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Charlie Chaplin’s legendary peace speech
After Charlie Chaplin learned about the terrible atrocities of the Nazis, from the Holocaust, the persecution and killing of minorities, the destruction of the political enemy, he asked for his film “The Great Dictator”. He was not appropriate to the ugly face of the terror’s regime.
More than 80 years after the theatrical release on October 15, 1940, this gloriosis, snappy yet deeply humanistic comedy is still a radiant example of an art that, as it were, tears the gateway to truth and does not rise above the people who have been seduced. Instead, the funds of the satire and the disclosure of the absurd are given their hand.
A Jewish hairdresser is accidentally becoming a guide
The story of “The Great Dictator” is known to everyone who has seen more than a black and white film in life: Dictator Anton Hynkel is the leader of Tomania and prepares the invasion of the neighboring country Osterlitsch behind the back of the ruler of Bacteria (petrolo napoloni). However, he secretly thinks about mastering the world.
A Jewish hairdresser, who happens to look like a leader Hynkel, is confused after a rejected attempt at assassination and the escape from a concentration camp with Hynkel, who is on duck hunting for distraction due to the planned attack on the neighboring country. The guide comes to the bunker and the unspecified hairdresser, actually without wanting to do it, but then with all the courage of the little man, in front of thousands of cheering people and millions of the “people’s recipients”, what he thinks about the world in which he lives.
An appeal to charity and the power of the community to defend itself against hatred and fear. A big speech at the end of a necessary cinema teaching – perhaps the largest ever seen in a film. Rolling Stone lists her again in the wording here because she proves her sincerity and timelessness in times of change and uncertainty.
Charlie Chaplin’s legendary peace speech
“I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be a ruler of the world, because I don’t like that.
I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone, but help everyone wherever I can. The Jews, the pagans, the colored, the white.Everyone should help the other, only in this way we improve the world. We should participate in the happiness of the other and not loathe each other. Hate and contempt never bring us closer. In this world there is enough for everyone, and Mother Earth is rich enough to fill up with each of us.
Life can be so gratifying and wonderful. We just have to learn to live again.The greed spilled the good in humans and resentment poisoned the souls and led us to spoil and blood debt in the parade step. We have developed the speed but we have stopped inside. We let machines work for ourselves and they also think for us.
The cleverness made us haughty, and our knowledge cold and hard. We speak too much and feel too little. But first comes humanity and then the machines. Tolerance and kindness comes with cleverness and knowledge. Without humanity and charity, our existence is not worth living.
Aeroplane and radio brought us closer to each other. These inventions have beaten a bridge from person to person. They require an all -encompassing fraternity so that we all become one. Millions of people in the world can hear my voice at the moment. Millions of desperate people, victims of a system that has made itself the task of torturing innocent people and laying in chains.
I call everyone who listens to me now: you shouldn’t despair! The bitter suffering that has come over us is also transient. The men who today do humanity will not always be there. Their cruelty dies with them, and also their hatred. The freedom that you have taken away will be given back to you.
Even if it costs blood and tears, no victim is too big for freedom. “”