Hitler's Back?

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Germans are going crazy for this Hitler movie

THE newest comedy in Deutschland these days is a send-up of none other than Adolf Hitler — and Germans are loving it.

The film Er ist wieder da (Look Who’s Back in English), based on Timur Vermes’ homonymous novel, took the top spot at the German box office this weekend, grossing $4.1 million AUD and surpassing Pixar’s Inside Out — a film that’s about as far away from a Hitler comedy as possible.
In the satirical Look Who’s Back, Hitler wakes up in present-day Berlin with no memory of any events after 1945. Then, mistaken for a famous comedian, he’s given his very own TV show. Naturally...

Source: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/new-movies/germans-are-going-crazy-for-this-hitler-movie/news-story/32efac88d3cb8d7360553792add5973c

(Trailers with english subs, may contain some strong language, apologies)

[video=youtube;AtW1Lq5c04E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtW1Lq5c04E[/video]
 
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didymos said:
Germans are going crazy for this Hitler movie

THE newest comedy in Deutschland these days is a send-up of none other than Adolf Hitler — and Germans are loving it.

The film Er ist wieder da (Look Who’s Back in English), based on Timur Vermes’ homonymous novel, took the top spot at the German box office this weekend, grossing $4.1 million AUD and surpassing Pixar’s Inside Out — a film that’s about as far away from a Hitler comedy as possible.
In the satirical Look Who’s Back, Hitler wakes up in present-day Berlin with no memory of any events after 1945. Then, mistaken for a famous comedian, he’s given his very own TV show. Naturally...

Source: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/new-movies/germans-are-going-crazy-for-this-hitler-movie/news-story/32efac88d3cb8d7360553792add5973c

(Trailers with english subs, may contain some strong language, apologies)

[video=youtube;AtW1Lq5c04E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtW1Lq5c04E[/video]
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I thought Backstreets back....:rolleyes:
 
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didymos

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I thought Backstreets back....:rolleyes:
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[video=youtube;1MLry6Cn_D4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MLry6Cn_D4[/video]

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I almost wish this was a new genre of film, bringing historical figures forward in time.

On a different but not unrelated note, I'm shocked that this is as popular as it is in Germany. Everything I've ever read about the country indicated that they tend to sweep fifteen years of their history under the rug.
 
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Desdichado said:
I almost wish this was a new genre of film, bringing historical figures forward in time.

On a different but not unrelated note, I'm shocked that this is as popular as it is in Germany. Everything I've ever read about the country indicated that they tend to sweep fifteen years of their history under the rug.
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I don't know, my grandmother who experienced both WWI and II in England and Belgium, her words still haunt me saying Germany will start WWIII.
Maybe she was a little bit partial, ya think?
 
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Desdichado said:
I almost wish this was a new genre of film, bringing historical figures forward in time.

On a different but not unrelated note, I'm shocked that this is as popular as it is in Germany. Everything I've ever read about the country indicated that they tend to sweep fifteen years of their history under the rug.
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To me,this day in age its totally plausible.They have totally rewritten history anyway so why not Hitler.Totally misunderstood guy.Im sure it had something to do with Mother issues. You have to been more open minded......

signed, far left liberals
 
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We must remember that its wrong to hate.. We cant really say anything bad about hitler or Nazis because that's clearly hate speech.
 
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I don't know, my grandmother who experienced both WWI and II in England and Belgium, her words still haunt me saying Germany will start WWIII.
Maybe she was a little bit partial, ya think?
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It seems that Americans still alive from that era are more likely to say similar things about the Japanese, but not the Germans. I've never spoken with a WWII veteran from the European Theater that feared another German go at global domination. Those personally touched by the Japanese either by fighting them firsthand or being related to someone who did tend to maintain a pretty sour opinion of that country.

Even in the era of Subaru, sushi, and sudoku.
 
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I almost hope Jihadis and their sympathizing peoples/nations will be pacified in a similar way. I pray that I'm the crazy old man in a nursing home that croons on about radical Muslims only to be met with my children rolling their eyes.

I doubt it.
 
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Desdichado said:
I almost hope Jihadis and their sympathizing peoples/nations will be pacified in a similar way. I pray that I'm the crazy old man in a nursing home that croons on about radical Muslims only to be met with my children rolling their eyes.

I doubt it.
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My father in law fought in the Pacific theater, his view on the Japanese was exactly that.
Of course with centuries more experience at warfare only an atomic bomb could've stopped them.
 
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My father in law fought in the Pacific theater, his view on the Japanese was exactly that.
Of course with centuries more experience at warfare only an atomic bomb could've stopped them.
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Except for the Barbary Pirates, the Japanese are probably the closest thing to the sort of enemy we face today. If I lived back then, I would've prayed for an assignment in Europe.
 
