VALLE OF LAUGHTER
RIDICULING THE DICTATORS. CHARLES CHAPLIN'S OBJECT. "Behind my picture is the belief that 'laughter may help check the bad behaviour in the world,'” says Charles Chaplin, in discussing his film. "The Dictator." "Leaders with tenth-rate minds have captured the new instruments of propaganda and are using these instruments to destroy good, civilised kind of people. "I'm the clown, and what can I do that is more effective- than to laugh at these fellows who are putting humanity to the goose-step; who. as I say in one of my first captions, are kicking humanity around? Pessimists say 1 may fail—that dictators aren't funny any more, that the evil is too serious. That is wrong. If there is one thing I know it is that power cap always be made ridiculous. The bigger that fellow gets the harder my laughter will hit him. 1 laugh at the dictators—but the,y are not inhuman, really, in the picture.
".At one point-—listen--;it one point as the Dictator 1 do a dance with the world —around a big globe that is a map of the world. And there the poor madman is something else than ridiculous; be is one little man with the whole wide, vast unconquerable world, and he thinks the world is his."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 9
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212VALLE OF LAUGHTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 9
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