Communism and that metaphorically I had sat on the fence. These were the rumblings of a misunderstanding of [Chaplin's] motives which grew in volume over the next decade and finally led to [Chaplin's] departure from the United States in 1952.[4] When Chaplin spoke in San Francisco, at the meeting place of the American Ambassador to Russia, Joseph Davie, he exclaimed that he was not a Communist and was not claiming through his films to be. Chaplin said that his intentions were to create comedy films and that he considered himself a "peace-monger."[5] Charles Chaplin became frustrated because the meanings he attempted to portray became misconstrued and misunderstood. Silent films, I believe, presented this problem because without speech many visual effects and actions are examined and understood oppositely from what the artist originally had hoped. Specifically, leaders held biased opinions of his films in a sense that they thought it was a mockery rather than a comedy. For example, when he was asked to halt making his film, The Great Dictator, he stated in a press release (3/21/39):Owing to erroneous reports in the press that I have abandoned my production concerning dictators, I wish to state that I have never wavered from my original determination to produce this picture. Any report, past, present or future to the effect that I have given up the idea, is deliberately false. I am not worried about intimidation, censorship or anything else. I am making a comedy picture on the lives of dictators which I hope will create much laughter throughout the world.[6] Proving that instead of using the silent films as a means of angering and depressing society, he wanted to use the media as a medium of relaying information through comedy. Though Charles Chaplin also wanted to clarify that comedy was not to be equivalent to mockery and sarcasm. For instance, Chaplin once said that if he would have known "the actual horrors of the Nazi concentration c...
