[ by Charles Cameron -- a storm in a tea-kettle, various
resemblances to Hitler, how Pudovkin perceived and practiced
montage, what happened when the talkies came along, and four
faces of Christ ] It begins with something as innocent ad a tea
kettle: Does this otherwise innocuous tea kettle resemble
Hitler? Does it look enough like Hitler to merit JC Penney
withdrawing it from sale? Let’s take a look at a couple of other
“resemblances to Hitler”: Who most resembles Hitler — Chaplin,
or Stalin? On the face of it, that’s an easy question. If I were
to just ask you the question “who is most like Hitler” in words,
you might very well say Stalin, or Pol Pot perhaps — or, I
suppose, if you were very focused on World War II and the Axis
leaders, Mussolini. And if I asked you “who looks most like
Hitler?” you might well say Charlie Chaplin — but you’d be
“thinking visually” in terms of appearances, rather than
“verbally” in terms of meanings. So there are at least two
different ways someone can resemble Hitler — in t