Voted 2) As long as they don't make the Holocaust a good thing, I don't mind the rest of his life being portrayed positively. The holocaust is bad, no doubts about it, but I don't mind some of his other policies. (widened railroads, plenty of living space, invading France, etc.)
What if they made it an epic, like Troy or Alexander.
I can imagine the trailer now
(In the deep movie voice) "A country wrongfully sentenced. A people threatened by impurities. Evil lurks all around, behind their clock tower, underneath their beret, evil can strike at anytime. In a time of uncertainly one man dare to dream big, and stand unwaivering in the face of evil...(orchestra music..wa wa wa..)...Coming this summer, see the story of how an ordinary artist became an extraordinary soldier and lived to lead an exceptional people. [words zooming in on the screen: Starring Ryan Phillipe, Faith Hill... directed by James Cameron] (music get's louder).... ADOLF. [this film is not yet rated]
I would watch it, but because I'm a big history fan and I think we need to learn about history, the dirty, dark aspects of it even more so, less we make the same mistakes.
I'd watch it from a historical point of view, but I would be pretty annoyed if the whole film wasn't based on fact or worse, openly tried to make him out as someone he wasn't
I would like to see a movie based on Ian Kershaw's research.
You cannot make a movie about Hitler and ignore the society that created monsters like him. Nationalism and Antisemitism was rampant in these times, even later praised resistance fighters like Count Stauffenberg were convinced Antisemites.
Hitler was not ONLY a bad man. The portrayal of him as a crying and yelling madman ONLY is wrong, too. This was only the end of his way.
So far I have not seen a movie that was really up to the task. I recommend that anyone interested in this period should read Ian Kershaw's excellent books:
BTW, I want to second John HSOG, I share his insights:
4) Hitler was not an evil man. He did evil things. People like to call Hitler an evil man in order assure themselves that it takes some extraordinary and supernatural force to create such a being. They could not feel comfortable if they owned up to the fact that anyone could develop into the kind of person, such as Hitler. Given the right set of circumstances, anyone could choose the same path.
He was evil. No doubt about that. But he was also surprisingly normal. This is the really shocking thing: How a person can become the incarnation of evil itself and cause millions to fight and die.
I have problems with inaccuracies in movies, especially when they deal with history. A "good" portrait is flawed as well as a "bad" portrait as in the first case you run into the danger to marginalise the terror of his ideas and his policy and in the second case you prevent a look at the mechanisms on how this could have happened by putting a Hitler-demon in front who covers the more important aspects.
I am unsure about the exact details, but though Hitler was a runner, he was in combat. He was gassed twice, and won one of his Iron Crosses for captuing fifteen men singlehandedly, or something similar.
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