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Desdichado said:
I almost wish this was a new genre of film, bringing historical figures forward in time.

On a different but not unrelated note, I'm shocked that this is as popular as it is in Germany. Everything I've ever read about the country indicated that they tend to sweep fifteen years of their history under the rug.
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It's not a new genre at all, but rather one of the oldest. Could cite Shakespeare, but instead some high intellectual Americana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFy17auuK08
[video=youtube;sFy17auuK08]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFy17auuK08[/video]

In regards to the Hitler comedy and trailer in the OP. I get the wit here with it, at least from what the trailer shows me, but probably wouldn't go out of my way to see it. Reminds me that as far as dictator parodies go I still haven't seen the Interview yet.
 
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Oh I thought this thread was in reference to Trump being in favor of having every American Muslim carry an ID, if he becomes president. Didn't really work out for Hitler though.
 
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[h=1]Hitler’s Plan to Kidnap the Pope[/h] pope_pius_in_prayer.jpg images_q_tbn_ANd9_Gc_Q4_Xj8_Ff_Whx6_Hwq3_Xz_TZDFz_Ph7_x_Rg.jpg

(Catalyst, June, 2007)As soon as Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was ousted from power on July 25, 1943, Adolf Hitler began hatching a plan to kidnap Pope Pius XII and plunder the Vatican. Clearly, the Fuehrer thought, the “Jew-loving” pope had encouraged King Victor Emanuel II and some rival fascist leaders to overthrow his Italian puppet.The following day Hitler called for an urgent meeting of his military leaders. They must liberate Mussolini and return him to power, he cried. And “we must occupy Rome” and “destroy the Vatican’s power, capture the pope, and say that we are protecting him.” The pope might even have to be killed.About six weeks later, on September 13, SS General Karl Wolff, the SS commander in Italy, received a phone call from his boss, SS Chief Heinrich Himmler, orchestrator of the Holocaust. Himmler, Wolff told me, bellowed that the Fuehrer wanted to see him urgently...
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[h=2]More Proof of Hitler's Plan to Kill Pius XII[/h]It has long been conjectured that Hitler had ordered the SS commander in Italy, General Karl Wolf, to seize the Vatican and take the Pope.

Dan Kurzman wrote about it in his 1997 book "A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius the XII," which is based on interviews with Wolf himself. Wolf's accounts, however, could never be verified.

New evidence published today by Avvenire now points to the role of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (the Third Reich's main security office) in devising a plot to take out the Pope.

The newspaper cited the testimony of Niki Freytag Loringhoven, 72, the son of Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, who during World War II was a colonel in the High Command of the German Armed Forces.

According to the son, days after Hitler's Italian ally, Benito Mussolini, had been arrested at the orders of King Victor Emmanuel III, Hitler ordered the Reichssicherheitshauptamt to devise a plot to punish the Italian people by kidnapping or murdering Pius XII and the king of Italy.
more details here

 
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GodIsSalvation said:
It's not a new genre at all, but rather one of the oldest. Could cite Shakespeare, but instead some high intellectual Americana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFy17auuK08
[video=youtube;sFy17auuK08]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFy17auuK08[/video]

In regards to the Hitler comedy and trailer in the OP. I get the wit here with it, at least from what the trailer shows me, but probably wouldn't go out of my way to see it. Reminds me that as far as dictator parodies go I still haven't seen the Interview yet.
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I'm not denying that time travel is an old theme. I'm thinking of something more biographical in nature. A focus on the character and how they would have interacted with modern society beyond the superficial "Oh! Hey there, George Washington."
 
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didymos

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Desdichado said:
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On a different but not unrelated note, I'm shocked that this is as popular as it is in Germany...
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While the movie is based on the novel, much of it is in the style of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat, with Oliver Masucci — the actor playing the Führer — having unplanned encounters with unsuspecting German bystanders....

Source: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/new-movies/germans-are-going-crazy-for-this-hitler-movie/news-story/32efac88d3cb8d7360553792add5973c

So it's comedy and shouldn't be taken too seriously. It's actually (partly) commenting on the rise of extreme right in germany.

 
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FluffyPancakes said:
Oh I thought this thread was in reference to Trump being in favor of having every American Muslim carry an ID, if he becomes president. Didn't really work out for Hitler though.
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I think any true comparison would be that muslims are like Nazis ..and Trump is like FDR trying to warn America that we are going to have to face these monsters down.
 
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I think any true comparison would be that muslims are like Nazis ...
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Ask yourself: could I have lived in the 3d Reich? Then ask yourself: could I live in a sharia governed country? Ofcourse Hitler was evil incarnate, but nazism might still be the better of two evils.
 
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