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Old 04-21-2010, 07:50 PM
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NEW YORK (AP) — Adolf Hitler, for years a vessel of frustration in a popular Internet meme, has been quieted.

“Downfall,” a German film released in 2004 about Hitler’s last days, has been adopted for wildly popular YouTube parodies that have spanned mock rants about topics as varied as playing Xbox video games to Kanye West to Apple’s new iPad.

Every spoof is from the same scene in the film: A furious, defeated Hitler, played by Bruno Ganz, unleashes an impassioned, angry speech to his remaining staff, huddled with him in his underground bunker.

The scene takes on widely different meaning when paired with English subtitles about, say, a late-season collapse by the New York Mets. Most any subject could be — and was — substituted, made even funnier by the scene’s intense melodrama, artful staging and timely cutaways.

It was the meme that refused to die — until it did.

On Tuesday, the clips on YouTube, many of which had been watched by hundreds of thousands, even millions, began disappearing from the site. Constantin Films, the company that owns the rights to the film, asked for them to be removed, and YouTube complied.[/bquote]

What a shame, some very original content was spawned by that scene!

As an aside, what a masterful acting performance by the fella who played Hitler...probably one of the most believable acting I've ever seen.
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Old 04-21-2010, 08:02 PM
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NEW YORK (AP) — Adolf Hitler, for years a vessel of frustration in a popular Internet meme, has been quieted.

“Downfall,” a German film released in 2004 about Hitler’s last days, has been adopted for wildly popular YouTube parodies that have spanned mock rants about topics as varied as playing Xbox video games to Kanye West to Apple’s new iPad.

Every spoof is from the same scene in the film: A furious, defeated Hitler, played by Bruno Ganz, unleashes an impassioned, angry speech to his remaining staff, huddled with him in his underground bunker.

The scene takes on widely different meaning when paired with English subtitles about, say, a late-season collapse by the New York Mets. Most any subject could be — and was — substituted, made even funnier by the scene’s intense melodrama, artful staging and timely cutaways.

It was the meme that refused to die — until it did.

On Tuesday, the clips on YouTube, many of which had been watched by hundreds of thousands, even millions, began disappearing from the site. Constantin Films, the company that owns the rights to the film, asked for them to be removed, and YouTube complied.[/bquote]

What a shame, some very original content was spawned by that scene!

As an aside, what a masterful acting performance by the fella who played Hitler...probably one of the most believable acting I've ever seen.
Oh wow I didn't realize that was Bruno Ganz.

He was great in Wings of Desire (a Wim Wenders film).
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Old 04-21-2010, 09:20 PM
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On Tuesday, the clips on YouTube, many of which had been watched by hundreds of thousands, even millions, began disappearing from the site. Constantin Films, the company that owns the rights to the film, asked for them to be removed, and YouTube complied.[/bquote]

What a shame, some very original content was spawned by that scene!

As an aside, what a masterful acting performance by the fella who played Hitler...probably one of the most believable acting I've ever seen.
I suspect that somebody forgot to thank Jeff Mende the requisite 30,000 times for something or other that he supposedly did, so the clips had to go.
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