The Great Dictator : Charlie Chaplin

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The most splendid movie scene I have seen till now is Hynkel as a satire of Hitler playing with the globe. Even no modern visual compositions and special effects have suppressed it. Not Lukas, Cameron, Nolan and not even Marvel have done such a composition with magnetic and meaningful depth in a single sequence. It's just out of this world.

 

If Modern Times is about the clash between communist and capitalist economic principles, then The Great Dictator would evidently be the conflicts between dictatorial and democratic applications. Overall, it's about humans' wrecked conditions and perilous consequences in each pair of systems.

 

Chaplin is (not was for me now) one of the foretellers in cinematic art form, who could sense the truth from its core and could bring out the real with aesthetic perfection.

 

The Great Dictator [1940] is a part-utopian [Tomainia] and part-parody of Nazism and the misery of minorities in the hand of absolute power. When politics impede religious autonomy, racial diversity and human liberty, nothing can sustain its inherent dignity in the world. Just look all over the continents, the power hands are demanding with their own false consciousness about the welfare of humanity.

 

It is Chaplin’s first sound feature film and also features Charlie without the face of Tramp for the first time. I was a little bit anxious about how it would feel to hear a spoken Chaplin after getting used to the silent Tramp. But I was wrong to be too worried as Charlie was. Charlie in another face is as funny and splendid as in Tramp's face.

 

It is a wonder for me that The Great Dictator [1940] might be the first feature film whose narrative had covered World War I & II in a single cinema. Maybe there will be others but this one is the first one I have ever seen.

 

Is it the first feature in which an actor [Charlie Chaplin] has played the protagonist [Jewish barber] and the antagonist [Adenoid Hynkel, the dictator] simultaneously.

 

 

The Great Dictator [1940]

Charlie Chaplin

English, USA.


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