Charlie Chaplin - More than a comedian

Sir Charles Chaplin- The man we know, the story most of us don’t know!
Charlie Chaplin (More than a comedian) .

Mr.Chaplin’s life and work were not only constrained to a comedian actor but he was also a peace monger and a humanitarian activist.

Ever wondered why Mr.Chaplin left Hollywood?
In fact, his fame was the reason he was picked out. Though British, Chaplin had been living in America for nearly 40 years when Senator Joseph McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee took aim at him. He was put on an FBI black list in 1948, which prevented him from working in Hollywood.
He defiantly told McCarthy’s committee: “I do not want to create any revolution. All I want to create is a few more films. I might amuse people. I hope so.”
An FBI investigation was opened, and Chaplin was forced to leave the United States and settle in Switzerland.
In the autumn of 1952, he set sail on the Queen Elizabeth with his wife and four children. He was heading for Britain, for a holiday. On 19 September, word came through that if he were to return to America, he would be arrested.
He got the message and stayed away. He never lived there again. “I would not go back there even if Jesus Christ were the president,” he announced.
Many years after McCarthy had safely left the scene, Chaplin did visit the US one more time, in 1972 – to pick up an honorary Oscar.
Charlie Chaplin final speech from the great dictator-
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 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
Good 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.
Do not despair . . .
You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power, let us all unite!
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, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, 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 like cattle, use you 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, the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
[Link for audio-visual of the speech Charlie Chaplin - final speech from the 'Great Dictator']

At that time in 1970 this speech gave hope to the people to face of overhelming despair.
This Speech remains relevant till today.
The world is still gripped in the vise of detrimental prejudices and ideologies
Race, religion, nationality, caste and gender have divided people who are being manipulated by those wicked people in the power for their personal gains.
Things need to change and they need to change now itself
And if they don’t change we might soon be heading towards another great war and this time I can’t either no one can predict the intensity of the war, but surely the next one would be fought with stones (as rightly stated by Albert Einstein) or it might happen so that it would be the final one mankind which will fight.
Charlie Chaplin’s speech even today after 4 scores and a year later is so relevant.
Why???
Because time has gone but somewhere we have stuck in the storm.
Let us all remember the man who brought smile on our faces and fight for humanity with peace like him and hope the next generations won’t fight for anything…



-Janhavi Prachi Nitin Dudhane

Comments

  1. Prachi Dudhane@WarsaMay 2, 2021 at 5:41 AM

    Salute to the legendary actor and peace maker Charlie Chaplin !
    Great article ! Keep writing

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