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This is the climax to the 1940 Charlie Chaplin film "The Great Dictator". While not completely applicable to anything today, I still find it very moving.
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Ultima770(Thursday 8th of January 2009 02:23:21 PM)
I'm in a speech and debate club (We're really small), I presented this to the others. Yes I said Charlie Chaplin made it and they loved it.
boskinator(Thursday 8th of January 2009 08:57:14 AM)
This film was a monumental act of courage and defiance, considering the context:
From wiki:
Chaplin's first dialogue picture, The Great Dictator (1940), was an act of defiance against German dictator Adolf Hitler and Nazism, filmed and released in the United States one year before the U.S. abandoned its policy of isolationism to enter World War II. Chaplin played the role of a Hitler-like dictator "Adenoid Hynkel", Dictator of Tomainia, clearly modeled on Hitler.
banemaler(Wednesday 7th of January 2009 09:17:26 PM)
Are you kidding! This speech still has relevance more than ever. This is the speech for all time.
DevaRupa(Wednesday 7th of January 2009 05:50:25 AM)
Little Sweetheart!
nineelvendude(Tuesday 6th of January 2009 11:29:08 PM)
i hate to argue but it's completely applicable to 2009
MORE SO
aamzing how pertinenet his words are still today in 2009
seth1234543(Sunday 4th of January 2009 02:37:23 PM)
also if someone said that in a place like that it would be off with his head in five seconds.
seth1234543(Sunday 4th of January 2009 02:34:11 PM)
I saw this whole movie. I'm doin a report on Chplin atm, he's awesome, though everyone thought he was commie because of it. he was kicked out of the country for it actually.
So the muslims that are taking over Europe should just be appeased?
FireLegion(Sunday 4th of January 2009 10:26:35 AM)
Whilst a lot can be gathered from this speech, Chaplin fails to grasp that human misery is a result of a vast number of social and economic factors which stretch far beyond just 'kindness'.
