I don't get the "wolf" part? I thought she was gonna turn into a werewolf or something, like Teen Wolf, but she never did, which was pretty disapointing, is wolf a reference to something else or was this just false advertising? because i would expect more from a movie this classy
shareI think in terms of an animal mascot, the wolf was a national symbol of nazi germany like the eagle is a symbol of the US.
shareah, i see, well i guess that makes sense then, thank ya sir, or should i say "danke," i still cant help but think what could have been if ilsa would have busted into a giant werewolf at the end and had a godzilla-esque battle with all the tanks that rolled into camp, maybe i'll remake it, all i need would be a budget, anybody have a couple extra mill lying around?
shareCompletely false. The eagle was a symbol of Nazi Germany, as it is of present-day Germany. You should have noticed it on Ilsa's peaked cap and many other places in this film.
shareThe wolf was a symbol of Nazi Germany in the propaganda of many countries fighting Germany in WWII. The US released a series of propaganda cartoons based on The Three Little Pigs, in which Germany played the wolf, and the USSR released a lot of propaganda portraying the Nazis as wolves in sheep's clothing.
sharei just thought it meant she was a bitch
shareHA! well that she was
shareA wolf is a predator--dangerous,tenacious, deadly. I think that metaphor is what they were going for here...could've just as easily called it 'she-devil of the SS.' But the 'bitch' post is good, too...same thing.
shareAH was called "Uncle Wolf" by the Wagner family. His headquarter in Poland was called "Wolfsschanze". But the wolf was never an official symbol of the "3rd Reich".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfsschanze
Indeed. Allegedly Hitler also wrote things with the pseudonym "Wolf" before becoming Imperial Chancellor.
shareWolf in sheep's clothing is a common figure of speech. Wolves are more believable threats to little pigs. So having a wolf attack defenseless little pigs is more believable than an eagle attacking them. Furthermore, the U.S. wouldn't want an eagle to symbolize an enemy country, because it also happens to represent their own.
shareare you implying the US government made "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS?"
shareAbsolutely not. I'm just saying that an eagle is more symbolic of Nazi Germany than a wolf. The film is titled so probably because Ilsa is like a predator (yes eagles are predators to but they tend to prey on smaller animals than wolves) and because wolves are similar to dogs and hence she-wolves similar to bitches.
I hadn't seen the points about predators and bitches were already made.
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A werewolf is literally a man-wolf, with "were" referring to a male, not just any one out of mankind. A he-wolf. In Nordic mythology, Odin-Wotan was accompanied by two wolves, which were considered ideal warriors, and the Nazis in turn made reference to this. "Werwölfe" (werewolves) were trained and armed combattants in civilian clothes (unlawful combattants, as Donald Rumsfeld would have called them) which operated behind enemy lines, sabotaged, attacked and punished "traitors".
Ilsa isn't a he-wulf but a she-wulf (or she-wolf). Of the SS. Geddit?
So, does the title make a whole lot of sense? Not really, no. Let's move on.
Lol, even though Im pretty sure your just joking I have to say that Ilsa was inspired by Irma Grese and Ilsa Koch. Both were women who oversaw two of the most infamous concentration camps to have existed, and who also performed horrible medical experiments on, and tortured, the prisoners in their care. The knickname "she wolf" might be a vague reference to Irma Grese, who was called the Hyena of Auschwitz or to Ilsa Koch who was called the Beast of Buchenwald. I cant remember the source but if I recall correctly one or both of them were called she wolf at one point as well. Posting quota is in place. You are limited from posting again for a short while:
shareThank you for a serious and well researched answer in this thread!
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