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An absolute ruler that has nothing to stop him. He has unlimited power over the place they control. It usually happened in Greek city-states.
Tyrants are sometimes cruel and harsh too.
True. Chaplin may have been the one filmmaker to hold out the longest against sound, but he also happened to be one of the earliest filmmakers to embrace it.
I'm gonna say it's the second one, often affect the way a story is told. I'm not entirely sure though.