Movies and Films
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RE: Nazism-Hollywood style
Posted by:
Clark
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Date: July 18, 2001 05:03PM
<HTML>Better cruel idiots than cruel professionials.
My beef with the Hollywood standard is that they give too much to the \"Nazis.\" Some of this stuff would make great recuitment material for Neo-Nazi organizations. To give their bad guy image an edge, Hollywood makes them look better off than some of our heros.
Take \"Enemy at the Gates\". I beleive the showing of Russian soldiers being machine gunned by their own troops was a mistake.You don\'t see the Germans doing that.
Plus the Russians are vulgar. Dirty as hell. They are lead by inept officers who kill each other and themselves every five minutes.
What about the German sniper? When he arrives, he is riding a special train, thumbing calmly through a book, and has a bottle of champaine by his side. He brings food to buy favors(such as having his boots shined) and information from the local populace. Futhermore, he seems decent and reasonable.
Although we do see German soldiers being wounded, killed and scavaging the city. I never got the sense that they were suffering in Stalingrad.
So what do I make of this? Based on the movie, the Germans seem very well off and the Russians are backstabing brutes. Which side would you choose?
Remember, this might have been like it was for the Russians. But, in terms of a movie, it detracts from the heros in our film. They don\'t feel like they are repulsing a invading army. In fact, it feels more like they are supporting a government that is more evil and life hating than the Nazis.
In the movie \"Stalingrad\", the German soldiers are cold, starving, scared and in a constant state of pain. Even that film had time to show the Germans shooting their own people and they even kill a child. Those images would disuade people away from that kind life. It adds to feelings that a Nazi government should never ever rise again.
Clark</HTML>
My beef with the Hollywood standard is that they give too much to the \"Nazis.\" Some of this stuff would make great recuitment material for Neo-Nazi organizations. To give their bad guy image an edge, Hollywood makes them look better off than some of our heros.
Take \"Enemy at the Gates\". I beleive the showing of Russian soldiers being machine gunned by their own troops was a mistake.You don\'t see the Germans doing that.
Plus the Russians are vulgar. Dirty as hell. They are lead by inept officers who kill each other and themselves every five minutes.
What about the German sniper? When he arrives, he is riding a special train, thumbing calmly through a book, and has a bottle of champaine by his side. He brings food to buy favors(such as having his boots shined) and information from the local populace. Futhermore, he seems decent and reasonable.
Although we do see German soldiers being wounded, killed and scavaging the city. I never got the sense that they were suffering in Stalingrad.
So what do I make of this? Based on the movie, the Germans seem very well off and the Russians are backstabing brutes. Which side would you choose?
Remember, this might have been like it was for the Russians. But, in terms of a movie, it detracts from the heros in our film. They don\'t feel like they are repulsing a invading army. In fact, it feels more like they are supporting a government that is more evil and life hating than the Nazis.
In the movie \"Stalingrad\", the German soldiers are cold, starving, scared and in a constant state of pain. Even that film had time to show the Germans shooting their own people and they even kill a child. Those images would disuade people away from that kind life. It adds to feelings that a Nazi government should never ever rise again.
Clark</HTML>
