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Jerry Bruckheimer’s comment about her is the plain and honest truth. She was a genius and her films were technically astonishing and highly influential. She pretty much invented sports photography. Praising her technical accomplishments is no different than opera houses holding Wagner festivals. Are the people who applaud and attend proto anti-semites? Of course not and neither was the Oscar crowd. Nothing she did after the war suggests that she had anything thing of the true believer in her...just an opportunist. She’s certainly more guilty than Eisenstein who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time but I wouldn’t put her in the same group with murderers.

"She’s certainly more guilty than Eisenstein who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time but I wouldn’t put her in the same group with murderers."

Did you read the article this post was from? In the article: "A mass of secretaries, for example, typed the orders to kill and filed the details of massacres. This placed them at the very centre of the Nazi murder machinery, but they, like so many others, chose to shut their eyes and benefit from their proximity to power."

As I mentioned in a previous post, how are they more culpable than what Reifenstahl did? They didn't gas anyone, just as Leni didn't. But they certainly contributed to the Holocaust. Just as Leni did.

"Praising her technical accomplishments is no different than opera houses holding Wagner festivals."

As for Hollywood cheering on Leni and it's right to cheer on the artist and ignore their sins. Not the first time I've heard this. Just a question, how come just the year before when Elia Kazan (a director who happened to actually make great movies in Hollywood. Unlike Refeinstahl who never made one Hollywood movie) went to receive his lifetime achievement Oscar did so many of the Hollywood intelligensia decry and boo him? Was not his art more important than his political stands?

Funny how many of the people Kazan outed were proved to be commie operatives via the Venona papers. But then, Kazan went against the Hollywood left, a big no no. Only he didn't make any propoganda films that lead to brainwashing people into believing they were the superior race and had a right to exterminate people.