Charlie Chaplin's Speech From "The Great Dictator"
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Charlie Chaplin's call for peace in the final speech of The Great Dictator is regrettably as relevant today as it was in 1940.
Charlie Chaplin, born in London on Apr 16, 1889, reportedly spent months drafting and re-drafting the final speech for his 1940 movie, The Great Dictator. The result was a rousing call to peace during World War II, which is as relevant today as it was then.
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film, in fact, "The Great Dictator" was his first movie with sound. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977.
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"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 is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
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 cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost….
"The airplane 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.
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At the 1972 Academy Awards ceremony Charlie Chaplin was presented with an Honorary Award "For the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century." Nobody has ever matched the 12 minute long standing ovation he received from the audience.
IIRC for a period of time he was banned from entering the U,S, but eventually I supposed they changed that policy-- or perhaps they just let him in to get that award?
"In April, 1972, Chaplin finally returned to the United States to accept an award from the Lincoln Center Film Society in New York and an honorary Oscar (his second) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. He was issued a one-time entry visa valid for two months."
Thanks for that information.
Reading it now I remember that I had read it before but had forgotten that information.
An aunt of mine was a professional dancer, performer, and mime. Two of the people she greatly admired were Chaplin, and much later another famous mime (Marcel Marceau). She actually met one of them.
I don't remember which one-- could it have been Chaplin? I'm not sure about the dates. (My aunt was born in 1908 and died in 1999)..
She died and is buried in a town I believe you know well (Netanya Israel)
I once met a man in Toronto whose name was Charlie Chaplin, but he wasn't the actor.
Yes, I have spent some time in Netanya.
You've mentioned that before on NT.
I have also visited there. A very beautiful place. I also remember that much of the population there were Jews who immigrated there from other countries where they were persecuted. Some from former British colonies-- so many spoke English)
The day may come when humans no longer fight wars, they send robots to battle in their stead.
Elon Musk is probably a genius (albeit a fairly eccentric one). His car business (Tesla) is doomed to failure. However (I believe this was mentioned here on NT) he is now focusing on Robots. Tesla will probably stop producing cars & will become a robot company!
Why is Tesla doomed?
For a time some people were buying (or not buying) Tesla cars for political reasons (either because they were opposed to the use of fossil fuels-- others because they wanted the continued use of fossil fuels). Buts that's not the main reason.
Its mainly because other countries (particularly China) have much lower labour costs than the U.S.-- but they still can produce the same quality car produced in the U.S.
As a result most people have begun to realize that a non-U.S. car of the same quality of a U.S. car can be much less expensive.
As much as Musk loves hisTesla vehicles, he realizes the drawbacks to continuing his business of competing with other countries on car price. So apparently he's been looking to use his ingenuity in producing something else.
One trend he's definitely aware of-- more and more robots will be used in the future. (Both comercially as well as in the home)
So I could be wrong, but my guess is that therefore Tesla will gradually stop producing electric vehicles and instead Tesla will shift towards becoming a robot producing company!
Nikola Tesla died alone from coronary thrombosis (heart failure) on January 7, 1943, at age 86, in Room 3327 of the Hotel New Yorker. At this point, there is no definitive evidence of any afterlife. As for the South African rectal wart using a great inventors name for his own profit, we can only hope for a swift and final outcome where we never have to see his drug addled face again.
All this has given me an idea. We could save human lives if we trained robots to be soldiers and used them instead of humans to fight wars.
Re-reading that comment I realized it might have given the wrong impression. What I intended to say was not that Tesla as a company was "doomed", but rather if it remained soley a car company it was doomed.
However if it's "re-invented" as a robot producing company it will probably have a bright future!
And its apparent to me that Musk knows that.
A future with lots of helpful robots could be good, but as well, maybe because of the movies I've seen, it could also be dystopian. Both possibilities are depicted in the movies.
To be or not to be-- that is the question!
No wait-- that is not the important question. The real question is actually twofold:
1. Why is Hal so stubborn about not wanting to open the Pod Bay Doors?
and more importantly:
2.How can we get him to open them?
1. That's one of the things that worries me about robots.
2. Make him sing a song. How about "Daisy"?
It may be that we're doing that-- to some degree-- already. Depends upon how you define military drones. Aren't they technically robots?
Or does "robot" only apply to humanoid robots-- machines that look like a person...?
I was thinking of the humanoid ones.
2.How can we get him to open them?
Vegemite?
Only in Australia.