Just watched this film tonight for the first time. I had to pause the movie and leave the room after this scene. It was so incredibly chilling. And I don't usually (ever) wince at creepy things in movies but this really unnerved me for some reason.
Much like Nicholson in another role. Sir Ian is so excellent you can see the exact moment that he snaps and he is "back" in Germany in the 1940s. Amazing.
Only Stephen King could write this masterpiece. And what a feast of acting ! Brad Renfo is amazing .He really knows how to use facial expressions in the most chilling way .
"You'd need to be brilliant. Can you do that boy? I know I can" This pops into my mind whenever truths need slight glossing over. Whenever facts need to be portrayed in modestly different light. Or as Macchiavelli would put it..."ends justifying the means"
Its been a long time since I saw this movie and never read the novel. Todd is a smart boy, he was able to find out his neighbor was a Nazi who was able to evade authorities for decades. However, his mistake was underestimating the old man's intelligence which backfired on him. When a criminal can evade justice for such a long time, there's usually a reason.
That quick, graceful spin with those shiny boots was the turning point that brought it all back. I wonder if he heard the Horst-Wessel-Lied being sung in his memory?
I saw this movie a few days ago. I knew the story but I haven't read the book yet. After seeing the traiiler I decided to look up the movie and I liked it a lot. This scene was my favorite. Very powerfull and scary
Absolutely profound. Like a beast waking up. Maybe some of Hitler's soldiers became forever posessed and commited by serving under a man (evil) but so powerful. I could believe it made doing certain things "easier". Disturbing, yet profound.
The uniform is not supposed to be exact. In the book, Dussander notices that it's a cheap, inferior copy rather than the genuine article. It was before the internet so the kid probably just grabbed it from a costume shop or a flea market or something.
Oh I encourage you to explore his career He's know now for Gandalf and Magento. He started doing Shakespeare on stage in the 1960s and some of his master classes on that are fantastic! He played the villain in a made for TV version of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" in the early 80s That's when I first saw him. Even has a sword duel at the end. Chauvelin was never done so well
My grandfather was in the Totenkopf SS as a guard. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1947 through the Red Cross as an Austrian "displaced person." About eight years ago he asked me to get him a real SS cap like he used during the war. It was something like $700 from this online source. For years he used to wear it at the breakfast table, now he's been placed in an "assisted living" place. I don't know if he wears it there or not.
Rooster1Cogburn respect to your grandad I know most people would read this and condem his actions but u should be proud of him I’m sure he was a great person not every SS or Wehrmacht soldier was evil I bet the cap brought back good and bad memories within his deep self
I generally feel sorry for alot of these old Nazis... I mean, YES, some of them were cruel and violent monsters... But I'm sure the vast majority of them did the horrible things they did to avoid being killed themselves. Like, you're in the German army...you're given an order..."Go work that concentration camp and eliminate 500 Jews daily!" WTF happens to that soldier when he refuses...you think he'll just get re-assigned somewhere else? No...he'd have been branded a traitor and executed. So many of them most likely had no choice...
Yep actually alot of German officers hated Hitler and did go against his orders to kill and alot of them were thrown in the concentration camps with the jews or killed on the spot and they made a movie about the German officers that tried to kill Hitler with a brief case bomb but failed since the table saved his life they were hunted down and executed
If this was real u could tell this man loved his job it was leaked that most of the guards and executioners where drugged up to make them do it but the more scary thing is some volunteered and loved it
Chilling scene the boy brought out the monster in the old man my great great grandmother left Germany before Hitler took power my dad said when she would get angry at him she would speak German he didn't understand her supposedly also wrote to a German soldier during the war not sure if it was a lover or a friend I know history pretty well and don't believe Hitler died in the bunker like everyone was made to believe I think he left right before the shit hit the fan along with alot of other German officers I believe this movie is based off of a true story
@ZuzerHun , 'greatest profit'? I don't believe you know what your talking about. Obviously it was a tragedy, and a most dangerous time to be jewish, but you're words seem to imply conspiricy theories, was that intended or do you also believe in non man-made crop circles?
