Jox wrote:I'm glad we have an interesting debate here that goes far beyond the "Dolph is the man" and movies subjects.
I´m not qualified to have in depth discussions about anything so I´ll eventually try to steer the thread towards "Dolph fckng Lundgren rulez, dude".
Jox wrote:I doubt the project is gonna be big enough to stir huge controversy but let's wait for more infos first before getting on our high horses...
Don´t worry, we won´t be angry if the film doesn´t get made. We can afford to speculate. In fact, this discussion is interesting enough on it´s own to warrant it´s existence.
MikeR wrote:Which risks becoming an apologist for Skorzeny.
I agree. But I am very much against portraying nazis as "evil". It is misleading and dangerous to pretend that an entire generation of Germans were psychopaths who loved to kill jews and torture people. "Evil" has nothing to do with it. They were just people - sheep, who got led in a terrible direction at a very vulnerable time. By dismissing nazi´s as "evil" we (the people of the world) leave ourselves open for a similar thing to happen again. We learn nothing about the kind of triggers in human nature that can acheive such behaviour if we talk about it as being "evil" or "insane" or whatever (not saying that you do that).
That being said, gloriying the nazi ideology and making heroics out of the horrible actions that were carried out in it´s name would be even more dangerous and utterly irresponsible, as it is one of the darkest chapters in recorded history.
A multi layered portrait of Skorenzy would be the only right way to approach the film, but that WOULD mean allowing him to be an all out nazi, doing some terrible things AND a brave, human being at the same time. Not gonna happen. If it gets done they´ll either whitewash it or have him be a drooling sadistic "vhere iz ze mikkro-film?"-nazi.
I am sure the "old man looking back on his past sins" angle is a very likely possibility.