Speech In Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator

Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” was his first ever film featuring him speaking and was his most successful with it being a box-office hit ranking in five million dollars.. The effort put into the film was entirely based on Chaplin’s own limitations, with him owning the production studio and funding the film himself. The film was a culmination of Chaplin’s own ideological and political perspectives. The controversy created from the movie in its time is not surprising considering it parodies an infamous dictator, Adolf Hitler, that was persecuting large amounts of people. However, this isn’t only factor that makes this film as iconic, but it’s also the memorable speech that Chaplin makes towards the ending. Heralded as one of the greatest speeches of all time, the monologue …show more content…
This relevance is not only supported by the speech’s long lasting themes of unity, but also with the strong connection it establishes with the viewer. The delivery of this speech emphasizes its message and adds to the irony of how it was in a movie that parodied Hitler. The speech also becomes the peak of a crescendo when every movie done in Chaplin’s career was a silent film until this one. When the world was able hear this brilliant filmmaker for the first time, they were presented with an unforgettable address to motivate them to move away from its own disconnection. With this motivation, the speech was able to move away from being a threnody and into an inspiring oration that many people can look back on. “The Great Dictator”’s monologue nicely details how the aspects of improved communication and democracy has been wrongly used or not used enough. Reflecting on the elaborate effect the film had on the world during World War II lets the effort that went into it become apparent. Its delivery and articulate meaning leaves it as one of the most influencing speeches in recent