Trivia / Hitler Rants

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• Approval of God: In a 2010 interview with New York magazine, Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel found the parodies funny, and around the time of the interview saw 145 of them.
• Ascended Fanon: Of a sort, the meme was so viral and popular that it was recreated in the film Look Who's Back.
• Fan Community Nicknames: The people who make the parodies are known as Untergangers, which is derived from Der Untergang, the German title of Downfall.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Most Untergangers would resort to downloading scenes from the film, or the whole film itself, in lieu of buying the original, unsubtitled German release. It's pretty much the same case with the spinoff parodies as getting scenes from lesser-known titles legitimately is a chore in itself.
• Missing Episode: Many parodies have been lost for numerous reasons including the creators being MIA or not having a backup for when one of their videos gets taken down.
• Recycled Script: The parodies' depiction of Mallory would later become the basis for Unterganger HitchcockJohn to introduce the character of Firecracker in Dino Attack RPG. Firecracker (which came from a nickname Juan gave Mallory before learning his real name in his original film) took the idea of a psychotic demolitions expert with a coat full of explosives and ran it up to eleven. Sadly, it didn't turn out quite as successful.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: Many of these parodies are derivative works and Downfall's distributor Constantin Films blocked the videos from YouTube at one point, though some of them are back up, as parody was ruled fair use. As stated above, the director actually enjoyed them.
• Sequel Gap: HRP released "Hitler and the return of the helium slow motion problem" five years after the original.
• What Could Have Been:
  • After YouTuber Brandon Hardesty made his own Bunker Scene reenactment, he got requests to release it again without subtitles so parodies could be made without using the film's footage. He did so, but the blocks ended around that time, so it was only used for one crossover.
  • Some Untergangers released "parody outtakes" videos which featured parodies that are scrapped or never released.

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