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scarp · 4760 days ago · link · · parent · post: Charlie Chaplin - Famous speech (Adolf Hitler's style) - YouTube
Excellent and inspiring speech, but I don't understand the context -- why is he dressed as Hitler? Is it meant to be a parody of an alternate reality that could have been, along the lines of something like this?: http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-commemorates-911-by-toas...
user-inactivated · 4759 days ago · link ·
"The Great Dictator" is the story of a jewish version of Chaplin's character "Charlot" (hence the mustache, although it has been made tinier in this movie) who somehow gets mistaken for his absolute opposite, Hitler himself (film was shot in 1942, right, when most of the population didn't know about the Shoah, most symbols and names like Hitler, Mussolini were changed, probably to make everyone going to the cinema at that time to watch information clear that it was not the reality). When the character has to improvise a speech as Hitler, that's quite a climax in this movie...
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thenewgreen · 4760 days ago · link ·
btw: It's definitely meant as a parody of actual events. I think it's also meant to show that tyrants come in all forms. That Onion article is hilarious!
-If only.
thenewgreen · 4760 days ago · link ·
Great question. As I recall, he's actually a jewish guy that somehow gets mistaken for Hitler and has to pretend he is.