3) Characters and their transformation

The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator is a satiric comedy realised by Charlie Chaplin in 1941. This movie is a virulent critic against the Third Reich and particulary the main leaders Hitler, Goebbels and Goring. 

This movie is the greatest success of Charlie Chaplin in spite of his prohibition in many Europen countries such as France up to 1945 and also in Germany. 

This movie was saw by a specific German ; Adolf Hitler who saw this film two times. It's possible that  Hitler laughed, I know that it's very strange and contracdictory but he had a great sense of Humor.It's very contradictory because this movie is opposed in all themes at Hitler and more generally at the Nazis.

Charlie Spencer Chaplin Junior was born on 16 April 1889 and he died on 25 December 1980. He is very famous for his comedian talent and his engaged comedies such as Modern Times (1936) or even The Kid (1921). Charlie Chaplin is certainly one of the most famous comedian of the XXth century.

He was born the same year, the same month and the same week that Hitler. It's one of the reasons for his intyerest for Hitler.

Chaplin was also revolted by the Hitler's anti-Semitism. The legend said that Chaplin was himself Jew but he refused to confirm or refute this information.

During the First World War, an anonymous private, (Chaplin) fighting in the army of Tomania, effects the valiant rescue of an officer named Schultz, but suffers loss of memory when the plane in which they are flying crashes into a tree. The little soldier is sent to a hospital where he remains for the next 20 years, unaware of the changes. He doesn't know, for instance, that Hynkel (also played by Chaplin) has become Dictator of Tomania, and is persecuting the jews.

I love this film for many reasons.

First, this film is an excellent comedy which links perfectly the tragic and the comic. This movie links perfecly the tragic with Hynkel's racist speeches and the comic with the debilty, the nonsense of the little soldier.

Secdondly, there are many scenes where it's impossible to watch an other things. Even, there are many scenes which marked the cinema such as the famous Globe Scene when Hynkel dances with the ''World''.

Thirdly, it's a perfect movie, such as the music, the scenery the jews ghetto and the screenplay which is excellent and in a perfect adequacy with the action.

Finally, I think that it's a perfect movie realised by an excellent film director Chaplin. Inddead it's an excellent movie which allows to discover the Second World War with an other point of view.