Thursday, March 11, 2010
Chaplin - The Great Dictator (1940) - Hynkel's speech
With The Great Dictator, Chaplin used sound to add to his satirical portrayal of Adolf Hitler as the petty tyrant Adenoid Hynkel. Very broad comedy, hilarious stuff - and it got him to trouble years later when members of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee determined that he had been "prematurely hostile" to fascism and the Nazis.
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