A philosophy I very much live my life by.
Yeah, too bad he was a Nazi.
was he? shit
I’m assuming by “he was a Nazi” you meant he played a PARODY of Hitler in a MOVIE and in that same movie he also plays a barber who disguises himself as said Hitler parody and delivers one of the greatest anti-fascist speeches of all time.
It’s okay. It’s a easy mistake to make.
seriously jesus christ first of all how do you people not know your history I mean I get it, bc education in this country is seriously lacking, but still do you believe everything you read?? “yeah too bad he was a nazi” oh well someone said it on the internet it must be true. hmm if only there was some way to fact check that like a search engine that would provide sources. not only is that accusation way off base but it degrade the vigilante work he did to satirize hitler, which was a major contribution to film history. I mean heres info from wikipedia but like you can find other sources…
“In the 1940s, Chaplin began to express his political beliefs. Deeply disturbed by the surge of militaristic nationalism in 1930s world politics, Chaplin found that he could not keep these issues out of his work. Parallels between his character, the tramp, and Adolf Hitler had been widely noted. It was this physical resemblance that supplied the plot for Chaplin’s next film, The Great Dictator, which directly satirised Hitler and attacked fascism.
Chaplin spent two years developing the script, and began filming in September 1939 – six days after Britain declared war on Germany. (aka wayyyyy before America decided not to be isolationist and actually help the Allies) He had submitted to using spoken dialogue, partly out of acceptance that he had no other choice, but also because he recognised it as a better method for delivering a political message. Making a comedy about Hitler was seen as highly controversial, but Chaplin’s financial independence allowed him to take the risk. ‘I was determined to go ahead,” he later wrote, “for Hitler must be laughed at.’
The Great Dictator spent a year in production, and was released in October 1940. The film generated a vast amount of publicity, with a critic for The New York Times calling it ‘the most eagerly awaited picture of the year’, and it was one of the biggest money-makers of the era. The ending was unpopular, however, and generated controversy. Chaplin concluded the film with a five-minute speech in which he abandoned his character, looked directly into the camera, and pleaded against war and fascism. Charles J. Maland has identified this overt preaching as triggering a decline in Chaplin’s popularity, and writes, ‘Henceforth, no movie fan would ever be able to separate the dimension of politics from [his] star image’. The Great Dictator received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor.”
in conclusion he was basically a badass who risked his public image to say that Hitler sucked
I’d like to imagine that the person who said, “Too bad he was a Nazi” had him confused with actual, literal Hitler just because of the moustache.
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