Is it just me who thought Adenoid Hynkel would conclude "Quaquaquaqua . . ."

Rating: 9/10 (19 January 2014)

. . . during his outrageous speech which destroys the narrative flow at the close of THE GREAT DICTATOR? If L.A.'s Rodney King had yanked the mike from Hitler during the 1938 Nuremberg Rally and pleaded "Please, folks, can't we just all get along?" would that have prevented 100 million people from dying in WWII? Hynkel blathers "the Soul of Man has been given wings." Mostly mute Lucky, in Samuel Beckett's 1953 masterwork, WAITING FOR GODOT, begins one of the great speeches in the English language, "Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattman of a personal God Quaquaquaqua with a white beard Quaquaquaqua outside time without extension" . . . (My ellipse) "who can doubt it will fire the firmament that is to say blast hell to heaven so blue still and calm." Hynkel continues, "He's flying into the rainbow, into the light of hope." Lucky adds, "in a word I resume flying gliding golf over nine and eighteen holes tennis of all sorts in a word for reasons unknown in Feckham Peckham Fulham Clapham." Hynkel finishes up, "The glorious future--that belongs to you, to me, and to all of us: Look up, Hannah, look up!" Lucky concludes, "I resume alas alas abandoned unfinished the skull the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the skull alas the stones Cunard . . . tennis . . . the stones . . . so calm . . . Cunard . . . unfinished . . . " Okay, if I had to MEMORIZE one of these speeches to save my life, I would go for Hynkel's (even though it's probably a little longer than Lucky's). But which speech makes the most sense, disrupts the flow of its (screen)play the least, and best represents the "real world"? Why don't you copy both out in "long hand" in their entirety (as my class had to for Senior Dramatics), and decide for yourself.