ANGLAIS – Analyse du film
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ANGLAIS – Analyse du film
ANGLAIS – Histoire des Arts : LE DICTATEUR ANGLAIS – Analyse du film The Great Dictator is a comedy film by Charlie Chaplin released in October 1940. Like most Chaplin films, he wrote, produced, and directed, in addition to starring as the lead. Having been the only Hollywood film maker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, this was Chaplin's first true talking picture as well as his most commercially successful film. At the time of its first release, the United States was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany. Chaplin's film advanced a stirring, controversial condemnation of Hitler, fascism, anti-Semitism, and the Nazis, whom he excoriates in the film as "machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts". Charlie Chaplin de son vrai nom Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin est un acteur, réalisateur, producteur et écrivain anglais né en 1989 et décédé en 1977. Charlie Chaplin fut l’une des personnes les plus célèbres du cinéma muet et a réalisé de nombreux film tel que La ruée vers l’or (1925) ou Les temps modernes (1974). C’est une icône du cinéma comique. Le Dictateur (The Great dictator) est son premier vrai film parlant, tourné en Amérique entre 1938 et 1940, il parut pour la première fois à New York en 1940. Il fut censuré jusqu’en 1945 en France par la caricature des nazis et des fasciste présents dans le film. Résumé: Dans les années 1930, la Tomagne est sous le contrôle du dictateur Adenoid Hynkel, qui rêve de domination mondiale. Dans le quartier juif de la capitale vit un barbier qui ressemble comme un frère au dictateur. Grâce au fait que, pendant la guerre, il a sauvé la vie à un aviateur devenu depuis un des hommes importants du régime, le barbier est pour un temps à l'abri des persécutions antisémites. Mais lorsque son protecteur tombe en disgrâce, il se retrouve enfermé avec lui dans un camp de concentration. Quelque temps après, les deux hommes arrivent à s'évader et le jeu des circonstances amène le barbier à être pris pour le dictateur et à prononcer un discours à sa place. Dés les premières scènes du film, le spectateur est directement immergés dans le registre burlesque. Il permet de dénoncer le nazisme d’un ton léger, l'humour de Chaplin permet aux spectateur de voir la réalité sous un autre angle et de la comprendre d'avantage même si celle-ci est plutôt tragique. Par exemple, plusieurs détail montrent la pensée d’Hynkel en la ridiculisant : la scène du canon où Chaplin perd le contrôle de la situation et lors du discours Chaplin s’exprime dans une langue inventée qui ressemble à l’Allemand et donne un effet comique. Histoire des Arts, collège Roger Vailland, 2014 ANGLAIS – Histoire des Arts : LE DICTATEUR Décrypter les personnages et les lieux Hynkel Hitler Napoloni Pétain La Tomainia Allemagne L'Austerlich Autriche Garbitch Goebbles + Goring Herring Himmler Heinrich Luitpold Himmler est un criminel de guerre allemand. Il fut l'un des plus hauts dignitaires du Troisième Reich. Il était le maître absolu de la SS (Reichsführer-SS), chef de la police allemande (Chef der Deutschen Polizei), dont la Gestapo et, à partir de 1943, ministre de l'Intérieur du Reich, commandant en chef de l'armée de réserve de la Wehrmacht.Il est également considéré comme le Jahrhundertmörder (« meurtrier du siècle ») par certains auteurs allemands. Il s'est suicidé le 23 mai 1945 pour échapper à tout jugement ultérieur. Hermann Wilhelm Göring était Commandant en chef de la Luftwaffe et ministre de l'Air, il fut condamné à mort à l'issue du procès de Nuremberg en raison de son implication dans les crimes du régime nazi. Joseph Goebbels était un proche d'Adolf Hitler et, avec Hermann Goering et Heinrich Himmler, un des ministres les plus puissants et influents du Troisième Reich. Il était ministre de la propagande. Les traits de Hitler sont mous. Front moyen, nez moyen, bouche moyenne : l'expression du visage est figée, morne et vulgaire; les yeux légèrement globuleux n'ont d'éclat que dans la colère et la transe; la voix rude, rauque, profonde, roule les r comme des cailloux; la démarche est raide et solennelle; les gestes sont rares et on ne le voit jamais ni rire ni sourire. Histoire des Arts, collège Roger Vailland, 2014 ANGLAIS – Histoire des Arts : LE DICTATEUR Mussolini a été dessiné avec plus d'art; il a le masque césarien, front vaste, menton carré, bouche avide et gourmande; sa physionomie, d'une extrême mobilité, reflète en un instant les sentiments les plus divers; sur