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* GodwinsLawOfFacialHair: The Barber is one of the earliest caricatures of Adolf Hitler and the movie is about a Jewish barber who is mistaken for a tyrannical dictator. He pretends to be a dictator and ultimately gives a speech in which he calls for peace and compassion.
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[[caption-width-right:250: TV-TROPEN... SCHTONK!]]
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* StunnedSilence: The crowd at Hynkel's speech automatically cheers whenever there's a break in it most of the time; The one time they [[EveryoneHasStandards need to be prompted to cheer]] is just after his crazed rant about "der Juden".
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* StunnedSilence: The crowd at Hynkel's speech automatically cheers whenever there's a break in it most of the time; The the one time they [[EveryoneHasStandards need to be prompted to cheer]] is just after his crazed rant about "der Juden".
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* StunnedSilence: The crowd at Hynkel's speech automatically cheers whenever there's a break in it most of the time; The one time they [[EveryoneHasStandards need to be prompted to cheer]] is just after his crazed rant about "der Juden".
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* DressedToOppress: Being a satire of the rise of fascism in Europe released nearly a year into UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, with specific focus on mocking UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini, both Adenoid Hynkel and Benzino Napaloni are inevitably dressed in dictatorial outfits mimicking their real-life inspirations. Hynkel dons a military jacket with his double-X emblem on both lapels and black jackboots, and is often seen wearing a CommissarCap that also bears the emblem. Meanwhile, Napaloni wears a military jacket and a large sash.
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* {{Expy}}:
** Obviously, Adenoid Hynkel is UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, Garbitsch is Joseph Goebbels, Herring is Hermann Göring/Goering, and Benzino Napaloni is UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini.
** Although Chaplin, the film itself, and movie historians were and are adamant that the Jewish Barber is ''not'' the Little Tramp character Chaplin portrayed on screen between 1914 and 1936, anyone with eyes can see the obvious similarities, from the mustache to the shoes.
** Obviously, Adenoid Hynkel is UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, Garbitsch is Joseph Goebbels, Herring is Hermann Göring/Goering, and Benzino Napaloni is UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini.
** Although Chaplin, the film itself, and movie historians were and are adamant that the Jewish Barber is ''not'' the Little Tramp character Chaplin portrayed on screen between 1914 and 1936, anyone with eyes can see the obvious similarities, from the mustache to the shoes.
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* {{Expy}}:
** Obviously, Adenoid Hynkel is UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, Garbitsch is Joseph Goebbels, Herring is Hermann Göring/Goering, and Benzino Napaloni is UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini.
**{{Expy}}: Although Chaplin, the film itself, and movie historians were and are adamant that the Jewish Barber is ''not'' the Little Tramp character Chaplin portrayed on screen between 1914 and 1936, anyone with eyes can see the obvious similarities, from the mustache to the shoes.
** Obviously, Adenoid Hynkel is UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, Garbitsch is Joseph Goebbels, Herring is Hermann Göring/Goering, and Benzino Napaloni is UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Obviously, Adenoid Hynkel is UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, Garbitsch is Joseph Goebbels, Herring is Hermann Göring/Goering, and Benzino Napaloni is UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini. Since then, it has become NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed.
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** Obviously, Adenoid Hynkel is UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, Garbitsch is Joseph Goebbels, Herring is Hermann Göring/Goering, and Benzino Napaloni is UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini.
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** And of course, Hynkel is [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]], Garbitsch is Goebbels, Herring is Göring/Goering, and Napaloni is [[UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini Mussolini]].
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* FictionalCountry: Tomainia and Bacteria are [[{{Expy}} expies]] for UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and UsefulNotes/FascistItaly.
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* FictionalCountry: Tomainia Tomainia, Bacteria, and Bacteria Osterlich are [[{{Expy}} expies]] for UsefulNotes/NaziGermany UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, UsefulNotes/FascistItaly, and UsefulNotes/FascistItaly.UsefulNotes/{{Austria}}.
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* RushmoreRefacement: The Art/VenusDeMilo and Rodin's Art/TheThinker doing the Nazi Salute.
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* RushmoreRefacement: The Art/VenusDeMilo and Rodin's Creator/AugusteRodin's Art/TheThinker doing the Nazi Salute.
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Ironically, for all of the controversy surrounding it, ''The Great Dictator'' was not the first American anti-Nazi comedy film -- Chaplin was upstaged by Film/TheThreeStooges with the short film ''Film/YouNaztySpy'' by nine months. It also wasn't the first anti-Hitler film of any sort -- that honor goes to ''Hitler's Reign of Terror'', released [[OlderThanTheyThink all the way back in 1934]].[[note]]Not many films attacking the Nazi regime were released before America's entry into the war. UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode technically forbade lampoons against public figures or world leaders and the studios were loathe at any rate to make any statements that might cause Hitler to ban their films in Germany, a lucrative market.[[/note]]
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Ironically, for all of the controversy surrounding it, ''The Great Dictator'' was not the first American anti-Nazi comedy film -- Chaplin was upstaged by Film/TheThreeStooges with the short film ''Film/YouNaztySpy'' by nine months. It also wasn't the first anti-Hitler film of any sort -- that honor goes to ''Hitler's Reign of Terror'', released [[OlderThanTheyThink all the way back in 1934]].[[note]]Not many films attacking the Nazi regime were released before America's entry into the war. UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode technically forbade lampoons against public figures or world leaders leaders, and the studios were loathe at any rate to make any statements that might cause Hitler to ban their films in Germany, a lucrative market.[[/note]]
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* RushmoreRefacement: The Venus De Milo and Rodin's Thinker doing the Nazi Salute.
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* MickeyMousing: An astonishing scene where the Jewish Barber shaves a customer in perfect time with [[Creator/JohannesBrahms Brahms']] Hungarian Dance #5. Supposedly the intent was to record multiple takes and piece it together in editing; instead Chaplin brought the phonograph to the set, played the music, and nailed the entire routine on the first practice take.
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* MickeyMousing: An astonishing scene where the Jewish Barber shaves a customer in perfect time with [[Creator/JohannesBrahms [[Music/JohannesBrahms Brahms']] Hungarian Dance #5. Supposedly the intent was to record multiple takes and piece it together in editing; instead Chaplin brought the phonograph to the set, played the music, and nailed the entire routine on the first practice take.
