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Star of Film 'Downfall' and Widespread 'Hitler Finds Out...' Meme, Dead At 77 (theguardian.com)
The Guardian reports: Bruno Ganz, the Swiss actor who played Adolf Hitler in the film Downfall, has died in Zurich at the age of 77, his agent announced. The actor became internationally renowned for his 2004 portrayal of the German dictator's final days inside his Berlin bunker. In a Guardian review of Downfall Rob Mackie described Ganz as "the most convincing screen Hitler yet: an old, bent, sick dictator with the shaking hands of someone with Parkinson's, alternating between rage and despair in his last days in the bunker...." It is widely believed to be the cinematic footage most often shared online, as well as the cause of one of the world's most productive internet memes.
They're referring to "One climactic scene featuring a Ganz tour de force" that was "relentlessly parodied in widespread 'Hitler Finds Out...' videos, featuring anachronistic subtitles depicting his rage and fury over topical, mundane, or banal events and trivial gossip," explains long-time Slashdot reader Freshly Exhumed:
The spread of the meme was aided inestimably by the Streisand Effect caused when the production company, Constantin Films began sending DMCA takedown notices to YouTube. Eventually the company relented as the parodies constituted strong fair use cases.
When the director of the film was asked about the parodies, he admitted that "I think I've seen about 145 of them! Of course, I have to put the sound down when I watch. Many times the lines are so funny, I laugh out loud, and I'm laughing about the scene that I staged myself! You couldn't get a better compliment as a director."
They're referring to "One climactic scene featuring a Ganz tour de force" that was "relentlessly parodied in widespread 'Hitler Finds Out...' videos, featuring anachronistic subtitles depicting his rage and fury over topical, mundane, or banal events and trivial gossip," explains long-time Slashdot reader Freshly Exhumed:
The spread of the meme was aided inestimably by the Streisand Effect caused when the production company, Constantin Films began sending DMCA takedown notices to YouTube. Eventually the company relented as the parodies constituted strong fair use cases.
When the director of the film was asked about the parodies, he admitted that "I think I've seen about 145 of them! Of course, I have to put the sound down when I watch. Many times the lines are so funny, I laugh out loud, and I'm laughing about the scene that I staged myself! You couldn't get a better compliment as a director."
Hitler: So, I want spelling errors here, here, and here. Then, we can re-post the same story several times. The community just loves that..
Office: but mein fuhrer....
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
But der Furher, that symbol you love was created by brown people you hate!
Turn it 90 degrees!
Who? What? Why?
Wait 'til Hitler finds out!!!
I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
... videos coming up, I guess?
I probably would never have seen that movie at all, but the acting was so great in that one scene that was in endless memes, that I actually did watch the whole thing. It's well worth watching and is almost strange to see the real scene with real lines...
So it's good the eventually left the parodies alone because it really raises interest in the movie as well.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
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Wanting your nation to have pride in their race has nothing to do with hate. All races and ethnicities served under him.
Just because you dont share the same goals as someone else doesnt mean you hate them. It also doesnt mean one is more valid than the other.
But please continue to rewrite history.
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It's a shame that Bruno Ganz is only known here as the guy who played Hitler. He's performed so many excellent roles in classic films. His performances in Wings of Desire and The American Friend were some of the greatest of the 70's and 80's. I recently watched Väter und Söhne, and he was otherworldly (as was Julie Christie).
Those of you who are capable of reading subtitles should go watch those right away. You'll never think of Bruno Ganz merely as Hitler again.
You are welcome on my lawn.
And we're bringing it back. It's time to kill every last cowardly inbred traitor nazi, and their illiterate inbred families. No quarter, wipe the inbreds out. America has no finer tradition than killing nazi scumbag faggots.
https://m.jpost.com/Opinion/Why-is-Adolf-Hitler-popular-in-India-376622
ÂGrowing up in India, Rohee Dasgupta didnâ(TM)t realize the irony on display in bookstores across the country. There, next to the Diary of Anne Frank or biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, would be a copy of Adolf Hitlerâ(TM)s infamous polemic, Mein Kampf. It was only after spending numerous years in the United Kingdom studying anthropology and Eastern European Jewish history that she was taken aback.
âoeIt was rather striking and odd. It just shows ignorance to display Anne Frank and Mein Kampf on the same shelf,â says Dr. Dasgupta, now a professor of European Studies at O.P. Jindal Global University, a private Indian university north of Delhi.Â
You are all like Hitler for talking about legacy of a great actor but only talking about him playing Hitler.
I like Mr. Ganz as much as the next guy (I've seen him in "Wings of Desire" back in the day, FYI), but how is this Slashdot territory?
Is it just for a cheap SEO for the topic "Hitler"?
Sheesh, is this site going downhill... or am I getting old and cranky?
Nah, it's the kids.
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That is beyond meta. Good one.
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
My dad comes from THE town in Afghanistan (former Iran) that used to literally be called *Aryana*! THE origin of Aryans!
So go ahead telling me to destroy non-Aryans, like the pale degenerated you for example. ;)
Yeah. Let's start with you!
Yes, he put a convincing Hitler on the screen. But the problem with al those 'historical' movies is, of course, is it true? Dunkirk, Pearl Harbour, A bridge too far, countless movies (and books, and series) are wll-known examples. But movies like U-571, convincing like they may seem, are way off the hstorical facts. Still they have shaped our perceeption of history. That worries me.
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He had a solid career as a German speaking actor with one of his famous parts actually being the angel coming to earth in Women's Wenders "The Heaven over Berlin" which was ripped off and redone as "City of Angels" with Nicholas Cage playing his part.
However, his impression of Hitler actually was pretty good and authentic. He prepped himself thoroughly for the part also utilising a famous secret recording of Hitler having a regular conversation. Downfall is a pretty impressive movie and a good display of the insanity of the Nazi ideology.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Long live Hitler, Hitler is dead.
The best one: https://youtu.be/PivpCKEiQOQ
I like how I can't post a code snippet here but the lameness filter allows this.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Some would, no doubt, find it in poor taste, but done properly it could be a humorous tribute that echoes around the web.