Yeah, that's suboptimal. I'm trying to think of any other named fully committed Nazis. I guess the Gestapo leader but he's only in the one scene
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
I feel like if I was trying to full throatedly defend/Stan JJR, which I don't feel it really needs, but if I was, I'd say the lack of full true believers is kind of the point, because it's trying to show us a society like ours where everyone is slowly becoming complicit
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
Where even the Resistance thinks anti-Semitic jokes are hilarious
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
Rebel Wilson's character is more or less straight-evil - she has the kids doing suicide runs at the end (or is she the one who had the 19 kids? I forgot...)
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The one who says the one line I thought was a bit too on the nose, too ("we have to kill everything that looks different!") I had to rationalize that with "this must be a slightly older Jojo with a somewhat unreliable memory looking back"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @the_moviebob
Well yeah the whole movie is because he's an unreliable narrator, hence Hitler appearing in it
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Isn't there an implication the damage to his face is way worse than how we see it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @the_moviebob
I thought it definitely was more damaged, yes, but more figured that was just a theater-indulgence for the PG-13 or to (hypocritically) make him a more marketable protagonist
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("theater-indulgence" being my term for whatever it's called in stage theater when Macbeth is a Latina woman or whatever but we're not meant to actually think the character is a Latina woman, etc)
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Brecht called it the distancing effect (Verfremdungseffekt)
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Well, that's a subset of the more general term "defamiliarization" which may be more what you mean Casting without regard for physical resemblance isn't necessarily for the purpose of messing with the audience but at minimum it's making the audience do some interpretive work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @the_moviebob
Right, I mean another example would be bringing out Macbeth's head but it's a basketball. That's probably closer to the specific case we're discussing
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