Another Holywood Boo Boo - Page 5

David Hayward · #41 02-07-2012, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by robtek

Which was inspired by the writings of Henry Ford! Also a antisemit.

Does that make it ok?

David Hayward · #42 02-07-2012, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Attila

And what about the Russians? Why they dont eliminated Stalin?

This doesn't just apply to Germany. Lots of countries have done despicable things, for which they have no excuses. The US has slavery and it's treatment of the native population. There are no excuses for any of that stuff.

KG26_Alpha · #43 02-07-2012, 05:56 PM

Get back on topic fast please.

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Original post in case you missed it and went straight to off topic.

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Originally Posted by Richie

I'm surprised at this one. Although there were a lot of brutes as far as treatment goes in POW camps as far as the Japanese Army goes here's something that totally threw me for a loop. I was listening to CBC radio this morning, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for those not in the know. Anyway a man from Victoria BC was on David Bucham was his name. He was talking about the movie Empire Of The Sun and how the whole situation at the camp was backwards. Hayashi the man who was the head man at the camp according to testimony after testimony and there were many of them was a total gentleman. Those were the words used. Anyone who got sick got the best care possible. No one was ever harmed. The reason these Boo Boos bug me is people watch these films and take them for fact. Especially when they're made by someone like Spielberg

Sternjaeger II · #44 02-07-2012, 07:18 PM

I think the conversation can stay civilised, all I would like to say on the off-topic is that an effective regime is one that effectively controls and indoctrinates a country, allowing for no aggregation to counteract it. One of the saddest mottos of Italian Fascism was "punish one to educate 100".

Being a Nazi doesn't automatically being evil, at least not in a political point of view: Nazi is a shorten version of national-socialist, which still happens to be the main political wave in Germany. It's the evil that was perpetrated under Nazism that killed, not the political creed per se. Governments and propaganda did a great job with this though, that's why in the UK a Socialist (or in the US a "commie") are considered "bad".

But as Alpha said, there's no point in sliding into politics, especially when people can't maintain a civilised conversation on the topic.
(EDIT: Sorry Alpha, saw your post only now..)

Having said this, David, I'm sure you heard of Twitter and Facebook, believe it or not they're two of the main forms of immediate communications for rebels in Libya and Syria.

Now back to the OT: can you guys think of other movies where "the baddies" are the protagonists?