Just watched this film tonight for the first time. I had to pause the movie and leave the room after this scene. It was so incredibly chilling. And I don't usually (ever) wince at creepy things in movies but this really unnerved me for some reason.
Much like Nicholson in another role. Sir Ian is so excellent you can see the exact moment that he snaps and he is "back" in Germany in the 1940s. Amazing.
Only Stephen King could write this masterpiece. And what a feast of acting ! Brad Renfo is amazing .He really knows how to use facial expressions in the most chilling way .
"You'd need to be brilliant. Can you do that boy? I know I can" This pops into my mind whenever truths need slight glossing over. Whenever facts need to be portrayed in modestly different light. Or as Macchiavelli would put it..."ends justifying the means"
Its been a long time since I saw this movie and never read the novel. Todd is a smart boy, he was able to find out his neighbor was a Nazi who was able to evade authorities for decades. However, his mistake was underestimating the old man's intelligence which backfired on him. When a criminal can evade justice for such a long time, there's usually a reason.
The uniform is not supposed to be exact. In the book, Dussander notices that it's a cheap, inferior copy rather than the genuine article. It was before the internet so the kid probably just grabbed it from a costume shop or a flea market or something.
I saw this movie a few days ago. I knew the story but I haven't read the book yet. After seeing the traiiler I decided to look up the movie and I liked it a lot. This scene was my favorite. Very powerfull and scary
Absolutely profound. Like a beast waking up. Maybe some of Hitler's soldiers became forever posessed and commited by serving under a man (evil) but so powerful. I could believe it made doing certain things "easier". Disturbing, yet profound.
Oh I encourage you to explore his career He's know now for Gandalf and Magento. He started doing Shakespeare on stage in the 1960s and some of his master classes on that are fantastic! He played the villain in a made for TV version of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" in the early 80s That's when I first saw him. Even has a sword duel at the end. Chauvelin was never done so well
I generally feel sorry for alot of these old Nazis... I mean, YES, some of them were cruel and violent monsters... But I'm sure the vast majority of them did the horrible things they did to avoid being killed themselves. Like, you're in the German army...you're given an order..."Go work that concentration camp and eliminate 500 Jews daily!" WTF happens to that soldier when he refuses...you think he'll just get re-assigned somewhere else? No...he'd have been branded a traitor and executed. So many of them most likely had no choice...
Yep actually alot of German officers hated Hitler and did go against his orders to kill and alot of them were thrown in the concentration camps with the jews or killed on the spot and they made a movie about the German officers that tried to kill Hitler with a brief case bomb but failed since the table saved his life they were hunted down and executed
If this was real u could tell this man loved his job it was leaked that most of the guards and executioners where drugged up to make them do it but the more scary thing is some volunteered and loved it
That quick, graceful spin with those shiny boots was the turning point that brought it all back. I wonder if he heard the Horst-Wessel-Lied being sung in his memory?
My grandfather was in the Totenkopf SS as a guard. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1947 through the Red Cross as an Austrian "displaced person." About eight years ago he asked me to get him a real SS cap like he used during the war. It was something like $700 from this online source. For years he used to wear it at the breakfast table, now he's been placed in an "assisted living" place. I don't know if he wears it there or not.
Rooster1Cogburn respect to your grandad I know most people would read this and condem his actions but u should be proud of him I’m sure he was a great person not every SS or Wehrmacht soldier was evil I bet the cap brought back good and bad memories within his deep self
Roughly equivalent to major. Seeing the costume, he comments that he has been promoted - I think Dussander was not promoted past captain during the war.
@ZuzerHun , 'greatest profit'? I don't believe you know what your talking about. Obviously it was a tragedy, and a most dangerous time to be jewish, but you're words seem to imply conspiricy theories, was that intended or do you also believe in non man-made crop circles?
Chilling scene the boy brought out the monster in the old man my great great grandmother left Germany before Hitler took power my dad said when she would get angry at him she would speak German he didn't understand her supposedly also wrote to a German soldier during the war not sure if it was a lover or a friend I know history pretty well and don't believe Hitler died in the bunker like everyone was made to believe I think he left right before the shit hit the fan along with alot of other German officers I believe this movie is based off of a true story
So good to see the youth of today doing their part to help our senior citizens feel purpose again!
