Word: megalomania
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work on the picture dictators became too sinister for comedy. He probably intended to do an uproarious farce on dictatorship, or an amusing story of a shy little man who finds himself in a dictator's shoes. He ended by also doing an arraignment of the megalomania of dictatorship and the pathology of race hatred. Result: Chaplin the comedian and Chaplin the lover of democracy together run dictator-wild...