Posted on 04/22/2011 8:03:14 AM PDT by Olympiad Fisherman
Robert von Dassanowsky, the director of Film Studies at the University of Colorado, acutely noticed back in 2001 that James Cameron's epic movie Titanic is based on the German mountain films that Riefenstahl starred in. Although largely ignoring Riefenstahl's compromised relationship with the Nazis, von Dassanowsky makes a compelling case that Cameron's Titanic is a German mountain film set upon the sea ice of the North Atlantic.
Von Dassanowsky even went so far to strongly suggest that the heroine in the Titanic, Rose, is actually based on Riefenstahl's personal character. He then intimates that Cameron may have indeed directed the Titanic to show how Riefenstahl's untamed feminism eventually overcame her compromised relationship with the chauvinism of the Nazis, represented by her dictatorial fiancé on the ship, whom she never married. In the end, Riefenstahl, like Rose, redeemed herself from the dictatorial Nazi regime.
Even more startling, Cameron also borrowed from Nazi Germany's own version of the Titanic made in 1943. In the Nazi version, the hero of the story is a German officer who ...
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Dances with Wolves, certainly. But also the Pocahontas cartoon. And At Play in the Fields of the Lord. And the Mosquito Coast. And Fern Gully.
The reason it took Cameron 10 year to make the movie was that he had to wait for all the films he wanted to rip off to be finished.
As one of my Jesuit high school teachers taught our class, since only God is perfect, even if a man purposely tries to be 100% evil, 100% of the time, that man will certainly fail and, occasionally, come up with something really good and, sometimes, downright lovable.
There is a very good reason that Cameron is fascinated with Reifenstahl. It’s because she was actually a superb director. The author lists several of her movies, but I wonder if he actually looked at any of them.
She made several dynamic innovations to filmmaking, and was hugely influential in both the very advanced pre-Nazi German film industry, and later, in a secondary way, when many in their film industry fled to the US and ended up in Hollywood.
Directors like Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Fred Zinnemann were all very familiar with Reifenstahl’s techniques and brought them to the US.
And you can see her influence in such movies as The Big Heat, High Noon, and From Here to Eternity.
We got to the moon because of a "Nazi."
The guy standing behind Hitler spent a little too much time in the tanning booth.
I'd like to see some evidence of this acute notice in 2001.
Even soccer can be tolerable if viewed in 3-D.
I'd like to see some evidence of this acute notice in 2001.
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Now, now, don’t get me involved in this.
Eaters of the Dead? Beowulf.
Avatar? Pocahontas.
Timeline? HG Wells.
Aliens? The Thing.
And on, and on, and on...
Yeah, he re-makes great ideas into new packaging and he does it very well. But if the guy ever had a truly original thought I would be surprised.
Sorry...I should have pinged you...
LOL
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Uh, those are both based on Michael Crichton books, and Cameron had nothing to do with either movie version.
"Don't stop him, he's on a roll."
Keep the faith. FR is currently beseiged by adolescent smart alecs. We will find the proper zot to rid the forum of these buzzing gnats.
I am sorry, I had to bring my kids to school and had to run and I just got back.
I think that the article speaks for itself. Contrary to popular opinion, the indigenous Green movement was largely born in the racist forests of Germany going back to the 1800’s. The Nazis incorporated this movement as their own and even trumpeted it as such. This ‘green’ streak of the Nazis ‘fooled’ a lot of people, including Leni Riefenstahl. After the war, much like German environmentalism, Leni and Lucky Lindy became international environmental activists as a way of getting out from under their compromised Nazi past. The point of the article is that this conversion is a very shallow one at best. Leni Riefenstahl has just gone from one bad marriage to the next. Today, the enviromental movement hates people in general. Environmental multiculturalism, in full display in Avatar, still has its roots in the German green volkisch movement of the 1800’s. Volkisch means people when translated literally into English, but it really stands for indigenous racism.
Amen!
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