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thomask0 | 9 years ago

Well what's happening with all the rats leaving the ship it feels more like the "Der Ubergang"

For non-German speakers, its a pun on the German name of the the movie Downfall (Untergang), infamous for it's Hitler in the bunker clip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_(2004_film)

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hueving|9 years ago

>infamous for it's Hitler in the bunker clip.

Interesting side-node about 'infamous'. Just because a movie depicts a terrible event or subject (Hitler in this case), it doesn't mean the move itself is 'infamous'. The movie (i.e. the artists) didn't do a terrible deed (e.g. completely misrepresent Hitler as innocent), so in this case the movie is simply "famous for it's Hitler in the bunker clip".

ivraatiems|9 years ago

I think it's more infamous because the clip has been used memetically as a joke on other people/things freaking out about stuff. So the movie's not infamous but the clip is.