Hynkel the Great Dictator and the little Ghetto barber are both played by Chaplin in the film. Jack Oakie is Napaloni. The likenesses to Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini are, of course, purely accidental. The satirical situation in the plot is created when the little barber, a Jew, becomes the great dictator, and is accepted as being immaculately Aryan for as long as the bluff holds out Many newsreel pictures of that more fatal clown were studied by Chaplin so that he could mimic the totalitarian gesture. The gesticulation enlivens a stream of aa noises resembling the German language, with which Chaplin mimics Hitler's frenzied public speeches
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 70, 25 October 1940, Page 20
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107Hynkel the Great Dictator and the little Ghetto barber are both played by Chaplin in the film. Jack Oakie is Napaloni. The likenesses to Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini are, of course, purely accidental. The satirical situation in the plot is created when the little barber, a Jew, becomes the great dictator, and is accepted as being immaculately Aryan for as long as the bluff holds out Many newsreel pictures of that more fatal clown were studied by Chaplin so that he could mimic the totalitarian gesture. The gesticulation enlivens a stream of aa noises resembling the German language, with which Chaplin mimics Hitler's frenzied public speeches New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 70, 25 October 1940, Page 20
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