The Pro-Nazi video was surely a propaganda video because all it did was emphasize how happy it was to serve. They showed clips after clips of male bonding and fun and glorified the troops. If it was a documentary, it would have shown the beginning to end story; this would be enrolling, learning, killing, torturing, and etc. It would have to show the truth and remove the cheerful and glorious music.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Joyous music...?
"Triumph of the Will" and "Night and Fog" were two of the same movies, except they came from the opposite spectrums. The picture, the numerous shots and angles, music choice, and approach was all the same; the difference was that one were Pro-Nazi's while the other Anti-Nazi's. Each had extreme messages showing how dramatically horrible the Nazi's were while other emphasized the great joy and glory. They used extreme shots after extreme shots of happy individuals with joyous music, and on the flip side horrific piles of dead individuals with nulling music.
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You think that the approach was the same?
What about how Resnais utilizes color, like black and white w/ color shots? What about the way that Resnais utilizes film from other sources, such as Riefenstahl?
At the time of Riefenstahl's film, the Nazi Party was just coming to power. Triumph of the Will just looks at an event. As I posed to Ivan, is there a social function of events, or rituals?
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