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The Great Dictator (1940)
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5/11:
Damn...Charlie the Idiot was at it again: making more junk films.
The Great Dictator is one of them which is done in bad taste. John Waters fully knew what he was doing when he did
Pink Flamingos and didn't have to care about public reaction. But this one was created actually for the mainstream.
Charlie Chaplin had done a great job of insulting the Jewish population. I can imagine after surviving
the Holocaust, the they grabbed some beers and laughed uproariously at The Great Dictator. Of course, Charlie said
he made the film to create awareness. Well, it didn't do anything for world peace or whatever the hell it was he
was trying to accomplish. So...an epic fail!
Finally, I wanted to know what Hitler thought of it, but sadly, his reaction was never recorded. Perhaps Hitler
secretly wished Charlie Chaplin was put in death camp, so he could repeatedly watch videos of him being tortured.
The weak, corny speech at the end left my head spinning. I always knew Charlie Chaplin had the mind of a
5-year-old child. The only part that worked for me was when he played with the beach ball that was included
in the trailer which initially suckered me into seeing the film.
All in all, I can't tell who's worse: Charlie Chaplin or Adolf Hitler.