2. "The Great Dictator" came out in 1940, late in the day. In 1930s, Hollywood had record of trying to appease Nazis.
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3. This New Yorker article goes over the historical debate about Hollywood's response to Nazism: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/16/hitler-in-hollywood …
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@HeerJeet: 1. The analogies people are making with "The Interview" and "The Great Dictator" don't really work.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Surely there's a reasonable analogy with Team America, tho.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@billmon1 Well, I think Hitler and Hoover probably had very similar enemy lists.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@byrdie36 No, I haven't seen. Will check out.
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@billmon1@HeerJeet Also George Orwell, displaying anti-Semitism & commie-punching to establish own "reliability": http://www.mhpbooks.com/the-fable-of-the-weasel-by-alexander-cockburn/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Good analogy is with South Park guys' Kim Jong-un in Team America: World Police, better than anything Rogen/Franco could do.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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