Charlie Chaplin ''The Great Dictator'' powerful excerpt.

My hope is that you do not view this video as simply a segment of an old movie, but that it causes you to seriously think! Listen to every word, and consider our situation today. It is never too late to effect change.

''The Great Dictator'' is a film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin.
First released on October 15, 1940, it is a parody and satire of Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
Chaplin's film is highly exceptional for this period (1940), when the U.S. was still at peace with Nazi Germany, for its fearless satire and condemnation of Hitler and Nazism. It holds the distinction of being both Chaplin's first "talkie," and his most commercially successful film.

I will not upload the entire film, but it is available on Longoaiphong's channel @
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tz0gGgpSM8



Transcript of this scene:

I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor, that's not my business, I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.

We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there's room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity, more than clevernesswe need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities life will be violent, and all will be lost.

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair". The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress; the hate of men will pass and dictators die, and the power they took from the people, will return to the people, and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers, don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and slave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.

Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate, only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers, don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.

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. You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let us use that power, let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world, that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security.

By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie; they do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all mens happiness.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all UNITE!

Transcript of closing scene (not in video):

Hannah, can you hear me? Where ever you are, look up Hannah. The clouds are lifting, the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light; we are coming into a new world, a kindly world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed, and brutality.

Look up Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings, and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow, into the light of hope, into the future, that glorious future, that belongs to you, to me, and to all of us. Look up Hannah, look up!

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[SoulswithnoHopes]

If people were stupid enough to be enslaved then that's just their fault......

I wasn't exactly enlightened by that.... not the slightest

[Wecanstopnwo1]

I HATE THE DEMOCRACY is them dictadure

[RikJamezBich]

Why such a brilliant clip so little views. Gawd it's a little scary.

[longded]

many thanks! ;]