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In Reply to: Tokyo rose.... posted by Patrick UITZ on February 13, 2002 at 00:24:34:
While Chaplin was scarcely a "common artist"; and I'm sure your Post isn't implying he was; he was earning US$5,000 a week when a new Ford Coupe cost US$249.00 FOB Dearborn; the highest paid entertainer of his age, and probably the first person to truly be an instantly identifiable International personality. All the more reason why "Dictator" was such a work of courage; he was such a universally recognisable person, and being wildly famous, universally adored (except by the US Immigration Dept.) and wealthy, you'd think he would've just sat back comfortably and not bothered with something like politics and World Order. I wonder if "Herr Hitler" ever saw this film? For all it's comedy, there is no ambivalence in "Dictator"; it is profoundly anti-Nazi, anti=Hitler and Anti-totalitarian. I will take back my pronouncement of it being dated; this film still has important things to say, our World still has the same issues,and there is always a "Hynkle" waiting in the wings. Let's hope there is another Chaplin about to satirise the next "Great Dictator".
Eric
Tokyo (Rose!)
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