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@@diouranke You must not be very familiar with the American concept of "sarcasm".
@@alexanderfaust4192 she isn’t
The most chilling part is the warning: "Boy be careful, you play with fire."
The creepy thing is that, as soon as he has the costume on and starts marching you can slowly see the old Dussander coming back.
It’s beautiful! Like winding up an old, evil toy.
@@barbarossa1780 a very dangerous, destructive toy
This scene is so intense..... Frightening...
Ian McKellen just a superb actor.
He looks so handsome in that nazi uniform😀
@@LaLadyMedusa Love your name. Hot!
"Boy, be careful...you play with fire."
It was that fire that truly brought the nazi back out in Dussander. Chilling scene.
Just watched this film tonight for the first time. I had to pause the movie and leave the room after this scene. It was so incredibly chilling. And I don't usually (ever) wince at creepy things in movies but this really unnerved me for some reason.
Much like Nicholson in another role. Sir Ian is so excellent you can see the exact moment that he snaps and he is "back" in Germany in the 1940s. Amazing.
It is a fire that drove an old hate into motion. Scary indeed
You actually had to _"leave the room"?_ 😂😂😂 oh please
the thing about this movie most miss, is how the KID is more of a sicko then the old man! tha kid is FUCKED UP!
Gandolf, In The Lord Of The Reich..
I wonder if Prince Harry shopped at the same place?
OOOooo Burn!
You can tell the second he starts to get into it. Truly creepy scene.
Once a SS officer always a SS officer. It’s pure evil.
Only Stephen King could write this masterpiece.
And what a feast of acting ! Brad Renfo is amazing .He really knows how to use facial expressions in the most chilling way .
Whoops that demon almost got out of the bottle.
my grandpa when i tell him to play war
You don’t play war!
Should have said halt! might have got through.
BRAD IS SO GREAT
I always wondered what actual Nazis would have thought of all these American LARPers.
Definitely wouldnt be impresswd with them.
Oh my god it's Gandalf the field gray!
Field gray...🤣😆😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
"You'd need to be brilliant. Can you do that boy? I know I can"
This pops into my mind whenever truths need slight glossing over. Whenever facts need to be portrayed in modestly different light. Or as Macchiavelli would put it..."ends justifying the means"
Its been a long time since I saw this movie and never read the novel. Todd is a smart boy, he was able to find out his neighbor was a Nazi who was able to evade authorities for decades. However, his mistake was underestimating the old man's intelligence which backfired on him. When a criminal can evade justice for such a long time, there's usually a reason.
The hat is for an SS General not an Obersturmbannfuhrer.
In the book he was a former SS at a death camp
The uniform is not supposed to be exact. In the book, Dussander notices that it's a cheap, inferior copy rather than the genuine article. It was before the internet so the kid probably just grabbed it from a costume shop or a flea market or something.
I'm impressed that you know the detail. He did say "I see I've been promoted" but well spotted on your part!
Kraftvolle Szene. Der Junge spielt mit dem Feuer und versteht es nicht.
I saw this movie a few days ago. I knew the story but I haven't read the book yet. After seeing the traiiler I decided to look up the movie and I liked it a lot. This scene was my favorite. Very powerfull and scary
I’m trying to get my 27 year old son to experience this great movie. It’s a treasure. I may or may not tell him Brad Renfro is no longer with us.
Absolutely profound.
Like a beast waking up. Maybe some of Hitler's soldiers became forever posessed and commited by serving under a man (evil) but so powerful. I could believe it made doing certain things "easier". Disturbing, yet profound.
You are 100% correct. Getting inside the head of a Nazi can be a frightening thing.
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hey plz dont hate on Brad Renfro because i love him.
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Gandalf in a nazi uniform. LOL
Oh I encourage you to explore his career He's know now for Gandalf and Magento. He started doing Shakespeare on stage in the 1960s and some of his master classes on that are fantastic! He played the villain in a made for TV version of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" in the early 80s That's when I first saw him. Even has a sword duel at the end. Chauvelin was never done so well
Boy be careful, you shall not march...
