Analyzing The Film 'The Great Dictator' By Charlie Chaplin

Often, imitations of movies are based on what is happening at the time, for instance the film, “The Great Dictator,” that was created in the year 1940 by Charlie Chaplin. In the year 1940 there was a person named Adolf Hitler and he wanted to rule the world. Adolf Hitler was anti-semitism and this film was to basically satirize Adolf Hitler and to denounce the Nazi party. In the film, “The Great Dictator,” Adenoid Hynkel represented Adolf Hitler. Charlie Chaplin directed, produced, starred in, and wrote, “The Great Dictator.”. Charlie Chaplin played two roles in this film. He played the role of the clumsy, amnesic Jewish Barber and the powerful, fascist dictator, Adenoid Hynkel. “The Great Dictator” was a drama and a comedy film. In the beginning of the movie the Jewish Barber offers to help a pilot named Schultz because Schultz wasn’t feeling well, so the inexperienced Jewish Barber is driving the pilot and they end up crashing.
While, the Jewish Barber is in the hospital the dictator, Adenoid Hynkel, turned the country against the Jews. The Jewish Barber later on wakes up from his coma and he is released from the hospital and reopens his barber shop. Near the end of the movie Hynkel and the Jewish Barber get mixed up because of their indistinguishable looks. Hynkel must deliver a crucial speech to his country. However, since Hynkel and the Jewish Barber were mixed up because they had a similar appearance, the person that delivered the speech was the Jewish Barber not Hynkel. So, during the speech that the Jewish Barber delivered he talked good about the Jews and how he wanted to help everyone, including the Jews, something that Hynkel would never do especially for the fact that he hated Jews and always talked bad about