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Old 09-16-2012, 02:32 AM   #141
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Default Re: Infinite Worlds: Movies for your Alternate Earths!

Gas is the most horrid thing developed for war destroying people and civilizations and yet in my case it saved my soul. - Adolf Hitler 1933

Darwin Kampf (1933) is the movie version of Hitler's 1919 book of the same name. Inspired by Hitler's gas induced fever dream near the end of the Great War the movie presents the tale of Corporal Az Gruber as he and his fellow soldiers storm the capital city of the Leader.

Gruber's Squad is a collection of racial stereotypes and yet these normally negative traits are presented as assets. Jude's moneylending skills provide the squad with the needed capital to buy from the people oppressed by the Leader rather than stealing from them. Zud's savagery (due to being the descendent of Zulu warriors) is key to discovering the one weak point that all the totally identical (and previously believed invincible) Supreme Soldiers of the Leader have and so on.

The horrors committed in the name of national, racial and culture purity Gruber and his men see are nothing to the final horror of who or rather what the Leader is really is.

Hitler's insistence in playing both the roles of Az Gruber and the Leader was viewed as a mistake but in the exchange between the two characters it can be seen as the right decision as it captures the surreal quality the novel originally had.


Some people take the exchange between Az Gruber and the Leader as evidence for Hitler's acceptance of racial equality but nothing could be further from the truth as both argue for the separation of the races and their inequality but for vastly different reasons.

Az Gruber argues racial mixing could destroy the unique evolved assets of each race while the Leader argues such mixing would degrade the super human quality of his pure race of Supreme Soldiers. It is in the treatment of other races that the true difference between Az Gruber and the Leader becomes clear--the later sees them them as fit only as slaves or extermination while the former sees them as an asset to be careful nurtured and utilitied for the betterment of all.

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Old 09-15-2014, 06:40 PM   #142
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Default Re: Infinite Worlds: Movies for your Alternate Earths!

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Here's a TV series from another world.

http://www.kryptonsite.com/brucewayne/

"Bruce Wayne"- think of it as Smallville. but only its set in Gotham and about Bruce Wayne becoming Batman over a 7 year run. ...
This may be a closer alternate than we realized ...
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