Frame Study : The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin

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        Welcome to my blog ! This blog is about frame studying on the famous movie that Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin.  THE GREAT DICTATOR, based on an original story written, directed and produced by Charles Chaplin and released through United Artists; musical direction by Meredith Willson. At the Astor and Capitol Theatres.

        Let's have look on slides and frame.

When he was playing with a glob balloon the map broke up. That through we assume that  he was not stable to rule over the world as long as he wanted. Maybe That is the sign of his fallout. When he was playing with a glob balloon the map broke up. That through we assume that  he was not stable to rule over the world as long as he wanted. Maybe That is the sign of his fallout.

As birds are no longer safe in prison but the situation of Jews is more dangerous. The Ghetto is like open jail. That we connect with the current situation of our country.

 

                The crowd goes wild when Hynkel shouts “Soldiers for Tomainia!”—but when he makes a gesture with his hand, they instantly go silent. That showed his control over them. In a final speech he doesn't make any gesture to make silent. It looks like I am here don't behavior against me.

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              Another splendid sequence is that in which Hynkel and Napaloni, a neighboring dictator, meet and bargain. How Hynkel and Napaloni tries to show their power to one another. That one Dictator always wants to become more and more powerful. This particular sequence is portrayed as a funny way but it is explore characteristics of a dictator.

         Both Dictators wanted to take Photographs and Hynkel wanted to show their army and powerful weapons and all the things.  The public was also very enthusiastic about Napaloni. So we have to think about how we react at present time to this type of situation.

Final speech of The Great Dictator : ( click here to watch and read final speech )

The final speech by barabar is a symbolic one and very important.  The way Camara works at that time speech is going on. We have two different kinds of look and frame.

This  frame we connect with the present time. As our government wanted to increase our weapons. A decade ago Charlie Chaplin made fun of that.

The character of Schultz, who was against him that's why Hynkel gave a punishment. Schultz tries to persuade the Jewish family to assassinate Hynkel in a suicide attack, but they are dissuaded by Hannah. Troops search the ghetto, arrest Schultz and the Barber, and send both to a concentration camp.

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Frame study : Charlie Chaplin's movie The Modern Times and The Great Dictator

           "  Life  is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.  "  - Charlie Chaplin.

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    Welcome to my world !! Here I am going to present my views on two movies by Charlie Chaplin. I am doing a frame study of this film. The movies are  The Modern Times and The Great Dictator.

     It is an interesting study through the perspective of the modern age and twentieth century. How the camera works, and  how the portrait situation relates to the particular history of the century. How he portrayed comedy with high seriousness, that became noticeable. If you watch both these movies without any deep understanding and context then you may say that these are great comedies. But , if you watch a movie in a critical way then this becomes more serious.

Let's know about  a comedy king with high seriousness, Sir Charles Spenser Cheplin was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.

Let's have a glimpses of some of the frame that is important to related with the twentieth century.

The Modern Times :

        The opening scene is very metaphorical. Because it suggests that How human beings are bound by time itself.  If you think you are free then that is half truth. Because we are bound by time.we have to do work from time to time.  Because of The invention of the machine and all the things we have become slaves of time. Time is ruling over us in a very crucial way. That is also suggested that the clock showing 6 o' clock,that must be a time to go factory and work.

       

          Here we can see that in the opening scene that Chaplin portrayed a herd of sheep along the fade up scene with the herd of man. That shows us that people don't have enough thinking for their future plan. They do work like sheeps.  The workers assembly line possibly his greatest slapstick encounter with the twentieth century. Here we can see the herd mentality of mankind.

This particular frame shows us the helplessness of the worker. The feeding machine came up with an idea that if you use this machine for your worker then the lunch time will be eliminated and you have more production. And the owner who said let's have a demo.  The worker who can't be denied a demo. Chaplin who suffers a lot from that machine. This particular scene is the most hilarious one. But if we think deeply then we realize that the man who stands near Chaplin who doesn't think about his suffering… and he was working like Chaplin don't have emotions like machines. His behavior is like he was dealing with a machine but actually he experiments on lived human beings.

The final scene in 'The Modern Times' is stunning, and in many ways. There is a message of hope amidst the poverty of the Depression, with Chaplins responding to Goddard feeling overwhelmed and defeated by saying Buck up - never say die. We then see his signature move, walking off down the road, but this time he is not alone, he has Goddard with him, which could be viewed as overcoming through love and togetherness.

2) The Great Dictator :

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