propaganda film. It is about the nazi party congress in Nuremberg, attended by more than 700k nazis. This film is made by and for the nazis.
First of all, what is propaganda? The dictionary tells us that propaganda is simply the spreading of ideas, the problem with this is that a lot of things fall into this definition, and this is usually not how we use it, when we hear the word propaganda, we immediately associate it with ´´bad´´.More than simply spreading and idea. It is spreading an idea with the intent of deceiving the audition. And it is very important to also know that this idea that we are going to be talking about that´s been spreaded, it´s not just being spread by any organization, it is being spreaded by the STATE.
In 1934, after hiddenberg´s death, Hitler wanted to give the regime a new image, a new legitimacy and he wanted to prepare his people for the wars that were to come. They hired Leni Riefendhsadmamd to make a new propaganda film.
So in any film or story, there is ALWAYS a conflict. Not with propaganda. In this film, there is no conflict, there is no uncertainty, they start well and finish better, they destroy the opposition, you get tired of seeing them winning. This is what the nazis want you to see, the nazi power, their promise of victory,the weakness of the opposition. Nazis have the need to crush their week enemies.
Also the movie by itself, as in THE MOVIE gives a strong message, a strong message of the wealth of the nazis, this movie is known by it visuals, but not because they invented some awesome film making skills, but because they had hundreds of cameras located everywhere to film the thing. The economic strenght of the nazis is so great that even a simple film is one of the most expensive movies made yet.
You dont see some simple troops marching, you see thousands and thousands and thousands of troop marching for their great leader Adolf Hitler, there is and endless supply of soldiers. This soldiers have no opposition, there is no conflict. But this is mostly lies, and this is what propaganda is about, deceiving. Nazis were internally a mess, just before the film was made they had assasinated tons of their high commanders and the army wasnt fully commited to hitler.
This movie projects and unstoppable nazi force, a unified country ready to crush the enemy, it was made in order to demoralize the opposition, to make the opposition think that the nazis were so great they didnt stand a chance, also to unify the people.
This movie was released commercially, to distant itself from the nazi regime, to make it look like the director actually captured what nazis were like. It worked, our view of the nazis is very much formed by what this propaganda films wanted us to see, they wanted us to think of thousands of troops lined up when we thought of them , and thats what we think about. It is very important to note this, that the propaganda worked so well that to this day we have an image in our mind of what they wanted us to see.
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