News - Hitler is not happy about being parodied

[TheAnimus]

Well if they hurt the brand? If you had some really offensive subtitles up, some people might think less of downfall because they don't understand its a parody?

Maybe thats what they are thinking!

[format]

Idiotic move on the studios part. I bet as tonne of people have bought/seen/rented this film as a result of these clips.

[latrosicarius]

I thought satire and parody were protected ?

Yes, but not by youtube. Youtube takes down whatever it is officially asked to take down.

[latrosicarius]

Idiotic move on the studios part. I bet as tonne of people have bought/seen/rented this film as a result of these clips.

Yes. Which is why i suspect some ornery & irrational 80+ year old execs run the company.

[Biscuit]

by asking for them tobe taken down their are giving themselfs headlines on e-zines such as hexus... win both ways really as the parodys will be back up in no time.

[sleepyhead]

Good things only lasted so long... There will be something along to replace it soon enough.

Personally, as long as those paradoies didn't rip the crap out of the original film I'd say it was a good way to promote the film with zero effort from the IP holders.

Anyhow, roll on the next set of parodies

[Temi_D]

I'd never heard of Downfall untill I'd seen these clips then checked it out! Oh the Irony.


Great film though.

Question is did you pay for it

[Lateknight]

Idiotic move on the studios part. I bet as tonne of people have bought/seen/rented this film as a result of these clips.

Yep, i'm one of them.
Saw the parodies. Found out what film that was from -did watch the original film on youtube - in 13 parts.
BOUGHT the film on DVD - its was that good.(Its only £5)
Also bought 'Sophie Scholl - final days' after watching on youtube. (linked from'Downfall' on Y.T)

Two films I would never have bought otherwise.

[Iron Sights]

Fegeline!!!.....Fegeline!!!......Fegeline!!!

[mehmeh]

ooh mines number 8 in the playlist Or atleast it was but now its blocked. Had like 250,000 views on it too.

They're deffo missing a trick. if I wasnt for the vids I wouldnt have watched the film, which was surpisingly good.

[tygrus]

What next, Weird Al having all his stuff banned because the tunes are the same but the lyrics are parodies? (I don't know if he pays royalties or whatever but you get the idea)

From what he has said in interviews, Weird Al asks for permission from artists and occasionally denied. I think he has to then pay to use the music only, not for lyrics or original recording.

[OilSheikh]

Utube video has now been nlocked.

[Itgirl]

I think that the parodies were quite good. I liked to watch them a lot! Plus it was free promotion of the movie. Why doesn't the company understand this? Can't understand this on my part. Like someone stated above, having seen Sophie Scholl on youtube and bought it afterwards, it does not harm the film industry if there are excerpts or parodies on youtube but rather supports them. This is real irony indeed!

[TheAnimus]

Apparently complaints had been raised about some inappropriate videos, where people where been slanderous or libel against person(s) or companies.

As such the studio didn't want to be associated with such things, so rather than case by case review each one, and putting themselves at risk by condoning such things, they removed them all.

I reckon it was apple, all of this started after the apple iPad jokes were out after all.