[Polybius]

"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."

I'd like to see some evidence of this acute notice in 2001.

August 19, 2002 .... TIME Magazine .... In Her Own Image: ...... Few movie fans realize how many of Riefenstahl's ideas and images have slipped into recent film. In addition to Verhoeven, George Lucas echoed her in this year's Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones; snippets of Triumph of the Will appeared in Oliver Stone's The Doors; and James Cameron's Titanic took many details from her little-seen 1954 film Tiefland , about a woman who falls under a tyrant's control but eventually finds freedom. "I was sitting in the theater thinking, 'I've seen these scenes somewhere before,'" says film scholar Robert von Dassanowsky. "Isn't that the hallmark of a truly influential artist, that her work survives and influences, even detached from her name?"

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Tiefland (Lowlands) is a 1954 film that Leni Riefenstahl scripted, directed, acted in, and edited. .... Pedro, a shepherd, is sleeping in his Pyrenean mountain hut ....

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

So basically it was this one same guy, who, amazingly, is a Leni Riefenstahl expert, who acutely noticed it.

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