Posted on 04/22/2011 8:03:14 AM PDT by Olympiad Fisherman
Robert von Dassanowsky, the director of Film Studies at the University of Colorado, acutely noticed back in 2001 that James Cameron's epic movie Titanic is based on the German mountain films that Riefenstahl starred in. Although largely ignoring Riefenstahl's compromised relationship with the Nazis, von Dassanowsky makes a compelling case that Cameron's Titanic is a German mountain film set upon the sea ice of the North Atlantic.
Von Dassanowsky even went so far to strongly suggest that the heroine in the Titanic, Rose, is actually based on Riefenstahl's personal character. He then intimates that Cameron may have indeed directed the Titanic to show how Riefenstahl's untamed feminism eventually overcame her compromised relationship with the chauvinism of the Nazis, represented by her dictatorial fiancé on the ship, whom she never married. In the end, Riefenstahl, like Rose, redeemed herself from the dictatorial Nazi regime.
Even more startling, Cameron also borrowed from Nazi Germany's own version of the Titanic made in 1943. In the Nazi version, the hero of the story is a German officer who ...
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The deal with Leni Riefenstahl is much bigger than most people would care to admit.
The deal with Leni Riefenstahl is much bigger than most people would care to admit.
Very unlikely.
Expand? I don’t know what you’re saying.
It's funny when you see some of his stuff and for a moment you might look at how the technology used is a little dated, and then you remember that when he made some of those things, he had to have the technology invented in the first place.
(Granted, folks like Lucas and Henson actually invented stuff, but Cameron still envisioned what he needed.)
Your question answers itself.
Have you read the entire article, or just the paragraph up front?
You take yourself VERY seriously, don’t you?
That is not what is claimed. It is claimed that it is based on the "German mountain films" (Bergfilme) which is a totally different genre than "Triumph of the Will" or "Olympiad".
".... acutely noticed back in 2001 that James Cameron's epic movie Titanic is based on the German mountain films that Riefenstahl starred in."
The Bergfilme was as popular in the German cinema in the 1930's as the Western was popular in the American cinema in the 1950's.
Be expository if you want people to pay attention to you.
Well done!
“Das Blaue Licht” (aka The Blue Light) is availible at Amazon.com It is well worth $18. http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Light-Leni-Riefenstahl/dp/B000HD1MW0/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1303485767&sr=1-1
No kidding. Rose is Molly Brown.
Though there is the argument that Cameron’s movie career is nothing more than a vehicle to help him find his next wife, I find this analysis a far, far reach.
Oh, that’s right, he was talking about the ‘Avatar’ with the blue people in it, not the robe-wearing/arrow-headed guy. I’m glad I’ve finally got that straight.
But now I have to wonder if maybe “Blue Man Group” was influenced by Leni Riefenstahl.
Movie reviewers get paid to write nonsense. This is a good example. Avatar was an anti-American leftist fantasy, but it was a ripoff of Dances with Wolves, not Leni Riefenstal.
Is your point that Cameron was very influenced by, and incorporates references to Riefenstahl, in his movies?
If that's it, it's not really a very important point.
Riefenstahl was an amazingly influential director. The entire direction of cinema was influenced greatly by her, as it was Georges Méliès or KKK-sympathetic D.W. Griffith.
I’ve never seen Avatar, and I never plan on it. That would take up 3 hrs. of my life I could never get back.
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