Die Welle, The Wave [Region All, NTSC]

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Die Welle, The Wave [Region All, NTSC]

Die Welle, The Wave [Region All, NTSC]

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They criticized that the psychological developments are missed out, Wenger and the other figures are partially constructed by cliches, [20] or defined by “something model-like”, [7] they also argued that the figures are “slightly oversubscribed stereotypes” [24] or “placeholders”. The most disturbing thing is that the teacher slowly loses control over himself, until there is a disaster. A water polo competition is due to happen later that day, and Wenger asks the Wave to show up in support of the team. He said the movie is not an adaption and that he changed characters, dialogues as well as the beginning and ending of the movie. In his opinion films can at best stimulate discussions, but to be able to do that they have to be really entertaining.

The mentally unstable and unaccepted character is a good metaphor for the state of the German people after world war one, and his acceptance of the Wave is reminiscent of the German people accepting the nazis. For example, Rainer Wenger, Karo, Marco, Mona, and Tim correspond to Ben Ross, Laurie Saunders, David Collins, Andrea, and Robert Billings. The movement had no obvious constitution or ideology, and there was not even the merest hint that anyone had explored their reasons for joining or sustaining the movement. Gansel's Wave is based on teacher Ron Jones's "Third Wave" experiment, which took place at a Californian school in 1967.The Wave is (unlike Hitler's) an inclusive fascism; membership of the group is open to all, regardless of race, religion or social class.

This also includes subsidiary aspects such as the football team which was turned into a water polo team in the German version whose coach, as opposed to the original, is the teacher himself.Maximilian Mauff as Kevin, an upper-class student who clashes with The Wave at first until he joins the group for social reasons as he loses his status. Instead of revealing Hitler as the groups true leader, the teacher only gives a speech after which the events get out of control and a student dies.

It had a salute (a raised, cupped hand), a slogan - "strength through discipline, community and action" - and a secret police force. He then explains that, for example, Karo's political awareness and opposition arise out of vanity: she does not like the white shirt. To eliminate the upcoming momentum, Jones aborted the project on the fifth day and showed the students the parallels towards the Nazi youth movements.As a consequence, Todd Strasser, whose novel popularized the material in Germany, and the publisher Ravensburg, did not receive direct revenues from the film project. The screenplay is based on an article written by Ron Jones in which he talks about the experiment and how he remembers it.

Karo continues her opposition to the Wave, earning the anger of many in the group, who ask her boyfriend, Marco, to do something about it. Horrified, Wenger cradles his corpse and looks on helplessly at how his own vanity and foolishness have resulted in his whole class being scarred for the rest of their lives. Die Welle" can therefore be seen as a film about the failure of good intentions, as idealistic young students are tricked into supporting something quasi-fascist, just as many Germans and Italians in the twenties and thirties joined genuine fascist movements for what they thought were idealistic reasons only to find that they had become part of something evil. Another interesting thing portrayed here was the relative power of one person, not only by the teacher, but a girl who walked out of the experiment and tried to convince the other students of how things were going in the wrong direction. The acting by and large is very good; however a few of the actors displayed a scope for further improvement.Reviewers have noted a similarity to American films that deal with competent teachers who evoke the capability of disadvantaged students, such as Dead Poets Society [17] or U.



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