Charlie Chaplin's 1940 Film The Great Dictator
The film also depicts the victims of war as the viewer witnesses drafted civilians fighting in place of dead German soldiers and are introduced to the perspective of children fighting under the Hitler’s Youth regime. There is a scene that truly captures the victims of war element as a father with only one arm goes searching for his son and walks upon some kids dressed in the Nazi gear preparing to the Russian invasion. The father sees his son with bazooka in hand and demands that his son comes with him and return home. The son looks at his father and tells hims to shut up and leave. His father makes a speech telling them that there is no use in fighting anymore and that if they stay they will killed. He looks around and sees that no one in
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The other film that I decided to watch and analyze its anti-war message was Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 film The Great Dictator. This film proceeds Downfall by 65 years, but embodies a message and warning that foreshadows the actual reality of what Hitler and the Nazi Regime brutally accomplished. At the time of the film’s released the United States was still formally at peace with Hitler and Nazi Germany, but Chaplin seems to call upon not only the neutral Americans but the rest of the world to resist Hitler’s depredation and reject his and the Nazi followers hatred. Unlike the movie Downfall, The Great Dictator is a political satire comedy-drama that parodies the likeness of Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini, but still hits on issues such as fascism, the Nazis, and antisemitism. Chaplin masterfully creates a unique parallel between the two characters he portrays on film with one being a poor jewish barber and the other being the fascist dictator Adenoid Hynkel. A scene that creates an existential meaning is where Adenoid Hynkel dances with an enormous globe and eventually makes it burst. I believe this is a message delivered
The other film that I decided to watch and analyze its anti-war message was Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 film The Great Dictator. This film proceeds Downfall by 65 years, but embodies a message and warning that foreshadows the actual reality of what Hitler and the Nazi Regime brutally accomplished. At the time of the film’s released the United States was still formally at peace with Hitler and Nazi Germany, but Chaplin seems to call upon not only the neutral Americans but the rest of the world to resist Hitler’s depredation and reject his and the Nazi followers hatred. Unlike the movie Downfall, The Great Dictator is a political satire comedy-drama that parodies the likeness of Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini, but still hits on issues such as fascism, the Nazis, and antisemitism. Chaplin masterfully creates a unique parallel between the two characters he portrays on film with one being a poor jewish barber and the other being the fascist dictator Adenoid Hynkel. A scene that creates an existential meaning is where Adenoid Hynkel dances with an enormous globe and eventually makes it burst. I believe this is a message delivered