le fond bistré du teint les yeux se détachent, d'un noir de jais, chargés d'éclairs; la voix est aigüe..; il est prompt, souple, agile; il y a de la finesse dans son sourire... I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor, that's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. Histoire des Arts, collège Roger Vailland, 2014 ANGLAIS – Histoire des Arts : LE DICTATEUR We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair". The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish. . . Histoire des Arts, collège Roger Vailland, 2014 ANGLAIS – Histoire des Arts : LE DICTATEUR Soldiers: don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate, only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty. In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written: "The kingdom of God is within man" Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men; in you, the people. You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power, let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Histoire des Arts, collège Roger Vailland, 2014 ANGLAIS – Histoire des Arts : LE DICTATEUR Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite! Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting, the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality. The soul of man has been given wings, and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow, into the light of hope, into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up. Histoire des Arts, collège Roger Vailland, 2014 ANGLAIS – Histoire des Arts : LE DICTATEUR ANGLAIS – Charlie CHAPLIN Histoire des Arts, collège Roger Vailland, 2014 ANGLAIS – Histoire des Arts : LE DICTATEUR ANGLAIS - Chaplin's final speech I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor, that's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair". The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish... Soldiers: don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate, only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty. In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written: "The kingdom of God is within man" Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men; in you, the people. You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power, let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite! Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting, the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality. The soul of man has been given wings, and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow, into the light of hope, into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up. Histoire des Arts, collège Roger Vailland, 2014 ANGLAIS – Histoire des Arts : LE DICTATEUR ANGLAIS - The Plot In World War One, a nameless Jewish barber (Charles Chaplin) is injured fighting for the fictional nation of Tomania, and spends years in a veterans’ hospital. He eventually wanders home, unaware that the Hitler-like Adenoid Hynkel (also Chaplin) has seized absolute power and turned Tomania into an anti-semitic war machine. While defending his shop from storm troopers, the barber meets the beautiful Hannah (Paulette Goddard -- near the end of her long romantic relationship with Chaplin,) and becomes an unwitting hero to the nascent resistance movement developing in the ghetto. Meanwhile, Hynkle plots to conquer the neighboring nation of Osterlich and become Emperor of the World (a scheme commemorated in Chaplin’s delicate, fiendish dance with an inflatable globe.) In a classic mistaken identity ruse, the poor Jewish barber is taken for merciless Hynkle, leading to a heartfelt plea from Chaplin himself for humanity and justice -- surely one of the greatest speeches ever captured on film. The Great Dictator The plot. Jewish shop conquer Hynkel World War One played by beautiful also In World War One, a nameless Jewish barber (played by Charles Chaplin) is injured fighting for the fictional nation of Tomania. He becomes amnesic and spends years in a hospital. He eventually goes back home but he doesn’t know that the Hitler-like Adenoid Hynkel (also played by Chaplin) has seized absolute power and turned Tomania into an anti-semitic war machine. While defending his shop from storm troopers, the barber meets the beautiful Hannah and becomes a hero to the resistance movement developing in the ghetto. Meanwhile, Hynkle plots to conquer the neighboring nation of Osterlich and become Emperor of the World . Several adventures lead to a confusion: Hynkel is mistaken for the barber and the barber for Hynkell! Histoire des Arts, collège Roger Vailland, 2014