The revolution on film 

The climactic monologue at the end of Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 black comedy satire The Great Dictator still holds incredible relevance. Surrounded by nearly his entire country, Chaplin’s character, Schultz, a barber mistaken for the dictator Hynkel, also played by Chaplin (à la Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor), uses the speech as an opportunity to […]
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