Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]DOWNFALL was really a great film I remember seeing it in the theater as if it was yesterday. Lots of examples people did the Bunker set piece the great Alec Guinness a more notable case but Bruno Ganz really showed them all up on Downfall. It may get to be for a a film actor a variant of doing King Lear for a stage actor. I love it when the cast the usual suspects so they really look like the guys. These guys really looked cartoonish enough even without putting in extra comedic content. Hess, Goebbels, Braun, Himmler, Bormann they can get to look Damon Runyon like. With guys looking like that running a government that should have been a tip off right there. A list of 141 examples of Adolf on film: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027857/ Notable examples: Countdown to War (1989) (TV) Played by Ian McKellen Tin Pan Alley Cats (1943) Played by Mel Blanc (as Hitler) The Magic Face (1951) Played by Luther Adler Is Paris Burning? (1966) Played by Billy Frick The same unheard of actor seem to play him over and over again. As maybe they look like him. Fritz Diez seemed to have played the role a hundred times as did Billy Frick To Be or Not to Be (1983) Played by Roy Goldman (as Hitler) That's Adequate (1989) Played by Robert Vaughn (the man from uncle) Full Frontal (2002) Played by Nicky Katt (as Hitler) Jackboots on Whitehall (2010) Played by Alan Cumming (as Hitler) On 5/11/13 9:30 PM, "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote: > Not for everybody ;-) > > john > >> -----Original Message----- >> >> Adam, >> >> Like every other DVD I have purchased, it is available on Netflix. >> >> Ken >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> I think it's more a tribute to the film than any sort of put-down. The >> scene >> is >> incredibly evocative, even without speaking any German at all the >> intensity >> just leaps off the screen. >> >> This is Hitler, after all, arch villain of modern times, going completely >> off >> the >> wall. Using all that mania seems perfectly logical. >> >> And Ken - yes, I remember the Cowboys version. I'm not sure if it's the >> first. >> There just has to be a web site that tracks these. >> >> And I need to watch "Downfall" again. It's been too long. And, what the >> heck, >> "Das Boat" as well. As a submariner it hit all the right buttons. It was >> like >> an >> instructional video. >> >> adam >> >> On May 11, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> >> >>> Der Untergang (Downfall). >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_(film) >>> >>> I feel for Bruno Ganz - he acted one of the best screen performances >>> ever, and it's perpetually taken off like this. Is parody a sincere >>> enough form of flattery? >>> >>> M >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/