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Antz and Nazi Germany.....


This movie seems to make many allusions to Nazi controlled Germany. For instance, whenever that psycho general Mandible speaks he talks about ''wiping out the weak and starting anew'' which sounds like the main goal of Adolf Hitler. Not only that but when Mandible tries to exterminate the worker ants because he thinks they are a lesser ''race''. This movie is clearly influenced by naziism and Hitler's ideas. For this reason, I have mixed feelings about the movie.

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what is it with some poeple who thinks tha movies have to have something to do with Hitler, and razism. there is a very similiar board on the matrix movie. but when you think of it, there is something to it, but again to make a "bad guy" who have big plans can always be copmare to Hitler. but maybe then this movie is the porbaganda to learn that what Hilter did was wrong on som many levels.

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Why do you have mixed feelings? Mandible is the villain not the hero.

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The Count

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"

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what is it with some poeple who thinks tha movies have to have something to do with Hitler, and razism. there is a very similiar board on the matrix movie. but when you think of it, there is something to it, but again to make a "bad guy" who have big plans can always be copmare to Hitler. but maybe then this movie is the porbaganda to learn that what Hilter did was wrong on som many levels.



First of all don't type with your nose, secondly it seems like it does have something to do with Hitler with someone who wanted to wipe out a lesser race. Again no one's going to take you seriously (including me) if you spell every second word wrong. Just some advice.

Look what your brother did to the door!

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my bad its a long time sins i wrote that reply.
not that ive been improving, but im only 17 not from an english speaking country, and i dont use a spell corrector, when i type so.. sorry?

but sure the fact that the bad guy wants to kill a spacitic race.
but a lot of movie still have the same thing:

i vent to see 300 yesterday.

the persian king/"god" also want to kill everyone who does not obay his orders.

any bad guy from any movie, who had a lot of power of the society, can easyli snap and want to kill those he find worthless, with the power he precess.

i dont know witch movies you have seen, but try to think them trogh, and see if you cant name a coupole of those bad guys..
they are just as much Hitler like as the bad guy in ANTZ.

once again sorry for the mistypes.



everything can be defined by good or bad. Balance if you will.
life is Balance.
-BenjaMin.

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I think you're reading too far into this.

People who think they know everything are annoying to those of us who actually do.

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I believe the film more correctly portrays Fascism. Very simmilar to communism, but with one profound difference. Communism states that every person in the "colony" is equal, with no social classes. In Fascism, there is no equality. A tiny, ruling elite recieves the benefits of production, and the non-royal, non-milital people were considered compltetly insignificant and worthless.

In Antz ( we discussed this in my

"I'd rather be his whore than your wife"World History course) leans towards Fascism. Like in thew opening scenes, when Z is talking to the psychaitrist, the psychaitrist says " you're absolutely right, you are insignificant!"


"I'd rather be his whore than your wife"
- Titanic

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