Moszkowicz said he didn’t know why the videos were only recently taken down and suggested that it could have been “something on the YouTube end.” “There is no correlation between Internet parodies and sales of a movie, at least not that I am aware of.” “We have not been able to see any increase in DVD sales,” he said. box office and was nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar, had helped the film. Moszkowicz disputed the idea that all the attention to “Downfall,” which grossed $5.5 million at the U.S.
“We feel that they trivialize not only the Holocaust but World War II. “We find them offensive,” said Foxman of the videos.
We are very proud of the film.”Ībraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said the league was “delighted.” The important thing is to protect our copyright. “So we are taking a simple approach: Take them all down. “When does parody stop? It is a very complicated issue,” Moszkowicz said. Jewish organizations have also complained about the tastefulness of the clips, he said.
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Martin Moszkowicz, head of film and TV at Constantin films in Munich, said the company had been fighting copyright infringement for years. Constantin Films, the company that owns the rights to the film, asked for them to be removed, and YouTube complied. On Tuesday, the clips on YouTube, many of which had been watched by hundreds of thousands, even millions, began disappearing from the site. It was the meme that refused to die - until it did. Most any subject could be - and was - substituted, made even funnier by the scene’s intense melodrama, artful staging and timely cutaways. The scene takes on widely different meaning when paired with English subtitles about, say, a late-season collapse by the New York Mets. “Downfall,” a German film released in 2004 about Hitler’s last days, has been adopted for wildly popular YouTube parodies that have spanned mock rants about topics as varied as playing Xbox video games to Kanye West to Apple’s new iPad.Įvery spoof is from the same scene in the film: A furious, defeated Hitler, played by Bruno Ganz, unleashes an impassioned, angry speech to his remaining staff, huddled with him in his underground bunker. NEW YORK - Adolf Hitler, for years a vessel of frustration in a popular Internet meme, has been quieted.