Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Production

The passage that I choose is the following:

Around 1900 technical reproduction had reached a standard that not only permitted it to reproduce all transmitted works of art and thus to cause the most profound change in their impact upon the public; it also had captured a place of its own among the artistic processes. For the study of this standard nothing is more revealing than the nature of the repercussions that these two different manifestations – the reproduction of works of art and the art of the film – have had on art in its traditional form.

To my interpretation this quote is saying that film and art have changed so much during the 

years, that it has taken a turn that no one had imagine. Art has become so important among 

people that is has transformed from a simple ritual to work of art, during the mechanical

reproduction. 

This quote relates to media today in the way that people are so inspire by art and film that

some dedicate their lives to it. It has changed so much that people are even trying to come up

with their own ways to make people fell in love too. 

The film The Great Dictator is being compared to dadaism in a way that it shows how 

people are being forced to what to do. In the film they stand to something different, out

of the ordinary.