nazis are the bad guys AGAIN? - Anthropoid (2016) Discussion

[–] filmklassik 8 years ago

Hard to do a WWII movie set in Europe without having the Nazis being the bad guys.

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[–] JDZander 8 years ago

I think the OP meant: another WWII movie, Jesus...

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[–] pjpoconnell 8 years ago

JDZander: You don't understand. Filmklassik is a neo-Nazi.

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[–] Will1988 8 years ago

You could make one from the German / Axis perspective and have the Soviets as the badguys.

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[–] LPforever49 8 years ago

The soviets were the bad guys.

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[–] Will1988 8 years ago

Both the Nazis and the Soviets were the bad guys. Everyone caught in between them got shafted.

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[–] aforandy 8 years ago

Both the Nazis and the Soviets were the bad guys.

For the first 18 months of the war we thought the Soviets were Nazis, because they'd signed a pact with each other.

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[–] Will1988 8 years ago

Yeah. But the world clearly knew that that was a peace that would not last. But yes, for a time they were strange bedfellows who carved up Poland together.

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[–] kyussnz 8 years ago

soviet won ww2,

thereby allowing the us in to mop up.

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[–] Portrait-of-a-Statue 8 years ago

Don't worry, OP. Trumptards will be the bad guys soon enough.

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[–] nickm2 8 years ago

I'm sure the lads & lasses at Kwai, & Cabanatuan were just waiting for Zhukov to break down the camp gates...

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[–] libertarian45 8 years ago

re German perspective: Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron"...

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[–] Will1988 8 years ago

And the 1993 'Stalingrad'. But most movies are from the allied perspective.

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[–] peggygeordie 8 years ago

"Das Boot" !

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[–] akshayug05 8 years ago

Best movie from german side "Stalingrad"

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[–] nickm2 8 years ago

German movies about dubya dubya too are too wimpy! God! Those guys in 'Stalingrad' act so mopey & depressed, they probably couldn't take over a children's daycare center, nevermind almost all of Europe west of Urals! Long & short of it is, a Non German needs to make a good movie about Germans during the war-like Peckinpah did with Cross of Iron.

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[–] Dnaamg08 8 years ago

That movie is "Stalingrad".

Excellent movie you should check it out.

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[–] Will1988 8 years ago

I own it! lol. And yes, it is Stalingrad, but there was another one that came out a year or two ago also called "Stalingrad", that focuses on the Soviet perspective. It is heavily propagandized, and has many historical inaccuracies.

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[–] peggygeordie 8 years ago

"Enemy at the Gates" was from the Soviet perspective - excellent film with a great James Horner score.

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[–] politicidal 8 years ago

^^^^ contrarian troll fail.

What's missing in movies is same as in society: a good sense of work ethic and living up to ideals.

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[–] libertarian45 8 years ago

WW2 - the most significant event of the 20th Century (not the death of Princess Diana as claimed by a poll during Y2K). The loss of life was staggering. The attempted genocide. the ushering in of the nuke age. Thousands of, as yet, untold stories of amazing courage, cowardice, good and evil.

In the case of Op Anthropoid, the commandos were successful, but, the German reaction was brutal - an entire city virtually wiped out of existence.

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[–] chrissso 8 years ago

WW2 - the most significant event in THE HISTORY OF MANKIND ... 60 to 80,000,000 dead ... nuclear bombs used.

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[–] VVolfySnackrib 8 years ago

Another WW2 movie? No, you dumbass. It's another PROPAGANDA FILM.

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[–] Gothbag 8 years ago

OMG. I can't believe what I just read.

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[–] jtodd3916 8 years ago

Your comment shows your ignorance about how horriific that war really was. My own grandfather was at Normandy and won a Purple Heart. This movie shows only a very small portion of the atrocities committed by the Nazis and the heroics of not only the allied countries involved, but the sacrifices and true heroism of individual people, without which, things could very easily have had a different result. The result of this was war was a lot closer than most people realize.

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[–] persecuted 8 years ago

war is horrific

tell that to the 20 million russians who died

or the 10 million chinese who died

yet we don't see any movies about the above mentioned suffering do we, yet literally 1000 movies have been made about the "evil" Germany's acts against Jews

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[–] nickm2 8 years ago

I have it on good authority that Russia & China have their own film industries....

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[–] joegerardi-1 8 years ago

Sure we do. Yi jiu si er (1942) is just to name one, has Adrian Brody in it, and deals with the starvation deaths of almost 2 million Chinese. John Rabe is another. You just have to look for them.

And remember: how many Russians were killed by the Soviets just to spark others into fighting, or because they were too slow running into enemy machine gun fire, and the Commissar shot them down?

Stalin was responsible for 20 million deaths before the war and 16 million more deaths after the war.

Mao was responsible for 45 million after was war, in his "great leap forward." He was the greatest murderer of all time, and only slightly less efficient at wiping people out than the Black Plague or the Spanish Flu epidemic.

So don't expect people to raise them up on a pedestal- their halos are quite tarnished.

..Joe.

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[–] persecuted 8 years ago

I agree, it's like beating a dead donkey over and over ......Jesus (spanish pronunciation)!

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[–] loco_73 8 years ago

Yes...it should have been space aliens instead......oh wait...

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