Extended Reading
  • Deanna 2022-04-22 07:01:04

    Mr. Chaplin's Highest Achievement

    9 points: From a cinematic point of view, there is something missing after the last speech that doesn't give what happened after that. But in the historical sense, this is the highest humanistic achievement of Mr. Chaplin as an artist in his life, and it must surpass the film and be higher than the...

  • Jabari 2022-03-21 09:01:23

    "The Great Dictator" - a man's cry in the darkest hour

    The weekly movie viewing activities are one of the few moments that I am looking forward to and relaxed. I was no longer ready to go on Wednesday. There are a lot of things to do. But thinking that things will always be done, still want to see or want to see, so I went.

    The film tells the ironic...

  • Roxane 2022-03-23 09:01:24

    Chaplin was a unique genius. Because of "amnesia", he keeps falling into the same action whirlpool, upside down, scary and funny. Hynkel speaks so well that delirium, the barber, our silent master, is learning to speak.

  • Hillary 2022-03-26 09:01:03

    The classic speech that all wars are made for "the highest ideals", modern remix version, https://soundcloud.com/theodora-gherdan/stark-d-souljahs-original-mix

The Great Dictator quotes

  • Adenoid Hynkel: [in the middle of a speech in which he rants in "German"] Phooey!

  • Adenoid Hynkel: Garbitsch, what's the meaning of this? These appropriations? Twenty-five million for prison camps when we need every penny for the manufacturing of ammunition's?

    Garbitsch: We've had to make a few arrests.

    Adenoid Hynkel: A few? How many?

    Garbitsch: Nothing astronomical. Five or ten thousand.

    Adenoid Hynkel: Oh.

    Garbitsch: A day.

    Adenoid Hynkel: A day?

    Garbitsch: Just a few dissenters, that's all.