Update: It seems Constantin Film AG has contacted YouTube about using their video, and YouTube has started removing them. Too bad, this was probably the best publicity this film could have gotten. Another sad case of the entertainment industry not understanding the consumer.
For those who follow YouTube like it’s the trash-heap of pop-culture (like we do), you may have come across one of these crazy sub-titled Hitler videos. It’s actually a scene from an Oscar-nominated German film called Der Untergang (it was released in North American theaters as “Downfall”).
The parodies are too numerous to count, but the formula is the same: Take a scene with Hitler and a bunch of people, a whole lot of drama, and what appears to be some fabulous acting. Add in the ridiculous sub-titles. Voila, cheap laughs!
And every imaginable topic has one of these videos.
In one, Hitler finds out that Churchill has stolen all his Big Macs; in another, Hitler gets banned from Wikipedia.
You get the idea.
Some are quite clever, and some are just plain stupid. Some are quite funny, and some are downright offensive.
