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The Great Dictator

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The Great Dictator	comment	The Great Dictator is a famous Charlie Chaplin film about a certain European dictator who uses the Jewish people as a scapegoat for his country's problems and tries to ally himself with the republic of Bacteria, since both wish to annex the country in between them. At the same time, a World War I veteran with a case of Easy Amnesia — who happens to be a dead ringer for the dictator — returns to his barbershop in the Jewish ghetto to find out things aren't quite as nice as they used to be...Chaplin planned and shot the film in late 1939 and early 1940, right during early World War II; France, Denmark and Norway were conquered during the filming, which may have influenced the final tone of the film. While Chaplin understood from first-hand accounts how hostile the Third Reich was to Jews, at the time of filming, he was ignorant of Hitler's desire to exterminate them and most of Eastern Europe in the near future (the Hungerplan was devised alongside planning for Operation Barbarossa later that year and the Final Solution in early 1942). After the war, Chaplin expressed some regret about the film, telling interviewers that he might not have made it if he'd known the whole story. That would be an artistic challenge Roberto Benigni would take up 50 years later with the Oscar winning Dramedy, Life Is Beautiful.The Great Dictator was (of course) banned in Nazi Germany, although prints of the film still found their way into occupied Europe.note According to an eyewitness, Adolf Hitler obtained a copy of the film and watched it twice; when Chaplin found this out, he said that he would give anything to know what he thought of it. Britain had announced that they were going to ban the film while the film was in production (so that it wouldn't interfere with the country's appeasement policy with Nazi Germany), but when the film was released, Britain had entered the war against the Nazis, and the film couldn't be brought in fast enough; it ended up providing some badly needed laughs at a time where laughs were in short supply for Britain (and most of Europe).Ironically, for all of the controversy surrounding it, The Great Dictator was not the first American anti-Nazi comedy film — Chaplin was upstaged by The Three Stooges with the short film You Nazty Spy! by nine months. It also wasn't the first anti-Hitler film of any sort — that honor goes to Hitler's Reign of Terror, released all the way back in 1934.note Not many films attacking the Nazi regime were released before America's entry into the war. The Hays Code technically forbade lampoons against public figures or world leaders, and the studios were loathe at any rate to make any statements that might cause Hitler to ban their films in Germany, a lucrative market.The film is also a landmark for Chaplin himself - it was his first all-sound film, released over a decade after the rest of Hollywood transitioned to sound. (In the meantime Chaplin had stubbornly made City Lights and Modern Times as silent films.) And although the barber is explicitly not the Tramp character, he nonetheless has the Tramp's physical appearance - baggy clothes, big shoes, cane, bowler hat and that moustache - and thus this film marks the final time Chaplin would invoke some version of this character on screen.For the Sacha Baron Cohen movie, see The Dictator, which is also a satire.
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The Great Dictator / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Great Dictator / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Obviously, Adenoid Hynkel is Adolf Hitler, Garbitsch is Joseph Goebbels, Herring is Hermann GÃ¶ring/Goering, and Benzino Napaloni is Benito Mussolini. Since then, it has become No Historical Figures Were Harmed.
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The Great Dictator / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Great Dictator / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Compared to Chaplin's other work. Chaplin's prior films were bittersweet romances with slapstick comedy; this one is about a fascist dictator who persecutes Jews and wants to take over the world.
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The Great Dictator / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
The Great Dictator / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: Napaloni expresses his fondness for Hynkel by slapping him hard on the back and nearly shaking his arm off.
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The Great Dictator / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Great Dictator / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Hannah's comment: "Do you know, that Hynkel isn't such a bad fella after all." is followed by Hynkel's hateful radio address and the subsequent pogrom. During their Roof Hopping, Commander Schultz warns the barber to be careful to not break his neck. Cue the barber slipping and falling through a ceiling window onto someone's bed.
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The Great Dictator / int_16e17035	type	Patrick Stewart Speech
The Great Dictator / int_16e17035	comment	Patrick Stewart Speech: The ending, in which the barber (well, really Charlie Chaplin) delivers a passionate speech defending the dignity of the human race and appealing to man's better nature as part of the fight against fascism.
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The Great Dictator / int_171ef47c	type	Not-So-Harmless Villain
The Great Dictator / int_171ef47c	comment	Not-So-Harmless Villain: Hynkel is immature and funny, but he is still a dangerous dictator with the power to ruin the lives of millions of people.
