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    Kathy A. Weaver Mrs. Mary Scudier Writing l 2 October 2017 Dictate Fate, Then vs. Now British comedian Charlie Chaplin produced a comedic satire, The Great Dictator, which reflected Hitler’s endeavors. The film was released in 1941 and before its production, WWI ended and the Germans sought out a scapegoat for their devastated economy. Due to this, Hitler rose to power by assigning blame to the Jewish community. The Germans then committed awful acts on the Jewish population, contributing to WWII

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    The Great Dictator is a satirical comedy about the dictator of Tomainia, Adenoid Hynkel, and what happens when he attempts to expand his empire, and ultimately conquer the world. Hynkel’s story parallels the story of a poor Jewish barber as he tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime. The plot of this movie was meant to satirically mirror the events that were happening in the real world after WWI. When Charlie Chaplin began production on The Great Dictator, the war had yet to begin. In fact

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    what he is talking about because it 's really important to him.I think that he is scared to talk.He like to help everyone. The issue of the film is when the barber is given the opportunity to speak to the people of the two warring countries as the dictator. . In fact, Charlie Chaplin felt that this would twist his message and eventually his success would fall apart.

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    Charles Spencer Chaplin was definitely a man that brought a smile to everyone’s face that watched him. Charlie Chaplin was born on April 15, 1889, in London, England to the couple Charles Chaplin, Sr., and Hannah Hill (Lynn, Kenneth, pg.376). Chaplin's goal was to achieve the title of the most famous person in the world. And he was willing to do anything to reach that goal. When Charlie’s mother fell sick, he sang for her on stage at the age of five. Everyone in the audience loved him and showered

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    The Great Dictator

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    As soon as The Great Dictator, directed by Charlie Chaplin in 1940, begins the audience is immediately brought back into World War I and then the following decades of international conflict and turmoil (Dir Chaplin 1940). However, the entire film is filled with twists and metaphors, as the film serves as a satire of Hitler’s regime. Chaplin even resembles Hitler, which not only provides the double-casting of the film but enables the message of the film, echoed in the concluding speech, to resonate

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    Great Dictator, Chaplin imposes a comic element in order to denounce the Nazi power and Adolf Hitler with a light touch. Through this satirical movie, Chaplin is trying to enlighten the audience on how heinous Adolf Hitler was. When this movie was initially released to the public, many people in the world were not fully aware of Hitler’s atrocities. This film became very controversial because people began to realize the resemblance between the character Adenoid Hynkel, the despotic dictator of Tomainia

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    The Great Dictator

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    The Great Dictator Assignment Charles Chaplin’s The Great Dictator is a film based around the persecution and mistreatment of Jews during the late 1930’s and early 1940’s by Hitler and Nazi Germany. The Great Dictator uses themes such as standing up against mistreatment and incorporates humor and comedy to criticize Hitler and Nazism. Mistreatment and injustice were two of the most prominent themes in the film. The Jews were subject to hate because of the way Hynkel looked down upon them.

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    petty rivalries. However, the goal of the speaker in this speech actually points towards his desire to gain power, which he will then abuse as it is written in the name,” The Great Dictators Speech.” The main purpose of the speech itself is to inform people and all of humanity has the power of themselves rather than a dictator. In other words: Freedom and peace in the world. Chaplin’s character talks of how man has fallen, succumbed to greed and misery, which then turns into war and bloodshed. He uses

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    Spencer “Charlie” Chaplin, was known as an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era known as silent film, and also wrote one of the greatest speeches ever written. It is during his speech, in the movie “The Great Dictator”, released in 1941, that Chaplin gives one of the most memorable speeches that is still conversed about in the present, and has in the past year been trending on social media due to its’ undeniable relevance towards today’s social issues. As with

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    Chaplin: Film Revolutionary A revolutionary idea are certain movements that change life as we know it entirely, take for example the revolutionary idea of a film. There would be no film if it were not for it’s forefathers such as photography, pictures drawn on caves, yet still dating back to the time of story telling. None of these implicit ideas would be able to be born without the Humans that set off these chains of events. An important influence in Film is 1940’s celebrity, Charlie Chaplin, by

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