I don't know if something is put in the water in Cannes which affects what people say or do, but there is always some strange stuff that happens when people get a whiff of that sea air and get drunk on good wine. In the latest instance, the director of Melancholia, Lars von Trier, said at a press conference that at one point he thought he was Jewish, but now, he sympathizes with Hitler and that he is also a Nazi. Huh?
"I really wanted to be a Jew and then I found out that I was really a Nazi, because my family is German. And that also gave me some pleasure. So, I, what can I say? I understand Hitler. I think he did some wrong things but I can see him sitting in his bunker. I'm saying that I think I understand the man. He is not what we could call a good guy, but yeah, I understand much about him and I sympathize with him."
While he was saying all of this, Kirsten Dunst was trying to hide and probably wish she could get away to some other place very quickly. Would make a great Southwest Airlines commercial. Want to get away? Lars then went on to say that he wanted to make a long form porn film with Kirsten.
I think the blind yesterday about the party girl in Cannes was Kirsten Dunst so Lars may be closer to realizing his fantasy of making a porno with Kirsten than you'd think.
ReplyDeletegood to know where he stands. makes it quick and simple for me to add to the list of the people whose work i boycott.
ReplyDeletei do hope, however, to be present for the day when is deeply affected and ashamed he ever stated that. asshat.
I can totally see Lars being a Nazi because anyone who's ever watched one of his movies can see how much he hates humanity. (And his audience.)
ReplyDeleteWhat Pookie said. What an idiot.
ReplyDelete@looserdude - first laugh of the day! well put
ReplyDeleteHe has since apologized for his comments and said he is not a Nazi or antisemitic. He said he was egged on.
ReplyDeleteHow do you get egged on to say you're a nazi and you sympathize with hitler at a press conference? Was there a gun aimed at him?
ReplyDeleteMaybe he was high on something...
ReplyDeleteHigh just like Hitler. Have to agree his movies are horrible!
ReplyDeleteHe's a weirdo. Always has been. He's made some amazing movies in the past but now he just wants to shock people ("Antichrist", anyone) and I think this comment was just that. Said for shock value. And I have to say, I am SO FUCKING TIRED of that remark. "say what you will about Hitler, but he DID fix Germany's economy!". Um...even if he DID "fix Germany's economy", it's kind of cancelled out by the whole "genocide" thing. Hitler had NO REDEEMING QUALITIES! NONE!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's something my unbelievably ignorant father in law would say.
Anyway. "Breaking The Waves" destroyed me, and "Dancer in The Dark" almost had the same effect...but after that he sort of went downhill. Mental issues and all.
@ Looserdude - So true.
ReplyDeleteAnd Lars, on behalf of all Jewish people go "F" yourself. What a self important ass you are for saying such a awful thing. Hitler is burning in Hell and deserves to be.
Apology not accepted. Really, if you say something that stupid, you need to own it until you redeem yourself by doing something spectacular for humanity. Oh, wait, he might think treating people like animals, torturing, starving and gassing them is 'spectacular', so never mind. :( Ijit!
ReplyDelete*sigh* What is wrong with him? And how does he keep finding people to finance and release his increasingly bad movies? I thought in the film biz "you're only as good as your last success"? Von Trier hasn't made a decent film in decades. Still love "The Kingdom," though.
ReplyDeleteBTW - not defending him, just reporting the updated info. Agree with the rest of you.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely had to be on something. None of what he was saying made any sense.
ReplyDeletePorn + long form = No thank you! One good scene can last a whole decade.
ReplyDelete@Maja. Great post. I do admire his films - Breaking The Waves and Dancer In The Dark (which should have gotten Bjork some acting trophies I feel)and I'm one of the few that appreciated Dogville (didn't care for Manderlay.) but - when is this Hitler talk going to end? It seems to be the way to get attention - "Hey, I want my name in the news - I'll say something about Hitler." You'd think after Megan Fox called Michael Bay Hitler and she lost her 4 million dollar Transformers paycheck, others would get a clue and refrain from it. You do not talk about Hitler. I think over the past few years it's become the "hip" thing to do among younger people. They should learn their WWII history. Hitler was Bin laden X a million. The way he ordered SS soldiers to kill Jewish babies should be something anyone should remember the next time they make a flippant Hitler comment.
