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The Great Dictator Speech - Charlie Chaplin (1940)

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  • #2
    MilesMorales1
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    Got an opinion on this OP?


  • #3
    Martypants1
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    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    Got an opinion on this OP?

    Well for one, I think that's a stupid rule.

    Secondly, it's rather apt given the state of the world, 75 years after this speech and how relevant it still is.


  • #4
    The Backwards Man
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    It''s a repeat


  • #5
    biko
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    Good speech alright


  • #6
    The_Valeyard
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    My religion teacher showed us this speech years ago, back in my school going days. Very powerful speech and yes it is very relevant in today's world.


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  • #7
    ygolometsipe
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    what is the significance that he looks and sounds like Hitler
    but says positive things?


  • #8
    KERSPLAT!
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    Martypants1 wrote: »
    Well for one, I think that's a stupid rule.

    Secondly, it's rather apt given the state of the world, 75 years after this speech and how relevant it still is.

    Mod

    Makes no odds what you think is stupid. Give your own account or opinion to create discussion, which is what this board is for. If you just want people to look at a video there's a perfectly good forum for just that, I can move the thread if you wish?


  • #9
    The_Valeyard
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    ygolometsipe wrote: »
    what is the significance that he looks and sounds like Hitler
    but says positive things?

    It's actually a great film. Very funny parody of fascism and dictators


  • #10
    Gringo180
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    Sorry for digging up an old thread but just came across this speech. Amazing altogether especially with all the greed and war in todays world.


  • #11
    Strabanimal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭Strabanimal


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXh3Ob_zDhs


    Better version imo


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  • #12
    the purple tin
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    Wasn't that the film that put Joe McCarthy on his trail?


  • #13
    WhiteMemento9
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    14 year old girl in 1944 wrote:
    Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out new houses for reconstruction? Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny available for medical science, artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy

    I don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have re- belled long ago! There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill.

    And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start allover
    .


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