12-18-2014, 08:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-18-2014, 08:08 AM by Mass Distraction.)
We've had multiple movies about the assassination or death of a known leader. There are a ton of movies where the White House is destroyed with everyone inside. There is a movie about the death (and another one about the redeath) of Osama Bin Laden. That's just the tip of the iceberg.
Chaplin himself said it the best: "I was determined to go ahead, for Hitler must be laughed at."
The same applies to North Korean leaders and their pure idiocy. The big difference is, though, that Hitler accomplished something, no matter how controversial it was. North Korea is just the laughing stock of the rest of the world.
Besides, it wasn't the controversy of the film itself that was the downfall of Chaplin, the movie made a ton of money and got multiple Oscar nominations. The part where it fell apart was the speech Chaplin concluded the film with. I doubt this movie would have had a ten-minute political speech at the end of it.
Chaplin himself said it the best: "I was determined to go ahead, for Hitler must be laughed at."
The same applies to North Korean leaders and their pure idiocy. The big difference is, though, that Hitler accomplished something, no matter how controversial it was. North Korea is just the laughing stock of the rest of the world.
Besides, it wasn't the controversy of the film itself that was the downfall of Chaplin, the movie made a ton of money and got multiple Oscar nominations. The part where it fell apart was the speech Chaplin concluded the film with. I doubt this movie would have had a ten-minute political speech at the end of it.