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Charlie Chaplin --> The Great Dictator |
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Released on: 2003-07-01
Rating: G (General Audience)
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Formats: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Original
recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC
Original language: English, French
Subtitled in: English, French, Korean, Portuguese,
Spanish, Thai
Dubbed in: Spanish
Number of discs: 1
Running time: 120 minutes
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Editorial ReviewsSince Adolf
Hitler had the audacity to borrow his mustache from
the most famous celebrity in the world--Charlie
Chaplin--it meant Hitler was fair game for Chaplin's
comedy. (Strangely, the two men were born within four
days of each other.) The Great Dictator, conceived in
the late thirties but not released until 1940, when
Hitler's war was raging across Europe, is the film
that skewered the tyrant. Chaplin plays both Adenoid
Hynkel, the power-mad ruler of Tomania, and a humble
Jewish barber suffering under the dictator's rule.
Paulette Goddard, Chaplin's wife at the time, plays
the barber's beloved; and the rotund comedian Jack
Oakie turns in a weirdly accurate burlesque of
Mussolini, as a bellowing fellow dictator named
Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria. Chaplin
himself hits one of his highest moments in the amazing
sequence where he performs a dance of love with a
large inflated globe of the world. Never has the
hunger for world domination been more rhapsodically
expressed. The slapstick is swift and sharp, but it
was not enough for Chaplin. He ends the film with the
barber's six-minute speech calling for peace and
prophesying a hopeful future for troubled mankind.
Some critics have always felt the monologue was out of
place, but the lyricism and sheer humanity of it are
still stirring. This was the last appearance of
Chaplin's Little Tramp character, and not
coincidentally it was his first all-talking picture.
--Robert Horton
DVD features
Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft's
absorbing documentary, "The Tramp and the Dictator,"
backgrounds Chaplin and Hitler (who were born a few
days apart) and gives a detailed account of The Great
Dictator's production. Twenty-five minutes of color
footage, shot by Chaplin's brother Sydney on the set,
provides a fascinating look behind the scenes.
--Robert Horton
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I'm sorry, but I don't
want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't
want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help
everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like
that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not
by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and
despise one another. In this world there is room for
everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide
for everyone. The way of life can be free and
beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has
poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with
hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves
in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in
want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our
cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and
feel too little. More than machinery, we need
humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and
gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be
violent and all will be lost. The airplane and the
radio have brought us closer together. The very nature
of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men;
cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of
us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions
throughout the world, millions of despairing men,
women, and little children, victims of a system that
makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To
those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The
misery that is now upon us is but the passing of
greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human
progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators
die, and the power they took from the people will
return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty
will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to
brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment
your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and
what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like
cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give
yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with
machine minds and machine hearts! You are not
machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have
the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate!
Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written
that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor
a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the
people, have the power, the power to create machines,
the power to create happiness! You, the people, have
the power to make this life free and beautiful, to
make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name
of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite.
Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will
give men a chance to work, that will give youth a
future and old age a security. By the promise of these
things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They
do not fulfill that promise. They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people.
Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight
to free the world! To do away with national barriers!
To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let
us fight for a world of reason, a world where science
and progress will lead to all men's happiness.
Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up
Hannah! The clouds are lifting! The sun is breaking
through! We are coming out of the darkness into the
light! We are coming into a new world; a kindlier
world, where men will rise above their hate, their
greed, and brutality. Look up, Hannah! The soul of man
has been given wings and at last he is beginning to
fly. He is flying into the rainbow! Into the light of
hope, into the future! The glorious future, that
belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up,
Hannah. Look up!
Mr. Jaeckel: Hannah,
did you hear that?
Hannah: Listen...
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Commander Shutz: How's the gas?
A Jewish barber: Terrible, it kept me awake all night.
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Commander Shutz: Strange, and I thought you were an
Aryan.
A Jewish barber: No. I'm a vegetarian
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International press reporter: The Phooey has just
referred to the Jewish people.
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Field Marshal Herring: We've just discovered the most
wonderful, the most marvelous poisinous gas. It will
kill everybody.
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Commander Shutz: Heil Hynk... Oh what am I saying?
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Adenoid Hynkel: How wonderful! Tomania, a nation of
blue-eyed blondes.
Garbitsch: Why not a blonde Europe, Asia, America?
Adenoid Hynkel: Blonde world...
Garbitsch: And a brunette dictator.
Adenoid Hynkel: Dictator of the world!
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Garbitsch: "Corona veniat electus." Victory shall come
to the worthy. Today, democracy, liberty, and equality
are words to fool the people. No nation can progress
with such ideas. They stand in the way of action.
Therefore, we frankly abolish them. In the future,
each man will serve the interest of the State with
absolute obedience. Let him who refuses beware! The
rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews
and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore
enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true
Aryans to hate and despise them. Henceforth this
nation is annexed to the Tomanian Empire, and the
people of this nation will obey the laws bestowed upon
us by our great leader, the Dictator of Tomania, the
conqueror of Osterlich, the future Emperor of the
World!
Commander Shutz: You speak.
A Jewish Barber: I can't.
Commander Shutz: You must. It's our only hope.
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Adenoid Hynkel: Schultz,
why have you forsaken me
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Commander Shutz: [plane
is upside down] We're upside down!
A Jewish Barber: I know it.
Commander Shutz: Give me that stick!
A Jewish Barber: Impossible.
Commander Shutz: [engine dies] Oh, there it goes.
We're out of gas. Well, this is it then.
[pulls out cigarette pack]
Commander Shutz: Cigarette?
A Jewish Barber: Not now.
Commander Shutz: Then I shant need this anymore.
[tosses cigarette pack]
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