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The Great Dictator / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Great Dictator / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Would you trust a regime that uses the double cross as its symbol?
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The Great Dictator / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Great Dictator / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Hynkel likes playing the piano and does so extremely well.
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The Great Dictator / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
The Great Dictator / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: The famous dance with the globe is essentially a Villain Ballet. There's no singing but there is music, and it functions the same way as this trope, summing up Hynkel's character and ambitions while providing a break from the action.
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The Great Dictator / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
The Great Dictator / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: The closing speech is not delivered by the barber impersonating Hynkel, but by Charles Chaplin speaking directly to an audience that, at the time the film was made, was just entering into World War II. Earlier, Hannah gets a similar speech directly into the camera about how great it would be if Jews were allowed to live in peace.
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The Great Dictator / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Great Dictator / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Lampoons everything from war to anti-Semitism and even rape.
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The Great Dictator / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Great Dictator / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: The barber quotes The Bible (specifically Luke 17:20-21) in his Rousing Speech: "In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written 'the kingdom of God is within man' - not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you, the people!"
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The Great Dictator / int_24cdd048	type	Arcadia
The Great Dictator / int_24cdd048	comment	Arcadia: Osterlich is depicted as a heavenly place out in the country.
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The Great Dictator / int_2634314	type	Gloved Fist of Doom
The Great Dictator / int_2634314	comment	Gloved Fist of Doom: Parodied (sans glove) by Chaplin as Hynkel, who often raises his fist in an intimidating manner when he's trying to look tough during his speech.
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The Great Dictator / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Great Dictator / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: As the Stormtroopers start searching for Schultz, the Barber tries to warn him, but does so in mime, without speaking, and immediately afterwards claims to have "told" him about the danger. This is in reference to the Tramp's silent movie past, where he would only speak through title cards. Later in the movie, Hynkel mistakes Napaloni's moving mouth (as he is eating) for silent speech, and asks what he is saying.
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The Great Dictator / int_27b83210	type	Hufflepuff House
The Great Dictator / int_27b83210	comment	Hufflepuff House: Bacteria, the Italy stand-in that seems to be a Friendly Enemy to Tomania, much like Italy and Mussolini were friendly enemies to Germany and Hitler in the pre-war years (after the war started it was more like Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey with Italy as the Butt-Monkey of the Axis). In this movie Bacteria exists to allow a sequence where Mussolini stand-in "Napaloni" makes a state visit and Hynkel bumbles around trying to impress/intimidate him.
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The Great Dictator / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Great Dictator / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Hynkel is frightened at the prospect of being referred to as a god, despite his global aspirations.
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The Great Dictator / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Great Dictator / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The storm troopers strolling through the streets, vandalizing a fruit shop and throwing tomatoes at Hannah.
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The Great Dictator / int_35fb9016	type	Gratuitous German
The Great Dictator / int_35fb9016	comment	Gratuitous German: Hynkel speaks German gibberish when speaking to the public or when he is angry. It's actually a variety act called "speaking Double Dutch" that Chaplin had learned to do when he performed in music halls and vaudeville, before he got into movies.
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The Great Dictator / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
The Great Dictator / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: In the beginning set in World War I, the Jewish barber puts down the butt of his gun onto the foot of a fellow soldier, who scolds him.
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The Great Dictator / int_38718ea8	type	Beautiful All Along
The Great Dictator / int_38718ea8	comment	Beautiful All Along: Hannah after her makeover, though she never looked ugly to begin with. More like an Unkempt Beauty.
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The Great Dictator / int_38f1a7ed	type	Defector from Decadence
The Great Dictator / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: Commander Schultz abandons Hynkel's regime when he sees the barber fighting the storm troopers.
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The Great Dictator / int_3a6efd9d	type	Unnecessarily Large Interior
The Great Dictator / int_3a6efd9d	comment	Unnecessarily Large Interior: Hynkel's office is gigantic. He intends to use this to his advantage by forcing Napaloni to cross this massive space as psychological intimidation. Napaloni comes in the room from a door right behind Hynkel's desk. This was Truth in Television: Both Hitler and Mussolini had unusually large offices that they used precisely to intimidate audience-seekers.
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The Great Dictator / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
The Great Dictator / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: The dictator plays with his "globe" in a manner similar to a very young child in his office.
