A Clip On Franco's Ear
A freeway in Los Angeles; a goal horn; vuvuzelas; Kayne West; an inexistent cake; the iPad; Oasis breaking up; the deaths of Michael Jackson and Osama Bin Laden; Usain Bolt... all these, and more, have ostensibly annoyed Adolf Hitler.
La Gioconda and The Last Supper, the two paintings that have been most plagiarised and caricatured, are in good company.
The meme from Der Untergang (The Downfall, 2004), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel has been used and abused so many times that most of us can probably move our lips in synchronicity with those of Bruno Ganz and the other actors appearing in the clip.
The WWII epic drama centres on the last ten days of the dictator's life, which he spent in his Berlin underground bunker together with hand-picked aides, which ended in his suicide. The film is based on the book Inside Hitler's Bunker.
Most of the film has been spoofed, but the one in which "Hitler" rants and raves has spawned many satires, even in Maltese. The most recent Maltese one, before the current politically-tainted piece, was by a rock band.
What I do not understand is that, whether Hitler wants a...
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