I think this even applies today..

[FUKUMAN]

 

[tboy]

that's a pretty powerful speech...surprised some politician hasn't "borrowed" it yet......

There's a lot of truth there......

 

[Macho Man]

Good post fukuman.

Man I love your handle name :wink:

 

[a 1 player]

It is powerful, but it has serious socialist undertones to it.

 

[tboy]

It is powerful, but it has serious socialist undertones to it.

Care to expand on that? I saw and heard mostly democratic overtones......

None the less, our society today has serious socialist undertones hence why I think it is an amazing piece of writing/acting etc.....

I think it does highlight one major issue we have on this planet via the images attached to the speech: while it suggests the soldiers fight for what's right and good, what IS right and good for everyone? Is islam right and good for everyone? Is our society right and good for everyone? Is buddism right and good for everyone? Is socialism right and good for everyone?

 

[Art Mann]

The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator

This is Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin at his best.

The Great Dictator was Chaplin's first talkie. Everybody else in Hollywood got on that band wagon as soon as they could, but Chaplin kept on cranking out silent films for another decade. Like all his films, he wrote this movie, he starred in it, he produced it and he directed it. So this is pure Chaplin you're hearing here, which the world was hearing at that time.

And he's satirizing Adolph Hitler.

Powerful, indeed.

The kicker?

The Great Dictator was released in 1940. The U.S. was still at peace with Germany. This was the first Hollywood film to tackle America's head-in-the-sand isolationist policy.

So I'm not hearing "serious socialist undertones."

What I'm hearing is a passionate condemnation of Hitler, a condemnation of fascism, a condemnation of anti-semitism and a condemnation of the Nazi war machine.

 

[Teach]

This is Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin at his best.

The Great Dictator was Chaplin's first talkie. Everybody else in Hollywood got on that band wagon as soon as they could, but Chaplin kept on cranking out silent films for another decade. Like all his films, he wrote this movie, he starred in it, he produced it and he directed it. So this is pure Chaplin you're hearing here, which the world was hearing at that time.

And he's satirizing Adolph Hitler.

Powerful, indeed.

The kicker?

The Great Dictator was released in 1940. The U.S. was still at peace with Germany. This was the first Hollywood film to tackle America's head-in-the-sand isolationist policy.

So I'm not hearing "serious socialist undertones."

What I'm hearing is a passionate condemnation of Hitler, a condemnation of fascism, a condemnation of anti-semitism and a condemnation of the Nazi war machine.

Wow, thanks for the intel.

 

[a 1 player]

I stand corrected. I must have been hearing things that weren't there the first time around. It is indeed a great speech, just when I hear too much about 'equality' and such sometimes I get my back up without taking the words in context.

 

[Auggie]

I stand corrected. I must have been hearing things that weren't there the first time around. It is indeed a great speech, just when I hear too much about 'equality' and such sometimes I get my back up without taking the words in context.

I bet the words "sharing" and "brotherhood" get you worked up as well. :spiteful:
Does it rankle you that people can borrow books from the library for free? :wink:

 

[a 1 player]

I bet the words "sharing" and "brotherhood" get you worked up as well. :spiteful:
Does it rankle you that people can borrow books from the library for free? :wink:

lol.

No, neither of those bother me, and if I had to pay for the library I'd have to take a second mortgage out on my house.