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The Great Dictator / int_3ccaf3ac	type	No Swastikas
The Great Dictator / int_3ccaf3ac	comment	No Swastikas: The symbol of Hynkel's regime is the Double Cross.
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The Great Dictator / int_3d85c6bc	type	Black Speech
The Great Dictator / int_3d85c6bc	comment	Black Speech: The pseudo-Germanic gibberish that constitutes all but three words of Hynkel's opening address. It's so difficult to pronounce that Hynkel descends into coughing fits twice during the speech.
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The Great Dictator / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
The Great Dictator / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Hannah never loses her innocence despite her life in the Jewish ghetto.
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The Great Dictator / int_3f7d28cc	type	Puny Parachute
The Great Dictator / int_3f7d28cc	comment	Puny Parachute: One of the wacky inventions demonstrated by Grand Marshall Herring is a hat parachute. It doesn't work.
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The Great Dictator / int_41435fc2	type	Pie in the Face
The Great Dictator / int_41435fc2	comment	Pie in the Face: The Foreign Correspondent who sneaks into Hynkel's palace receives one of these after Garbitsch insists that the Hynkel-Napaloni negotiations are going swimmingly.
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The Great Dictator / int_4280d1fd	type	Spock Speak
The Great Dictator / int_4280d1fd	comment	Spock Speak: Garbitsch speaks with an excessively precise, formal diction.
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The Great Dictator / int_465f6f76	type	Dressed to Oppress
The Great Dictator / int_465f6f76	comment	Dressed to Oppress: Being a satire of the rise of fascism in Europe released nearly a year into World War II, with specific focus on mocking Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, both Adenoid Hynkel and Benzino Napaloni are inevitably dressed in dictatorial outfits mimicking their real-life inspirations. Hynkel dons a military jacket with his double-X emblem on both lapels and black jackboots, and is often seen wearing a Commissar Cap that also bears the emblem. Meanwhile, Napaloni wears a military jacket and a large sash.
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The Great Dictator / int_46ecc454	type	RapeAsComedy
The Great Dictator / int_46ecc454	comment	Rape as Comedy: Hynkel strong-arms a secretary and drags her to a couch. She yells "no, no, no" but eventually gives in. At this moment a phone call interrupts Hynkel and he drops the girl like hot coal.
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The Great Dictator / int_4704d87e	type	The Generalissimo
The Great Dictator / int_4704d87e	comment	The Generalissimo: Hynkel, the militaristic dictator of an evil fascist Central European state.
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The Great Dictator / int_49a11c69	type	Commissar Cap
The Great Dictator / int_49a11c69	comment	Commissar Cap: Chaplin lampoons Adolph Hitler and wears a wonderful Commissar Cap with a XX (the "Double-Cross") logo in place of the swastika.
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The Great Dictator / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
The Great Dictator / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: The opening credits end with a footnote saying: "Any similarities between Chancellor Hynkel and the Jewish Barber are purely co-incidental."
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The Great Dictator / int_4d1b485d	type	Dedication
The Great Dictator / int_4d1b485d	comment	Dedication: The film was dedicated to "The Jews of the world."
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The Great Dictator / int_51923571	type	Spinning Paper
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The Great Dictator / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
The Great Dictator / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: Hynkel, who is obviously unhinged, playing with balloons when he isn't flying into rages or sending people to concentration camps.
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The Great Dictator / int_53833817	type	Rip Van Winkle
The Great Dictator / int_53833817	comment	Rip Van Winkle: The protagonist got amnesia and spent the whole time between WWI and WWII in a mental asylum.
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The Great Dictator / int_53f5ccea	type	Batman in My Basement
The Great Dictator / int_53f5ccea	comment	Batman in My Basement: Defector from Decadence Commander Schultz hides in the basement of a Jewish family.
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The Great Dictator / int_54d5074	type	Speaking Simlish
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The Great Dictator / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
The Great Dictator / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: Hynkel and Garbitsch's ultimate vision for Tomainia
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The Great Dictator / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
The Great Dictator / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: The film has Osterlich, the pacifist country next to Tomainia. It's an obvious parallel to Austria down to the name with a different spelling: Ã–sterreich is the German/Austrian name for Austria.
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The Great Dictator / int_58dd1c53	type	Cobweb of Disuse
The Great Dictator / int_58dd1c53	comment	Cobweb of Disuse: When the barber returns to his shop, the interior is covered in cob web.
