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AH Fascist Movie Night

  • 13-07-2019 7:05pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    Who's up for watching the highly rated Triumph of the Will (87% rotten tomatoes and 4/5 imdb)?

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6uajey
    Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) is a filmed record of the 1934 Nazi Party Convention, in Nuremberg. No, it is more than just a record: it is an exultation of Adolf Hitler, who from the moment his plane descends from Valhalla-like clouds is visually characterized as a God on Earth. The "Jewish question" is disposed of with a few fleeting closeups; filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl prefers to concentrate on cheering crowds, precision marching, military bands, and Hitler's climactic speech, all orchestrated, choreographed and illuminated on a scale that makes Griffith and DeMille look like poverty-row directors.
    -https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/triumph_of_the_will


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  • Registered Users Posts: 27,391 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
    - Friedrich Nietzsche

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,131 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Leni riefenstahl may have worked for the Nazis but she was a great director. She led a very interesting life.

    Fcuk Putin. Glory to Ukraine!



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Who's up for watching the highly rated Triumph of the Will (87% rotten tomatoes and 4/5 imdb)?

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6uajey


    -https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/triumph_of_the_will

    I did Nazi that film before. I hope it's Göring to be good. I'll be führious if it's not.

    Etc.




  • I would suggest Chaplin's "The Great Dictator". One of my favourite documentaries.




  • Illinois Nazis? I hate Illinois nazis.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,919 ✭✭✭The Floyd p


    I did Nazi that film before. I hope it's Göring to be good. I'll be führious if it's not.

    Etc.

    You should watch it, it's gas.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Das Boot, extended edition.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,592 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Starship Troopers would be the perfect movie, the left can enjoy the satire, the right can just not notice it, and the center can enjoy the action


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 nuyil simp


    we're about due a pun thread


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,059 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    American History X

    put your teeth on the curb


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    RoboCop is my favourite ultra violent satire.


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,017 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I watched it previously.
    Its a fascinating piece of historical film.
    Don't worry - critical thinking will see you through.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 136 ✭✭FartyBlartFast


    Who's up for watching the highly rated Triumph of the Will (87% rotten tomatoes and 4/5 imdb)?

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6uajey
    Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) is a filmed record of the 1934 Nazi Party Convention, in Nuremberg. No, it is more than just a record: it is an exultation of Adolf Hitler, who from the moment his plane descends from Valhalla-like clouds is visually characterized as a God on Earth. The "Jewish question" is disposed of with a few fleeting closeups; filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl prefers to concentrate on cheering crowds, precision marching, military bands, and Hitler's climactic speech, all orchestrated, choreographed and illuminated on a scale that makes Griffith and DeMille look like poverty-row directors.
    -https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/triumph_of_the_will
    Its a nasty, awful movie but much like Birth of a Nation in the US (which basically promoted lynching black people for mixing with white women) from a purely technical viewpoint it is excellent and represented many huge steps forward in how films would be made from that point on. So it might be nasty in terms of content, but it is highly culturally significant.

    The far right and nazis, to be fair to them, have always been highly adept at using new technology and messaging systems to their advantage (another example is that the inventor of the megaphone I think it was, went to his grave feeling responsible for the holocaust because Hitler used it to drown out dissenting voices and spread his own message much more efficiently in Germany).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    nuyil simp wrote: »
    we're about due a pun thread

    It's hitlarious.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,252 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    RoboCop is my favourite ultra violent satire.

    I have a special place in my heart for Robocop and Starship Troopers.

    Glad the below is probably in development hell:

    https://www.indiewire.com/2012/06/producer-of-unwanted-starship-troopers-remake-says-new-film-will-be-less-violent-more-patriotic-than-original-251581/


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,538 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Iron sky




  • RoboCop is my favourite ultra violent satire.

    It was satire?!


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,340 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    It was satire?!

    Social satire on the critique of corporate greed. It's set in a world where corporations run everything even police and criminal gangs.

    Verhoeven was master of satire.


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,880 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Just throw on Fox News for an hour or so and save yourself the hassle.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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