I watched this movie years ago, very disturbing to me. It's too bad Brad killed himself and YES he did by OD...
@wuIfsheImut
I know! They're too reasonable! It's boring!
Hugo Boss
book was awseome. I asumed, that movie will be too. Anyone know any site i can watch it?
Great scene, great movie//film, thanks so much for posting this for us all to see and//or watch..!!!
I generally feel sorry for alot of these old Nazis...
I mean, YES, some of them were cruel and violent monsters...
But I'm sure the vast majority of them did the horrible things they did to avoid being killed themselves.
Like, you're in the German army...you're given an order..."Go work that concentration camp and eliminate 500 Jews daily!"
WTF happens to that soldier when he refuses...you think he'll just get re-assigned somewhere else?
No...he'd have been branded a traitor and executed.
So many of them most likely had no choice...
Yep actually alot of German officers hated Hitler and did go against his orders to kill and alot of them were thrown in the concentration camps with the jews or killed on the spot and they made a movie about the German officers that tried to kill Hitler with a brief case bomb but failed since the table saved his life they were hunted down and executed
If this was real u could tell this man loved his job it was leaked that most of the guards and executioners where drugged up to make them do it but the more scary thing is some volunteered and loved it
so you're saying you'd rather take part in genocide than be shot in the head?
@@kitpalmer1583 probably I got a family
@@kitpalmer1583 you forget that humanity’s greatest strength is also it’s greatest weakness. The fight to survive.
That quick, graceful spin with those shiny boots was the turning point that brought it all back. I wonder if he heard the Horst-Wessel-Lied being sung in his memory?
Great scene, although this Todd is like watching Kevin Costner trying to be emotional. He should have yelled at him in German.
I hate that kid.
@MetallicOpeth i dont have it there.
@Joecbg100 I love that Kid
My grandfather was in the Totenkopf SS as a guard. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1947 through the Red Cross as an Austrian "displaced person." About eight years ago he asked me to get him a real SS cap like he used during the war. It was something like $700 from this online source. For years he used to wear it at the breakfast table, now he's been placed in an "assisted living" place. I don't know if he wears it there or not.
Rooster1Cogburn respect to your grandad I know most people would read this and condem his actions but u should be proud of him I’m sure he was a great person not every SS or Wehrmacht soldier was evil I bet the cap brought back good and bad memories within his deep self
Bullshit. Tappan Zee is in New York, not New Jersey.
Gandalf, what are you doing?
That brad renfro was a brat in this movie.
@black2much is a Obersturmbannführer.
Roughly equivalent to major. Seeing the costume, he comments that he has been promoted - I think Dussander was not promoted past captain during the war.
Mr. Magoo
Just read the novella. It’s brilliant.
@Joecbg100 ???? C'EST QU1 FILM
If my parents had caught me speaking to an elderly like this, my mouth would be so swollen. Too bad it’s illegal in the west lol
@ZuzerHun wise words from a wise person, das ist eigentlich die grosse Wahrheit
@wuIfsheImut
While I agree on the snappy and cool bit, "Jewywood"? Seriously?
White Supremacists always have the funniest theories.
@ZuzerHun , 'greatest profit'? I don't believe you know what your talking about. Obviously it was a tragedy, and a most dangerous time to be jewish, but you're words seem to imply conspiricy theories, was that intended or do you also believe in non man-made crop circles?
This whole scene came across as... super gay
Chilling scene the boy brought out the monster in the old man my great great grandmother left Germany before Hitler took power my dad said when she would get angry at him she would speak German he didn't understand her supposedly also wrote to a German soldier during the war not sure if it was a lover or a friend I know history pretty well and don't believe Hitler died in the bunker like everyone was made to believe I think he left right before the shit hit the fan along with alot of other German officers I believe this movie is based off of a true story
Have you seen what he does with the cat? Once a Nazi, always a Nazi.
@@billd3356 yes I own the movie the cat gets away bites the shit out of him to and rightfully so
@@nickshannon7309 Interesting too that the oven runs on gas
How gay.
best scene of the movie... awesome !