The Film The Great Dictator, By Charlie Chaplin

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In the film “The Great Dictator”, Charlie Chaplin predicted many things that were totally different from how the actual events had occurred. Often there are scenes or clips in films that get misinterpreted but not as bad as they did in Charlie Chaplin’s film “The great Dictator”. One thing that Charlie Chaplin had the wrong ideal of was the way the Nazi concentration camps were ran and set up. When Chaplin made this film he basically made a rip off assumption of the concentration camps. Nothing that was shown was accurate about the setup and way of living inside of the concentration camps. The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that’s acceptable in a constitutional democracy. Charlie Chaplin’s ideal of a concentration camp seemed extremely well kept than how the actual camps were. In the film the beds were seen as individual beds that were placed side by side when in reality a couple of people or more slept in confined spaces that seemed somewhat smaller than bump beds. Not only were the beds different but the building itself and the way that …show more content…

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