I love it when someone reminds us that movies exist not just as discrete, isolated things, but as elements of a single big continuum stretching back more than a century. Here we have footage from
The Return of the Jedi and
The Clone Wars, music from
Inception, and audio from the big moment of Chaplin's 1940
The Great Dictator (I write about that one
here).
At first I was skeptical about this, but as it went along I became surprisingly moved by it. It struck me that Chaplin's speech could also be used as the
cri de coeur for a mashup of conscientiously chosen OWS footage. I
posted such a remix, about the Arab Spring, last March.
(Via
Big Shiny Robot)