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The Great Dictator / int_59204dfb	type	Greeting Gesture Confusion
The Great Dictator / int_59204dfb	comment	Greeting Gesture Confusion: Twice, Hynkel tries to shake hands with Napaloni but his "Heil Hynkel" salute come in between and their hands miss each other several times◊ until they finally figure it out.
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The Great Dictator / int_60cc14ba	type	Ruritania
The Great Dictator / int_60cc14ba	comment	Ruritania: Tomainia, Osterlich and Bacteria, three vaguely Central European countries that are really stand-ins for Germany, Austria, and Italy respectively.
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The Great Dictator / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Schultz has one after rescuing the barber from the storm troopers.
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The Great Dictator / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: While the movie replaces Germany with the fictional Tomainia, on the newsreel you can still see the name Germany printed under the "Armistice" headline. Another newsreel fragment has the line "Stop press bulletins".
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The Great Dictator / int_6406a19c	type	Politicians Kiss Babies
The Great Dictator / int_6406a19c	comment	Politicians Kiss Babies: Played for laughs when Adenoid Hynkel is handed a baby for a promotional photo shoot after a rally, but the baby wets him.
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The Great Dictator / int_669c4caa	type	Produce Pelting
The Great Dictator / int_669c4caa	comment	Produce Pelting: The storm troopers are throwing tomatoes at Hannah in the street.
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The Great Dictator / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The Great Dictator / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: Hynkel gets off a scary cackle before his dance with the globe.
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The Great Dictator / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
The Great Dictator / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: Ur-Example before the world experienced or understood the full extent of Nazi evil. Chaplin even claimed he would not have made the movie had he known the true nature of the Nazi concentration camps.
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The Great Dictator / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
The Great Dictator / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: Most of the villainous characters are too goofy to be scary; but this does not apply to Garbitsch, the Minister of Propaganda. Aside from his name, there is very little that is in any way funny about this character. He almost always acts much more seriously than the other characters, and he constantly encourages Hynkel to persecute the Jews and to act like a treacherous and hateful egomaniac. While the other 'children of the double-cross' can be viewed as parodies, Garbitsch goes above and beyond to earn his name. And he's played by British actor Henry Daniell, who spent his career refining and perfecting a portrayal of quiet, smooth, pure evil.
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The Great Dictator / int_6c7136b7	type	Tactful Translation
The Great Dictator / int_6c7136b7	comment	Tactful Translation: Hynkel's translator does this throughout the dictator's opening speech. It is especially evident after Hynkel's rant about "der Juden."
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The Great Dictator / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Great Dictator / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Garbitsch and Herring, along with the title "Phooey" instead of "Fuehrer".
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The Great Dictator / int_742088d4	type	The Dictatorship
The Great Dictator / int_742088d4	comment	The Dictatorship: Tomania is very obviously one, a European nation ruled by a virulently nationalist party that keeps the Tomanian people under their thumb, shovels out frequent propaganda at home and abroad and is plotting war against their neighbors. Likewise, Bacteria shares all of Tomania's aforementioned traits.
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The Great Dictator / int_77135705	type	Got the Whole World in My Hand
The Great Dictator / int_77135705	comment	Got the Whole World in My Hand: Hynkel dances with an inflatable globe. When he squeezes it too much ... the globe explodes.
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The Great Dictator / int_78f6bb9b	type	Translation: "Yes"
The Great Dictator / int_78f6bb9b	comment	Translation: "Yes": Earlier in the movie, Hynkel is delivering a speech, commented on by an English speaking narrator. Some passages are translated word by word (like 'liberty is abolished'), while others â€” like Hynkel's rambling about the beauty of the Tomanian women â€” are paraphrased with a lot of details. Then, one very long passage of Hynkel screaming, shaking his fists and growling is paraphrased only as: 'His excellency has just referred to the Jewish population'. Another example uses dictation instead of translation â€” Adenoid Hynkel would say a long sentence, and his secretary would transcribe it in a couple keystrokes. Another sentence, and again a couple keystrokes. A single word, and suddenly the secretary is typing something that might be the original manuscript of Order of the Phoenix.
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The Great Dictator / int_7c435220	type	Rushmore Refacement
The Great Dictator / int_7c435220	comment	Rushmore Refacement: The Venus de Milo and Auguste Rodin's The Thinker doing the Nazi Salute.
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The Great Dictator / int_7c9933de	type	Laughably Evil
The Great Dictator / int_7c9933de	comment	Laughably Evil: Adenoid Hynkel is portrayed as infantile and crazy from power.
