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Last night on Arte (a Franco-German TV Network), I watched a Charlie Chaplin's famous movie: Modern Times. Next week, another movie is scheduled: The Great Dictator.Modern Times (1936): a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression. The movie is considered "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress in 1989 and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.The Great Dictator (1940): the only major film of its period to satirize Nazism and Adolf Hitler while the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. This movie is considered as a condemnation of Hitler, fascism, antisemitism and the Nazis.During the era of McCarthyism, exploiting the fear of Communism, Chaplin was accused of "un-American activities" as a suspected communist and J. Edgar Hoover instructed the FBI to keep extensive secret files on him and tried to end his United States residency. Eventually revoking Chaplin's re-entry permit in 1952.I wonder if such events might happen again today ?
Last night on Arte (a Franco-German TV Network), I watched a Charlie Chaplin's famous movie: Modern Times. Next week, another movie is scheduled: The Great Dictator.Modern Times (1936): a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression. The movie is considered "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress in 1989 and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.The Great Dictator (1940): the only major film of its period to satirize Nazism and Adolf Hitler while the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. This movie is considered as a condemnation of Hitler, fascism, antisemitism and the Nazis.During the era of McCarthyism, exploiting the fear of Communism, Chaplin was accused of "un-American activities" as a suspected communist and J. Edgar Hoover instructed the FBI to keep extensive secret files on him and tried to end his United States residency. Eventually revoking Chaplin's re-entry permit in 1952.I wonder if such events might happen again today ?
Which events the satire or the witch hunting?
Just a correction. The Great Dictator came on Sunday, the 20th. I had to check our TV Guide because I remembered arguing with my wife because I wanted to watch it. I cant remember what we watched instead, I read The Social Contract instead of watching TV after I lost the argument.As to the satire, that has already started appearing, don't forget the film Death of a President from a few years ago. The witch hunting is called political correctness. If you don't think that is true, ask Rush Limbaugh. He didn't get in on buying part of the St Louis Rams because of his supposed racist comments years ago. That being said, the witch hunts go on on both sides of the political aisle, we just don't burn people at the stake anymore..
The Great Dictator (1940): the only major film of its period to satirize Nazism and Adolf Hitler while the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. This movie is considered as a condemnation of Hitler, fascism, antisemitism and the Nazis.
You know, I think I've seen this film before....it's kind of a satire until the end where Charlie Chaplin gives that monologue at the end which is more serious in nature.
