Why 'The Interview' isn't like 'The Great Dictator' — or any movie ever — mashable.com

In the late 1930s, silent comedy legend Charlie Chaplin spent $1.5 million of his own money making his first talkie, and his first outright political satire, 1940's The Great Dictator. After seeing Leni Riefenstahl's infamously brilliant Nazi propaganda, Triumph of the Will, and becoming horrified by the dark turn of events in Germany, Chaplin set out to tweak the Führer by doing what he did best. Thus was born Adenoid Hynkel.

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