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The Great Dictator / int_80595ee2	type	Prince and Pauper
The Great Dictator / int_80595ee2	comment	Prince and Pauper: This accidentally happens to Hynkel and the barber, when Hynkel goes missing while fishing and the barber is dressed in a military uniform. Until then no one notices the resemblance between the barber and der Phooey.
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The Great Dictator / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Great Dictator / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Chaplin (and by extension, Hynkel) is clearly having a total blast doing his rousing, macaronic faux-German speech.
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The Great Dictator / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
The Great Dictator / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: An extraordinary one in which Chaplin steps out of character and delivers a Rousing Speech.
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The Great Dictator / int_82b48dc	type	Stupid Jetpack Hitler
The Great Dictator / int_82b48dc	comment	Stupid Jetpack Hitler: Parodied. Herring is very enthusiastic about various inventions that all fail hilariously in ways that kills their inventors. Fuehrer Adenoid Hynkel is less enthusiastic and finally tells him to just stop, please.
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The Great Dictator / int_8470aa73	type	Roman Ã Clef
The Great Dictator / int_8470aa73	comment	Roman Ã Clef: The movie is essentially a thinly veiled, fictionalized version of Germany's Anschluss with Austria and of Kristallnacht, the pre-war German pogrom that preceded The Holocaust.
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The Great Dictator / int_84dbbd8c	type	Foreign-Language Tirade
The Great Dictator / int_84dbbd8c	comment	Foreign-Language Tirade: Hynkel's hate speech takes this form, with an English-speaking interpreter providing running commentary.
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The Great Dictator / int_8573ac0a	type	The Social Darwinist
The Great Dictator / int_8573ac0a	comment	The Social Darwinist: Garbitsch. Right before the barber's famous Rousing Speech that closes the film, Garbitsch gives an evil speech in which he preaches about how might makes right and the strong will conquer the weak.
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The Great Dictator / int_86f2d483	type	Frying Pan of Doom
The Great Dictator / int_86f2d483	comment	All victims of Hannah's Frying Pan of Doom.
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The Great Dictator / int_87629455	type	No Communities Were Harmed
The Great Dictator / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: Tomania and Bacteria are very thinly-veiled pastiches of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy respectively.
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The Great Dictator / int_8be2f0da	type	Bicep-Polishing Gesture
The Great Dictator / int_8be2f0da	comment	Bicep-Polishing Gesture: Hynkel briefly affects this when discussing the strength of the Aryan people.
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The Great Dictator / int_8eb94d2a	type	Oppressed Minority Veteran
The Great Dictator / int_8eb94d2a	comment	Oppressed Minority Veteran: The Barber is a Jewish World War I veteran living in a parody of Nazi Germany.
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The Great Dictator / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Great Dictator / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Hynkel's dance concludes with the globe popping in his hands. Given the speech at the end, it's another part of the theme that civilization cannot survive if men like Hynkel are allowed to pursue their twisted goals.
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The Great Dictator / int_9228e13b	type	Disastrous Demonstration
The Great Dictator / int_9228e13b	comment	Disastrous Demonstration: When the inventions by Hynkel's scientists fail on demonstration. Played for laughs, but not without a jod of Mood Dissonance. The man in the bulletproof uniform receives an Instant Death Bullet and dies on the spot. The man with a parachute in his hat falls from a window to his death. We only see the reactions by Hynkel and Herring.
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The Great Dictator / int_92fa14	type	Our Lawyers Advised This Trope
The Great Dictator / int_92fa14	comment	Our Lawyers Advised This Trope: Parodied - the film begins with the notice: "Any resemblance between Hynkel the dictator and the Jewish barber is purely co-incidental".
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The Great Dictator / int_94b8db78	type	Diseased Name
The Great Dictator / int_94b8db78	comment	Diseased Name: Tomainia (Ptomainia - a deadly food-poisoning) and Bacteria, expies of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Hynkel's given name Adenoid also verges in this direction.
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The Great Dictator / int_986bd638	type	This Is a Work of Fiction
The Great Dictator / int_986bd638	comment	This Is a Work of Fiction: "Any resemblance between Hynkel the dictator and the Jewish barber is purely co-incidental".
