Charlie Chaplin lampooning Hitler’s bombast and fragility in “The Great Dictator” (1940) marked one of comedy’s all-time “truth to power” moments. But 80 years after WWII, what does it mean to laugh at fascists in a time when they seldom don the old brownshirt?
With the release of Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit”—a would-be charming comedy about a Hitler youth whose imaginary friend is der Führer—the latest Be Reel Podcast asks why, how, and when skewered Nazis are funny.
Continue reading ‘Jojo Rabbit,’ ‘The Producers,’ And The Legacy Of Nazi Satires [Be Reel Podcast] at The Playlist.
With the release of Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit”—a would-be charming comedy about a Hitler youth whose imaginary friend is der Führer—the latest Be Reel Podcast asks why, how, and when skewered Nazis are funny.
Continue reading ‘Jojo Rabbit,’ ‘The Producers,’ And The Legacy Of Nazi Satires [Be Reel Podcast] at The Playlist.
- 10/23/2019
- by Chance Solem-Pfeifer
- The Playlist
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