Charlie Chaplin

My favorite scene in The Great Dictator was when he was Hynkel in his main office and held up a balloon of a globe.  He starts to kick it up and down as if he controls the whole world.  He then lies on his desk and starts bouncing the globe off his buttocks which made me laugh hysterically.  I also loved his speech in the end about mankind being free.  It was a speech that I think should have been taking seriously around the world at that time.  He said things in the speech like “Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age”  that really gave me Goosebumps and I actually felt that I was watching a real political speech.

Most people would think that the death of Silent Cinema would have ruined Charlie Chaplin’s career as a filmmaker.  I thought that he did even better with his movie The Great Dictator.  He did get some help though from pervious talkies as I couldn’t help but notice similarities to earlier movies like Intolerance in the way he had huge crowds march the city.  Chaplin also includes everything that made him successful in silent films in The Great Dictator with his chase scene where his is running from the German Officers since he kept erasing the word Jew on his barber shop.  I loved The Great Dictator and Charlie Chaplin and I do wish that he made more talkies since he did such an amazing job with his first one.  The Great Dictator will always be remembered as an American classic and gave the world the first comedic parody of the Nazi regime.