During WWII British and American film industries released many propaganda films portraying enemy soldiers as cowardly, allied soldiers as virtuous and civilians as patriotic. .
Although GD was released before WWII and while America was still neutral it was one such film.
2. Chaplin made the film to influence democratic opinion and to stand fast against fascist dictators because he was a committed anti-fascist, natural propagandist and political idealist determined to make the world see its problems from his point of view. Examples of this before and after GD include:.
Modern Times (1939) - which was aimed at showing the dehumanization of assembly-line workers.
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) - which was a post-war pacifist film.
3. Appropriately enough shooting for the GD began the day Britain and France declared war on Germany.
Criticism and worry began at the same time. BBFC head Joseph Brooke-Wilkenson wrote to the Hays office director Breen with a warning that if the film attacked Hitler it would create a delicate situation in Britain.
This was because Britain had an appeasement policy, which depended upon not offending Hitler.
And it was clear that Chaplin's characters were historically real in all but name: Adenoid Hynkel was Adolf Hitler, Benzino Napaloni was Mussolini, Marshall Herring was Hermann Goering, head of the Luftwaffe and Propaganda minister Garbitsh was Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda in Germany.
Furthermore United Artists studios - the same studio that Chaplin helped found warned him that the film would never pass the censors and that it would not be shown in Britain or America.
He even received crank letters threatening to throw stink bombs or shoot up the screens where the film was being shown.
When accused of making propaganda films Chaplin did not deny it saying that it was incumbent upon people such as himself to make political propaganda on the side of Right.
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