• AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The only movies that portrayed Nazis correctly are the Indiana Jones movies and Come and See. One for portraying the Nazis as a bunch of incompetent buffoons and the other for portraying the Nazis as a bunch of incompetent genocidal buffoons.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Verhoeven should have made Doogie Howzer’s character into a fucking clown with a superiority complex that does stupid shit on camera while barking about how smart he is. That may have saved us decades of budding nazis getting unintentional inspiration.

    • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Reposting one of my old comments:

      Fundamentally satire of fascism doesn’t work because fascist ideology revolves around the idea that you’re a loser made weak by the removed other but can be made strong and cool by doing all the violence.

      If fight club had a scene where Tyler Durden tried to ask a girl out in queue to the McDonald’s breakfast menu, pissed himself out of nervousness, and then broke into tears in front of everyone. All that would change is there’d be a fascist org called Piss Boys whose initiation would involve drink a lot of water before queuing up for the world’s greasiest hash browns.