On Vanishing Point: "Downfall" and the Filmed History of Hitler
Frat boys excluded? I know we're used to those "startling surveys that Americans remarkably don't even know the most obvious shit, but c'mon. People know who Hitler was, and what he did on a basic level.
Posted on May 21, 2010 at 11:52 am
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On Thanks to Susan Miller, Rich People Have Secret Window Into Future
"Make your vacation a pilgrimage all its own to a holy place, such Rome, Nazareth, Tibet, Mecca, Jerusalem or Bethlehem."
One-way ticket to Mecca, please!
Posted on February 10, 2010 at 12:44 pm
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On Some People Send Angry Emails!
Oh, but they kept that shit alive. Those babyboomers -- rebels, all of 'em
Posted on January 8, 2010 at 2:00 pm
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On Vanishing Point: "Downfall" and the Filmed History of Hitler
Agree with irishbreakfast & barnhouse on this one. The meme is built upon and plays with a fictional and a fixed representation of Hitler; it is not directly engaging with Hitler the man, not trying to make any meaning of him, as even an original parody would.
Let's also not give too much credit to Downfall, the movie, either. It is good, in terms of a well-made film, and also a much-welcomed and new representation of the character of Hitler (as man -- sorta) in the grand Hitler genre but it is just a good movie (in a very, very standard sense), not some great service to mankind or tool against fascism. Love Bruno Ganz but it always struck me that having this beautiful, doe-eyed, & politically-uninterested little secretary as the very sympathetic protagonist and at least, in my opinion, representation of a normal-not-insanelikecrazyeyesGoebbels-- was a pretty easy way out for Germany-at-large. Not that I'm of the school that believes the whole population should be deeply and totally accountable but her face was just a little TOO innocently adorable, right? Anyway.