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Rips off Hitler and Hitler loved it!!

This is definately the most serious film from Charles Chaplin of the ones that I have seen so far from him. This film is very serious obviously because it is a war film. It was a rather serious film too because of how the story was written especially when it was made. It was funny that Chaplin was ripping off Adolf Hitler with all the speeches, walks, impressions etc. It was probably scary aswell because Hitler was alive at the time and was a dark time because it was almost like the start of the Holocaust. Apparently, Hitler really admired Chaplin after The Great Dictator. There have been alot of piss-takes of Hitler but this one tops them all.


Charlie Chaplin's acting in this film as both Adenoid Hynkel who is the Dictator Of Tomania and who takes the piss out of Hitler with this character. His acting was funny as the Jewish Barber aswell but was funnier as his other character. As far as Adenoid Hynkel is concerned, Chaplin shows the comedy side to who is probably the coldest and most evil person that ever lived. Chaplin was a man who could always see through the comedy side of things no matter what happens which is what I love about him. His performance as the Jewish Barber was like another piss-take with Hitler aswell because how Hitler or any of his men would treat a Jew. It was funny because he was mocking Hitler but wasn't funny because it really happened. Chaplin's most serious performance and because of this, he did deserve his first and only acting Oscar nomination.


The direction from Chaplin was almost the same as the films that he has done before The Great Dictator with very similar selections of camera angles, very similar sorts of characters and also the way it was filmed as far as things like music is concerned. The screenplay was very original which isn't what most war films are like. They are either true stories or books. Chaplin just thought of how he was going to write it. One thing that slightly disappointed me about The Great Dictator was that the two characters Chaplin was portraying were switching really quickly. It took quite a long while for it to get into both characters and their storylines.


It is the first non-silent Chaplin film that I have seen so far. It is my third favourite Chaplin film of the ones I have seen. I liked The Gold Rush and especially Modern Times more. The Great Dictator is the masterpiece of comedy-war films and of a masterful piss-take of the cold-blooded human that was Adolf Hitler.

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Added by SJMJ91
14 years ago on 29 January 2010 19:42