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The Great Dictator / int_9ab240e4	type	Rapid-Fire Typing
The Great Dictator / int_9ab240e4	comment	Rapid-Fire Typing: Parodied, albeit on a typewriter. In one scene, the eponymous character dictates a letter to his secretary. He first lets off a long stream of mock-German, which the secretary records in a few keystrokes; he then follows it with a short syllable, which takes an absurdly long time to type.
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The Great Dictator / int_9edfdf1f	type	Studio Audience
The Great Dictator / int_9edfdf1f	comment	Studio Audience: Hynkel can command applause and cause it to cease instantly by waving his hand.
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The Great Dictator / int_a01f88a7	type	General Failure
The Great Dictator / int_a01f88a7	comment	General Failure: Grand Marshall Herring, who keeps bringing worthless experimental weapons for the Phooey to observe.
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The Great Dictator / int_a0797fb3	type	Stunned Silence
The Great Dictator / int_a0797fb3	comment	Stunned Silence: The crowd at Hynkel's speech automatically cheers whenever there's a break in it most of the time; the one time they need to be prompted to cheer is just after his crazed rant about "der Juden".
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The Great Dictator / int_a754fa9a	type	Instant Death Bullet
The Great Dictator / int_a754fa9a	comment	Instant Death Bullet: The scientists who tries to demonstrate his new invention, a bulletproof uniform, dies on the spot when the bullet hits him in the chest.
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The Great Dictator / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
The Great Dictator / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: At the end of the film, the barber mistaken for Hynkel is supposed to give a victory speech. Instead, he gives a speech in which he calls for humanity in general to break free from dictatorships and use science and progress to make the world better.
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The Great Dictator / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Great Dictator / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Hynkel's dance with the inflatable globe is set to the hauntingly beautiful Act 1 Prelude to Wagner's Lohengrin.
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The Great Dictator / int_ace5eb40	type	Clock Tower
The Great Dictator / int_ace5eb40	comment	Clock Tower: There's a scene where Hynkel shows off an ornate clock tower to Napoloni and Napoloni claims that it's inaccurate.
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The Great Dictator / int_b0218885	type	Mickey Mousing
The Great Dictator / int_b0218885	comment	Mickey Mousing: An astonishing scene where the Jewish Barber shaves a customer in perfect time with Brahms' Hungarian Dance #5. Supposedly the intent was to record multiple takes and piece it together in editing; instead Chaplin brought the phonograph to the set, played the music, and nailed the entire routine on the first practice take.
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The Great Dictator / int_b06186c2	type	RoofHopping
The Great Dictator / int_b06186c2	comment	During their Roof Hopping, Commander Schultz warns the barber to be careful to not break his neck. Cue the barber slipping and falling through a ceiling window onto someone's bed.
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The Great Dictator / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
The Great Dictator / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: All victims of Hannah's Frying Pan of Doom. Hynkel, being mistaken for the barber, gets a trooper's baton on his head and sinks down.
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The Great Dictator / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Great Dictator / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Chaplin's closing speech. For a man known for being silent, when Chaplin spoke, he had something to say.
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The Great Dictator / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
The Great Dictator / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: The barber's final speech as Hynkel expresses Chaplin's own views about fascism and militarism.
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The Great Dictator / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Great Dictator / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Dark-haired Hynkel and Garbitsch talk about how brunettes can't be trusted, unlike Aryan blondes.
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The Great Dictator / int_b806516f	type	Chest of Medals
The Great Dictator / int_b806516f	comment	Chest of Medals: Field Marshal Herring is shown with tons of medals â€”- almost enough to match his ego.
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The Great Dictator / int_bd9dd686	type	Hammerspace Parachute
The Great Dictator / int_bd9dd686	comment	The man with a parachute in his hat falls from a window to his death. We only see the reactions by Hynkel and Herring.
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The Great Dictator / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
The Great Dictator / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: The sons and daughters of the Double Cross are clear expies for the Nazi Party.
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The Great Dictator / int_c86a6f38	type	Cannon Fodder
The Great Dictator / int_c86a6f38	comment	Cannon Fodder: Discussed during the final speech.
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The Great Dictator / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Great Dictator / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The main character is a barber whose name is never revealed. This one of several points of similarity between the barber and Chaplin's Little Tramp character, who likewise usually goes nameless in many of his films.
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The Great Dictator / int_ca895242	type	Officer and a Gentleman
The Great Dictator / int_ca895242	comment	Officer and a Gentleman: Commander Schultz is a courtly and well-mannered officer who doesn't fit in with Hynkel and his thugs, and as a consequence is sent to a concentration camp.
