Are you thinking of Modern Times (1936)? Modern Times was (mostly) silent, The Great Dictator had sound.
I love Chaplin, but in my view it’s overrating it to call it one of the most influential movies of all time.
It was a great skewering of Hitler, and the payoff speech is considered timeless by some, and it’s a great movie, but influential? I don’t see it.
You are correct; my brain froze somewhere in mid-thought. Chaplin showed that you could, in a sense, ignore “what everyone says” and still fill seats.
Thanks, that was really interesting.
Yup; Wizard of Oz because it reaches great numbers of little kids in a positive mystical/spiritual way like no other…
It was also the start of moving credits to the end of the movie. Kubrick wanted it to be a cold open and had to fight the DGA and others to make it possible.
I’d have to add Jurassic Park, being one of the first movies to make believable looking CGI elements that were the primary factors of the story.
I don’t think that’s true (that 2001 started the trend of end credits).
I’d put To Kill A Mockingbird and 12 Angry Men in there for bringing prejudice into the national conversation.
I stand corrected
The Original King Kong.
Nobody who sees it ever really forgets it.