Words of Wisdom from Charlie Chaplin

[elder999]

This is the first film where Charlie Chaplin speaks and has dialogue.Remember, The Great Dictator came out in 1939, so as awkward as it seems, it was oddly prophetic and comical. At the time, people thought the scene depicting the destruction of a Jewish ghetto was over the top for a comedy, but now we know better, don't we?

[yt]WhaDIYnCDDg[/yt]
True then. True now. Yup,yup,yup.

 

[Twin Fist]

i had never heard his voice

 

[MA-Caver]

Chaplin was a brilliant comic and overall genius. He also was a very compassionate human being who understood human suffering. His Tramp spoke volumes to millions of people without the utterance of a single word.

 

[granfire]

This is the first film where Charlie Chaplin speaks and has dialogue.Remember, The Great Dictator came out in 1939, so as awkward as it seems, it was oddly prophetic and comical. At the time, people thought the scene depicting the destruction of a Jewish ghetto was over the top for a comedy, but now we know better, don't we?

[yt]WhaDIYnCDDg[/yt]
True then. True now. Yup,yup,yup.

later in life he said he would not have made the movie had he know how really terrible the situation was.

I, for one am really glad that he did make this movie. I think it is something of a pandora's box thing, once you know you can't un-know it. So to us young folks there is that certain chill people then did not have.


And you do have to really hand it to him: he captured political speech in it's essence!(No, not the jewish barber...)

 

[HammockRider]

Hippie!!

Just kidding.I 'm confused, is he lying to his people in this scene or is he serious? I guess I'll have to watch it to find out. Thanks for posting this elder.

 

[granfire]

Hippie!!

Just kidding.I 'm confused, is he lying to his people in this scene or is he serious? I guess I'll have to watch it to find out. Thanks for posting this elder.

that sscene is the little Jewish Barber who got mistaken for the Dictator being pressed into giving a speech.
The 'real' dictator speeches are some gobbledegook with speech patterns closely resembling Hitler's. Much of hot air and no content:

 

[JohnEdward]

Funny how that speech isn't famous, lost to obscurity. How it isn't taught in our schools, or upheld and referenced by our politicians.

 

[granfire]

Funny how that speech isn't famous, lost to obscurity. How it isn't taught in our schools, or upheld and referenced by our politicians.

yeah, well, you know that Charles Chaplin became a persona non grata late in his life in the US....

 

[Tez3]

yeah, well, you know that Charles Chaplin became a persona non grata late in his life in the US....

Yes he had to leave because of the McCarthy witchhunts against the communists. Sir Charles Chaplin was told never to darken the the United States of America's doors again.

 

[elder999]

Yes he had to leave because of the McCarthy witchhunts against the communists. Sir Charles Chaplin was told never to darken the the United States of America's doors again.

I remember when he came back to the U.S. for his Oscar. Pretty shameful how we've treated people over the years.....

"My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them."

-Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin in his autobiography