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I was just flipping through the channels and came across the movie 'The Great Dictator' with Charlie Chaplin. I've never seen this movie before but I happened to turn it there while this scene was playing and was blown away by it. Keep in mind that this movie was from 1941 and is a satire on Hitler. The globe in this scene represents so much symbolism.
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This is one of his "breakout" "talkie" movies. It got the public interested in him all over again. The last movie he did in 1936 as a silent movie "Modern Times" is considered a masterpiece. He actually hated talkies and thought that pantomime was the "true art". He was a personal friend of Winston Churchill... Truly a genius in his time...
Great post Sir!
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I'd actually go with the opening "Dawn of Man" sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey as the greatest opening scene of all time, though not as funny as Reservoir Dogs. I also love the opening scene in Once Upon a Time in the West (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHZpO6aNLwE).
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