WEAPON OF RIDICULE
“Behind the, picture is the belief that laughter may help check the bad behaviour in the world, ’ ’ said Mr Charles Chaplin, discussing his latest film in a “New York Times” interview. “Leaders with tenth-rate minds have captured the new instruments of propaganda and are using these instruments to destroy good, civilised kind of people. lam the 'clown, and what can I do that is more effective than to laugh at these fellows who are putting humanity to the gopse-step; who, as .1 say in one of my first captions, are kicking humanity around? Pessimists say I may fail—-that flicattors are no t funny any more, that the evil is too serious. That is wrong. If there is one think I know it is that power can always be made ridiculous. The bigger that follow gets the harder mv laughter will hit him.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 112, 21 February 1941, Page 4
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