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The Great Dictator / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Great Dictator / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Hynkel gets arrested by his own men who are looking for the Jewish barber.
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The Great Dictator / int_d498390f	type	Fruit Cart
The Great Dictator / int_d498390f	comment	Fruit Cart: We see a fruit cart being turned over during the pogrom.
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The Great Dictator / int_d4fbe5c4	type	Delegation Relay
The Great Dictator / int_d4fbe5c4	comment	Delegation Relay: When the huge gun fails to fire properly and the bullet just drops out of the barrel, the general turns to the colonel and says: "Check the bullet". The colonel turns to the captain and gives the same order. The captain gives the order to the lieutenant. The lieutenant delegates to the private (Chaplin). The private turns to his left... and finds out that there's nobody left to delegate to, so he has to do it himself.
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The Great Dictator / int_d51158ee	type	Revised Ending
The Great Dictator / int_d51158ee	comment	Revised Ending: The film originally ended with the soldiers all breaking into a folk dance. This was abandoned, although footage of it exists.
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The Great Dictator / int_db7efdaf	comment	Adolf Hitlarious: Came pretty close to being the Trope Maker, but was beaten out by The Three Stooges' You Nazty Spy!.
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The Great Dictator / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Let's see...there's a random barber who happens to look exactly the same as Adenoid Hynkel, the fascist dictator of Tomania. He happens to be Jewish. And he happens to wake from a coma in which he's been trapped for twenty years, just around the same time that Hynkel is planning on invading Osterlich. Moreover, it turns out that this barber's old war buddy is now a high-ranking member (turned Defector from Decadence) of the fascist party. Oh...and Hynkel just happens to get lost on a duck-hunting trip at exactly the right moment for the barber to take his place.
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The Great Dictator / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: When the Jewish Barber is hanging to an upside-down plane by just the control stick, he never even raises his voice. When the plane starts to dive, Schultz (who's been shot and is delirious with blood loss) rambles about his beloved and daffodils, and continues even after the plane crashes.
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The Great Dictator / int_e2138f91	comment	Military Mashup Machine: Underwater tanks and flying dreadnoughts are mentioned.
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The Great Dictator / int_e3c20140	comment	As Long as It Sounds Foreign: A quite memorable (and hilarious) example of faux-German. Chaplin is making it up as he goes, and it's rather obvious that when he runs out of "words" he'll say "Fluten sacht der Fluten" or some similar-sounding gibberish. Notably, when he's dressing Herring down, "big Booben" and "pinheaden" both turn up in his speech.
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The Great Dictator / int_e3def52f	comment	Egopolis: The capital of Tomainia is completely dedicated to their Fooey, from Hynkelstrassen to Hynkel Stadium.
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The Great Dictator / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Great Dictator / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Although Chaplin, the film itself, and movie historians were and are adamant that the Jewish Barber is not the Little Tramp character Chaplin portrayed on screen between 1914 and 1936, anyone with eyes can see the obvious similarities, from the mustache to the shoes.
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The Great Dictator / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
The Great Dictator / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: Or, rather, an ending that leaves the plot hanging for a (quite effective and moving) Author Tract.
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The Great Dictator / int_eb2195d9	comment	Rousseau Was Right: The Anti-Nazism speech, in which Chaplin tells the audience, "You have the love of Humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate! The unloved and the unnatural."
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The Great Dictator / int_ee0c2c3c	comment	Fictional Country: Tomainia, Bacteria, and Osterlich are expies for Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Austria.
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The Great Dictator / int_efca7df8	comment	Insignia Ripoff Ritual: Whenever Field Marshal Herring pisses Hynkel off, Hynkel rips off all of his medals.
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The Great Dictator / int_f27ec906	comment	Identical Stranger: Both fictional dictator Hynkel and the unnamed barber.
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The Great Dictator / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
The Great Dictator / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: When the storm troopers assault the Osterlich village, they get into fights with the villagers. In a struggle, Hannah gets slapped hard in the face by a Hynkel mook.
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The Great Dictator / int_f8ec3418	type	Someone Has to Die
The Great Dictator / int_f8ec3418	comment	Someone Has to Die: Played for laughs. Commander Schultz comes up with a pudding & coin lottery to pick a member of the resistance group to commit a Heroic Sacrifice by going in and kill Hynkel single-handedly. Hilarity Ensues.
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