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Speech In Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator

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The scene our group selected from Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator shows Chaplin giving a speech about why the people should not give into the power of dictators. One technical aspect that was emulated from Chaplin's speech was the use of dialogue. Chaplin begins his speech negatively, softly, and calmly. In the beginning of Chaplin’s speech, he speaks in a negative tone: “We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way” (Chaplin 0:00:14- 0:32). Chaplin explains how human beings should behave. From 2:00:44 Chaplin gradually gets louder, …show more content…

From 1:58:54 until 2:00:13 the camera is up close to Chaplin and shows him above the arms, taking up most of the viewing space, making it seem like he is directly talking to the viewer. Then from 2:00:23-2:01:23 Chaplin is shown from the waist above. Then at 2:01:23 the camera zooms onto Chaplin and shows only his arms and above. The purpose of the scene is to ensure that the viewer will remember the speech and see how passionate Chaplin is while giving the speech to the viewer. In the first minute and eleven seconds of the speech, it starts off in a negative and calm tone about how Maumee Valley does not live up to the expectation that students have the right to leave trash all over the school. Then it gradually transitions into a positive, hopeful tone for how Maumee Valley students can help Maumee Valley live up to expectation. Finally, in the final fifty-one seconds in the speech, Wyatt provides a solution to how Maumee Valley can live up to its expectations. In the speech, our group uses various events that have happened in the school and are well-known to both the students and faculty, “the experience of familiarity has a simple but powerful quality of ‘pastness’ that seems to indicate that it is a direct reflection of prior experience” (Kahneman 61). In our speech we reference the incident of when Danny Wainstein found grapes in the vending machine, and the many times plates and food trays have been found lying in the commons. The familiarity of these events

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