Pitch the Next Sympathetic War Criminal Movie

lots of pensive shots where Henry is agonizing over yet another unauthorized illegal bombing run

"the people I killed won't know that I won a Nobel Prize. it's not fair."

Belushi is pretty much the iconic Kissinger for me.

https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/pressofatlanticcity.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/e/f3/ef362088-139f-11e6-a030-47a4a045456c/572cb99e26891.image.jpg

My official prediction for the next war criminal movie will be an all-out big budget Wernher von Braun biopic - this time fully acknowledging his Nazi past and membership in the SS, Operation Paperclip, converting to evangelical christianity on arriving in the US, Walt Disney, and Tom Lehrer.

J. Lee Thompson made a Von Braun movie in 1960 called I Aim At The Stars with Curd Jürgens - not a terrible movie for what clearly is image whitewashing.

Fred Armisen is Colin Powell

How has nobody gone for cuddly old misunderstood Genghis yet? Maybe a bit too pre-legal? An intimate portrait, the man behind the mass murder. He shaped the world, but could he shape himself? Every legend has his reasons

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/The_Conqueror_%281956%29_film_poster.jpg

(The Straight Dope on whether or not The Conqueror killed its cast and crew by filming in radioactive dirt)

There's also a ton of Khan biopics made in China: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Depictions_of_Genghis_Khan_on_film

one mans etc is another mans etc

truer words were never y'know

Werner von Braun was a big character in the first season of For All Mankind. They dealt with his crimes but he wasn’t entirely unsympathetic.

there was a von Braun movie called "I Aim for the Stars" made about 1960

sadly it seems that the review which just read "...but sometimes I hit London" is apocryphal

is there already a Kissinger movie?

― Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, July 28, 2023 12:21 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

If I can believe the trailer, he's a prominent supporting character in Golda (who I assume is regarded in some quarters as despicable, if not an outright war criminal).

^^ bump for death