Pitch the Next Sympathetic War Criminal Movie

Inspired by Oppenheimer and Silicon Valley Techno Utopianism

Gary Oldman already did Churchill

Bryan Cranston did LBJ
Gary Sinise did Truman

look, considering how many Spiderman Batman Star Wars movies there are ...

The one actually worse metaverse than those

Wasn't gonna open the Oppenheimer thread, is there some good rancour in there

Young Hitler

hilary, meryl streep

I had gone with "Eichmann: He engineered the final solution and paid the ultimate price!"

"Meg o My Heart" - the heart-warming saga of the infinite compassion of Margaret Thatcher

Ironically considering the origin of this thread, I bet you could get some Japanese ultra-nationalists to finance a film about how Nanjing was unfortunate but unavoidable.

I had gone with "Eichmann: He engineered the final solution and paid the ultimate price!"

― sarahell, Thursday, July 27, 2023 12:34 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This could be the blockbuster weekend of EicHE-MANn

no doubt

xp PK - No, it would on a double feature with "Clippy! The Movie!"

though maybe it should be Clippy? The Movie?" because Clippy wants to answer your questions

Streep already played Margaret Thatcher.

Will the right-wing film machine make a mockbuster trying to whitewash Edward Teller?

Danny Masterson as Lt. Calley

https://patriotforceusa.com/cdn/shop/products/image_b3dcbb5d-ff9a-4c86-a65d-55f0c225e563_480x.jpg?v=1620604105

Eddie Gallagher. Is it a toy movie? A war criminal movie? What about both?

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/11/12/ap22315582796276-09f26367084b89272f772551a733834bc008615f-s1100-c50.jpg

To be followed up by Eddie Gallagher Two of course.

no doubt

a buncha misfits/chronic loser peewee hockey team transformed into winners by laconic iceman coach Reinhard Heydrich, who it is revealed has a heart of gold under the icy exterior and is a bit of a mischievous prankster.

https://i.imgur.com/ulmnv6k.jpg

Polpot: If He Breathe, He a Thot

iirc there was a plotline in the Man in the High Castle tv show where elderly Hitler was the only thing preventing Nazi hardliners from starting a nuclear war with Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybuKQf9p5jg

troubled architect Albert Speer succeeds where Oppenheimer failed, steers Germany away from building a bomb.

is there already a Kissinger movie?

he was a central character in that terrible McKay Vice movie, and a TV movie in 2011, but nothing major.

if anybody makes it please god can someone make sure Gary Oldman is dead first.

Jonah Hill might be ready to do it in a year or two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOxy0-xTeyk

Goering Out! Jocular Hermann Goering enjoys a good game of footie just like the next bloke

Robert E. Lee/Stonewall Jackson buddy comedy.

Civil Warped

Before there was "Squatting Slavs in Tracksuits" ... there was the 90s icon ... Hobo Humpin Slobodan Babe ... the unsung "cool" of Slobodan Milosevic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_ducks

george clooney
billy bob thornton

REAGAN vs KHOMEINI

Who plays who?

I'm thinking Clooney in full O Brother mode as Khomeini.

i hadn’t thought it through carefully, it’s what’s left of a poorly formed joke along the lines of “jackie chan’s reagan vs khomeini” which i could’ve just left alone

it got garbled as i was translating it into trenchant

Jackie Chan would probably play Nixon so he could make another Drunken Master

but yeah he already has experience from syriana

is there already a Kissinger movie?

― Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague)

this has really gotta be the winner here

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