Comedy · Military and Paramilitary · Nazism · Satire · War
The Great Dictator: Stink, Sacrifice, and Private Power in Hynkel’s Speech
Chaplin is not merely parodying how a dictator sounds. He is anatomizing how fascism recruits, extracts, degrades, appropriates, scapegoats, and lies. * * * Charlie Chaplin’s opening Hynkel speech in[…]