ReplyDeleteLars Von Trier is always provocative with journalists:he loves the scandal(see his movies)
ReplyDeleteI'm convinced Von Trier says these outrageous things purely for headlines and press attention. The truth behind any of what he says is irrelevant, he just wants to be noticed. It's tiresome.
ReplyDeleteI agree Pomme. Von Trier knows he isn't going to get the Pirates Of The Caribbean or Transformers audience, so I guess he feels it doesn't matter what he says. It's not going to affect his bottom line.
ReplyDeleteLet's face it, to a lot of very rich people, the fact that Hitler supposedly "fixed" Germany's economy is more important than millions of dead people.
ReplyDeleteCalm down please... Nothing he said means he is a nazi, most of it was said with humor and love. Has anybody seen "The downfall", a movie that follows Hitler in the bunker. I think this is where Trier sympathises with Hitler. I kind of felt sorry for him too, untill I remembered it was Hitler. Trier is not a nazi but an artist that is interested in cruelty, lust, and love. Off course he finds Hitler interesting as he finds a lot of other charachters interesting. So please calm down...
ReplyDeletePeople are more than the headlines they get. Trier made the antinazi movie: Europa. And most of his movies goes completly against the nazi ideology. Most of his public comments in Denmark are extremely anti-facist.
ReplyDeleteHe did not say this to provoke, he was specifically asked about it by a journalist and started to ramble. He is totally kidding and of course delicate danish humor is not appreciated by the stuck up world press.
Gah! Jesus Lars! WTF?? Please remember to take your meds with you the next time you speak to the press away from home. I want to be able to watch "Breaking the Waves" without thinking you are the next incarnation of Mel. Kthanxbai!
ReplyDeleteAt first I just rolled my eyes at von Trier's pretentious-auteur act, and then, when John C. Reilly walked off the set because von Triers filmed the killing of a donkey for Dogville, my annoyance boiled over into hatred. This Hitler business is just the icing on a very nasty cake. He's a loathsome piece of shit.
ReplyDeleteApologies -- the film was Manderlay, not Dogville. My hatred stands, though.
ReplyDeleteIt is kind of interesting how this is played in different media outlets. According to scandinavian press, he was making fun of a reporter and made it more than obvious he didn't mean it. Bad taste to joke about that subject, perhaps, but not really something anyone should take seriously. He apparently also said a bunch of other strange stuff just to mess with them.
ReplyDeleteI think I've mentioned once or twice before that I am taking a Holocaust and Genocide class at my university...
ReplyDeleteI have had the priveldge to meet survivors of the Holocaust, Rwandan Genocide, and listened to the music and pursued the artwork of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide. I have met with the person only UN member who refused to leave Rwanda and stayed to end up saving hundreds of Tutsi children from the Hutus. I have learned more about the Cambodian Genocide and the American Genocide than I ever knew and as the semester winds down I just have this to say in regards to this peice of shits cavalier Hitler comments:
History has shown that it is not the Hitler's or the Pol Pots of the world that really make Genocide happen- its the ordinary bystanders, the foot soliders, and so on who help to facilite mass death. So I feel particularly sensitive about comments like the ones he is putting out there because I KNOW that the Genocides I mentioned happened within 100 years of each other. I know that if you combined every Genocide it would equal over 100million people dead and for this person to throw out comments about sympathy or trying to get into the mind of someone who orchestrated the death of so many is simply abhorrent to me. There is no doubt this would have been one of those 'ordinary bystanders' or worse who let Genocide happen. I know because Genocide prevention needs to start with yourself- you cant make comments like these because how does that start the healing process or help to make positive changes? For the people in Darfur and the people in Libya we cannot condone this type of callous apathy to the architects whove made targeted mass killings a thing that continues to happen.
- Oh and Melody the First- TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, this is why the Right Wing rich people are often okay with loosening regulations on environmental things as well- in order to save money or appease those who hold influential purse strings.
*damn, meant PERUSED the artwork
ReplyDeletesorry
@Sunnyhorse - didn't know that about the donkey. Thanks. Von Trier is officially dead to me.
ReplyDeleteWhen my slightly hungover, still sleepy brain read this headline on my phone this a.m. I read Verne Troyer instead of Von Triar. I was very confused for a moment.
ReplyDeleteRegardless whether the Hitler statements were said in jest most people don't take to kindly to Nazi/Hitler sympathizers.
How did he get away with killing an animal for a movie?!