chaplin's wife at the time, plays the barber's beloved; and the rotund comedian Jack Oakie turns in a weirdly accurate burlesque of Mussolini, as a bellowing fellow dictator named Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria. Chaplin himself hits one of his highest moments in the amazing sequence where he performs a dance of love with a large inflated globe of the world. Never has the hunger for world domination been more rhapsodically expressed. The slapstick is swift and sharp, but it was not enough for Chaplin. He ends the film with the barber's six-minute speech calling for peace and prophesying a hopeful future for troubled mankind. Some critics have always felt the monologue was out of place, but the lyricism and sheer humanity of it are still stirring. This was the last appearance of Chaplin's Little Tramp character, and not coincidentally it was his first all-talking picture. --Robert Horton
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Brilliant - Chaplin Dictates
I think it is a brilliant comedy featuring political figures and creating a mixture of irony and solemnity.
As for his speech at the end, it was not awkward - unless you call bravery and speaking out for truth "awkward". And if that's how you feel, then YOU are AWKWARD!
Believe me, it's great... English Comedy at its black & white peak!!! Buy it.
The Great Dictator is Great boxset :P
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The Great Dictator (2 Disc Special Edition)
When Chaplin released the Great Dictator United States had not yet entered the war and this was the first and best attack on Nazi Germany. The dance with the globe and the manic speeches are all right on the mark. In fact the fake German is so hillarious that one starts to laugh hysterically every time one listens to it. However, it is the last 6 minutes that are true magic. Chaplin steps out of of his charachter, and pleads for the world to cast of dictators and he even quotes Luke 17 which is brilliant move. As for acting it is stupendous. Paulette Godard is astounding and she is beautifull even with this baggy looking clothes. Chaplin is brilliant in his portrayal of the tramp and Hynkel. This is the best anti Nazi move ever made.
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