Hitler is upset about Odysseus

[Merlinsky]

http://theaspiringhorseplayer.com/20...-dream-endeth/

This new video (hopefully it's still up, it got yanked on youtube once already now it's on daily motion) is from an infamous viral video using footage of a movie about Hitler to hilarious effect w/altered subtitles. It's particularly funny if you've seen that first one cuz you know what's coming, but in this one, they've got Hitler getting all upset that Odysseus is no longer in the Derby. Let's just say he's not a fan of Tapeta.

[hockey2315]

Very funny.

[tector]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8617454.stm

[Merlinsky]

Thanks for the article. Interesting that there were that many parodies. I've only ever seen the first one. I'll track some of the others down in a bit for a giggle.

[XIIPointStables]

Thanks for posting, good stuff.

[otisotisotis]

f'n hilarious!
That's goes into the top 5 of "Hitler is upset about....."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fAQKa8rU_4

[randallscott35]

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.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

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).

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

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.