I don't care what anyone says, that meme never gets old. I wish it would come back.

Grow some skin, people.

coco ebert: I don't care what anyone says, that meme never gets old. I wish it would come back.

Worse downfall parody ever.

I liked the one where Hitler learned that his order to go on a series of offensives hadn't been carried out, and he freaks out and calls his generals a bunch of traitors, then promises that, the war now being lost, he'd kill himself before fleeing Berlin.

BKITU: I liked the one where Hitler learned that his order to go on a series of offensives hadn't been carried out, and he freaks out and calls his generals a bunch of traitors, then promises that, the war now being lost, he'd kill himself before fleeing Berlin.

Yeah. Classic.

lol he was the Party's social media tsar! How the hell did he think this was a good idea?

It'shiatler ffs. You don't compare him to another politican unless you are a republican.

coco ebert: I don't care what anyone says, that meme never gets old. I wish it would come back.

Here's one of Hitler getting pissed that all the Downfall parodies were getting taken down.

Lego_Addict: lol he was the Party's social media tsar! How the hell did he think this was a good idea?

It'shiatler ffs. You don't compare him to another politican unless you are a republican.

You know who else hated the filter?

You know who else hated parodies of Downfall?

s1ugg0: coco ebert: I don't care what anyone says, that meme never gets old. I wish it would come back.

The funny part is I ended up watching that movie (and really liking it) because of those memes. And I never would have watched a foreign language film. And now they are sending out take down notices left and right. That meme was the best advertising they ever could have gotten.

I saw it when it first came out and have been singing its praises ever since, but nobody had ever heard of it until the meme even though it was actually a pretty controversial movie. It got lots of flack for "humanizing" Hitler when it was first released.

Inigo_Montoya: LazarusLong42: You know who else hated parodies of Downfall?

Helen Keller?

You mean the Jewish girl that hid in the attic?

Civil Discourse: HotWingConspiracy: ox45tallboy: Inigo_Montoya: LazarusLong42: You know who else hated parodies of Downfall?

Helen Keller?

You mean the Jewish girl that hid in the attic?

I think that was Annie Oakley.

No. Annie Oakley started the Red Cross.

No. youre thinking of Marie Curie

s1ugg0: rynthetyn: I saw it when it first came out and have been singing its praises ever since, but nobody had ever heard of it until the meme even though it was actually a pretty controversial movie. It got lots of flack for "humanizing" Hitler when it was first released.

That's funny because I came away with a completely different view point. I felt it accurately portrayed him as psychopath. Everything was someone else's fault and he kept believing fictitious armies would come to his aid. I really liked the very end where it was subtly implied that he knew the truth and that's why he killed himself.

While that last part is some dramatic licensing. From what I've read he really did blame the Generals and the German people for the failure of the war and he was hell bent taking as many of his own people with him as possible.

Oh, I definitely think that it portrayed him as a psychopath. But it portrayed him as a human psychopath and not merely a monster, and people didn't like that.

Personally, I think it's far more powerful to portray him as a human who did absolutely horrible things, because if a human can do it and not just a monster, then it's even worse. Because if a monster does unspeakable things, well, that's what we expect, they're a monster. When we acknowledge that it was a human being that inflicted horror on his fellow human beings, then we open the possibility that anyone could be that evil given the right set of circumstances.

rcantley: jackiepaper: Civil Discourse: HotWingConspiracy: ox45tallboy: Inigo_Montoya: LazarusLong42: You know who else hated parodies of Downfall?

Helen Keller?

You mean the Jewish girl that hid in the attic?

I think that was Annie Oakley.

No. Annie Oakley started the Red Cross.

No. youre thinking of Marie Curie

No, Marie Curie's the cook who gave a bunch of people Typhoid fever a century ago.

No, that was Mata Hari.

LordPomposity: Civil Discourse: rcantley: jackiepaper: Civil Discourse: HotWingConspiracy: ox45tallboy: Inigo_Montoya: LazarusLong42: You know who else hated parodies of Downfall?

Helen Keller?

You mean the Jewish girl that hid in the attic?

I think that was Annie Oakley.

No. Annie Oakley started the Red Cross.

No. youre thinking of Marie Curie

No, Marie Curie's the cook who gave a bunch of people Typhoid fever a century ago.

Well, I looked it up. The Jewish girl who hid in the attic was actually Ethel Rosenberg.

Didn't she disappear while flying solo across the Pacific Ocean?

No, silly, that was Susan B. Anthony

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