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In Reply to: Can film watching turn out to be duty ? Jean Renoir´s.... posted by patrickU on September 30, 2003 at 04:40:06:
I presume you're referring to "The Great Dictator". I am just beginning to explore Mr. Chaplin's flims--this was my first one--and I must say that as propaganda, it was heartfelt and brave, but as art, it's a mess. To combine physical comedy like the bit in the barber's chair with such harrowing scenes as we see elsewhere in the film is simply too wide a stretch in tone for the whole to emerge as a coherent movie. And that monologue at the end is possibly the most cringe-inducing thing I've ever seen in a film made before 1950.Again, I respect him for striking a blow against tyranny, but I never want to see it again.
djprobed
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- Charles Chaplin - djprobed 09:33:04 09/30/03 (3)
- Re: What else ? - patrickU 10:18:29 09/30/03 (2)
- Re: What else ? - Dmitry 20:41:05 09/30/03 (1)
- This is exactly my point. - djprobed 07:34:14 10/02/03 (0)
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