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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

The face that shot a hundred Nazis.

[–] FuryMaker@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Directed by Quentin Tarantino.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 63 points 2 days ago

Because she's a revolutionary, and Batman is a billionaire defending the status quo. You can't have people being inspired into revolution.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 190 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

16-year-old seduces adult nazi to shoot him in the woods during military occupation is slightly less family friendly than Spiderman, at least from what I remember about Spiderman

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 136 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

At least, it would have been a nice side plot in "Inglorious Basterds".

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 72 points 3 days ago

Oooh, a reference to her, even in passing, would've been neat.

"The Nazi bastards are on high alert. Soldiers keep going into the woods to bang some broad and end up banged themselves. Stupid fuckers keep going out there. I guess their dicks override orders"

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would argue that it is very family friendly if you aren't a Nazi.

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[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Not if she says, "For Uncle Ben!" before pulling the trigger.

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[–] philpo@feddit.org 59 points 3 days ago (4 children)

A few days ago Margot Friedländer died at 103. Her entire closer family died in the holocaust after the USA, China and Brasil denied then immigration visa. She, as a teenager, was able to hide for quite a while but was finally ratted out by a jewish Gestapo spy and deported to a concentration camp. She met her future husband in the KZ and immigranted to New York later on, living a regular life until her husband died in 1997. She then started to write and moved back to Germany in 2010 (as a 89 year old!) and visites countless schools to talk about her experiences with the students and received countless medals, prices and acclaim. She was pictured on the German Vogue magazine in 2024 and later on continued her speeches until two days before her dead - her last speech was at the celebrations for the end of the WW2 in Germany.

We need more motion pictures about people like her. Not about another billionaire superhero who is unable to work in a team to save the world.

Because she was real. And much more powerful. I had the honour to attend a event she spoke.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 71 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (15 children)

They'd much rather you follow the legendary tales of Batman whose complex moral dilemma hinges upon not directly getting blood on his own hands even if it means keeping mass murderers alive to continue to terrorize the population.

Batman as a superhero is basically a libertarian wet dream: a defense contractor billionaire who may be complicit in all forms of mass violence but maintains the thinnest veneer of plausible deniability personally.

What's hilarious is even in most of the fiction the libertarian wet dream of Gotham is a dystopian shit hole.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Please don't. I know Hollywood and it will become.somr over dramatized turd piece that has little to do with what actually happened

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 10 points 2 days ago (10 children)

..because she was a child soldier. She was doing this aged 14.

We tend not to glorify tales of the WW2 where war crimes were committed.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

We do tend to do tales of tragedy though. She was the victim on two different counts, as well as being the hero (recruited as a child soldier, and defending against hostile invasion. Heroic for shooting Nazis).

Depicting someone defending against the bad guys while being taken advantage of by the good guys and meanwhile shooting pedophile Nazis feels like a shoe in.

Also, it wasn't technically a war crime at the time. The conventions around not using child soldiers are shockingly recent. Was still a bad thing to do, but only by modern standards.
We also tend to glorify war crime stories depressingly often, so I'm not sure that point even stands.

[–] StannisDMannis@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

So Kick-Ass it, make it about her going and out killing these SS pedos who are following a 14 year old into the woods.

And we totally do, look at Inglourious Basterds.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Inglorious basterds is fiction.

[–] DimFisher@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Because they can't make her movie character older than what it was?!

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] DimFisher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Of course it is, you don't have to be exactly accurate

[–] StannisDMannis@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

So Kick-Ass it, make it about her going and out killing these SS pedos who are following a 14 year old into the woods.

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[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Quentin Tarantino were the heck are you with this?!?!

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 18 points 2 days ago

The main actress will definitely lead them through the forest with no shoes on.

[–] Peacecraft@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

He couldn't think of a way to fit a scene focused entirely on the protagonist's feet into the story.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 47 points 3 days ago (23 children)

Hard to draw out repeatedly flirting with nazis and killing them

The movie would suck as they try to tie in a love interest and plot

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 40 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Two chance events prevented Gibson from succeeding: First, Mussolini happened to turn his head to look at a group of nearby students who were singing a song in his honor. This caused the bullet to graze the bridge of his nose rather than hit him square in the face. Second, though Gibson fired another bullet, it lodged in her pistol. By that point, she had already been dragged to the ground by a mob.

History's really rhyming here.

[–] phubarr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

-Benito Mussolini, 1932

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Because the superhero movies are thinly veiled propaganda for billionaire exceptionalism. Empowering the average person is disruptive to your peasant caste you're not allowed to talk about openly. It is such an engrained cultural taboo you can't even register what I am saying as real, despite it being so obvious that there are classes of people completely disassociated with life as you know and live it. The only exceptional people are the exceptionally greedy and exceptionally unethical. Ms. Oversteegen is a hero like Luigi, someone that stands above our station in life. Such stories are not told or popularized much at all.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

She's like Dexter, the best kind of serial killer

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is the type of hero we need in modern times. Sadly, she would be the wrong gender for most of the MAGA politicians.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Also, being an adult would turn the majority of them off

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[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Becau$e rea$ons.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

does nobody google anything before making memes?
here’s a movie about her: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt29931730/

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

PRE-PRODUCTION

Call me when it’s real.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

well ok, When It’s Real… nice to meet you.

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[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

Teaching us how to handle incels for 80 years. RIP.

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