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Originally Posted by Blitzgal
Oh, I'm totally with you on that. The cartoony monster is one of the ways that we try to distance ourselves from the evils committed by other people -- a way to pretend that they're somehow not human and therefore not at all like us.
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Yeah, exactly. The guy who played him in Valkyrie was not bad, but still too much of a comic book bad guy. And the only other hitler i can think of is Robert Carlyle, which was ridiculous (think of a Jim Carrey looking version of Hitler).
The weird thing is that Hitler in reality was a completely repulsive and psychotic person and even if someone portraid him correctly, he would still look totally un-sympathetic. Yet, when "The downfall" came out, the PC brigade was out in arms, complaining about the "humanization" of nazis.