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Oct 15, 2019 · In “Jojo Rabbit,” Taika Waititi doesn’t play the historical Hitler in Jojo Rabbit. Rather, he plays a buffoonish, make-believe version of the Führer who serves as an imaginary best friend...
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- Day 1: Wartime
- Day 2: Postwar Fables
- Day 3: The Absurdist Turn
- Day 4: Young Hitlers
- 5: Hitler 2.0
1939: “Hitler Has Only Got One Ball,” British popular song 1940: The Great Dictator, directed by Charlie Chaplin (Rent on Amazon Prime) (Watch on Kanopy with login) (Watch for free on the Internet Archive) 1940-1: “You Nazty Spy,” “I’ll Never Heil Again,” by the Three Stooges 1943: “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” Disney, featuring Donald Duck Early satires o...
1958: Dr. Seuss, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories Frustrated by American isolationism, Theodor Seuss Geisel, then a successful advertising artist and part-time children’s book author, became a political cartoonist for the magazine PM in 1940. (“I had no great causes or interest in social issues until Hitler,” Seuss told his biographers.) In a br...
1967: The Producers (Rent on Amazon Prime) 1969: “Mr. Hilter and the North Minehead By-Election,” sketch in Season 1, Episode 12 of Monty Python’s Flying Circus (Watch on Netflix) 1983: “To Be or Not to Be (The Hitler Rap)” (Watch on YouTube, oh please do) 1990: Heil Honey I’m Home!, British sitcom written by Geoff Atkinson, directed by Juliet May....
1987: Mein Kampf, play by George Tabori 2002: Max, directed by Menno Meyjes (Rent on Amazon Prime) The sui generis example of The Producers aside, movies about Hitler in the 1970s and ’80s tended to be serious-minded, conventional biopics. But Mein Kampf, a play by Hungarian Jewish playwright George Tabori, who escaped the Holocaust as a young man ...
2012: Timur Vermes, Look Who’s Back 2015: Look Who’s Back, directed by David Wnendt (Stream on Netflix) 2006–present: So, so many Downfallmemes In the novel Look Who’s Back and its film adaptation, Hitler time-travels from 1945 to the 2010s. The first-level humor is obvious—“what if Hitler, but internet?”—but the darkest parts of the satire lie in ...
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Jojo Rabbit is a 2019 anti-war comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi, adapted from Christine Leunens's 2008 book Caging Skies. Roman Griffin Davis portrays the title character, Johannes "Jojo" Betzler, a ten-year-old Hitler Youth member who finds out that his mother ( Scarlett Johansson ) is hiding a Jewish girl ( Thomasin ...
In a remarkable debut performance, Davis navigates his character’s bratty outbursts and ensuing pangs of remorse with ease while preserving the fidgety vim of a kid who still sees this wrecked...
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Nov 11, 2019 · Making of ‘Jojo Rabbit’: How Taika Waititi Scored The Beatles’ Music for His Hitler Satire. Nobody wanted to make the film about a boy and his imaginary friend the Führer: "People say it ...
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Oct 18, 2019 · The writer and director of “Jojo Rabbit” — who also plays a cartoonish Adolf Hitler in a comic coming-of-age story about a Nazi youth who discovers a Jewish girl hiding in his attic — tells...
Oct 16, 2019 · Jojo Rabbit centers on a 10-year-old boy who joins the Hitler Youth. Writer and director Waititi, who is from New Zealand, is half-Jewish and half-Maori. He plays the boy's imaginary friend,...
