I know this sounds a little racist, but…
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landser-2 — 16 years ago(May 17, 2009 12:53 AM)
Just to clarify a couple points, Oskar Werner is in fact Austrian, not German. In Decision Before Dawn he played Corporal Karl Maurer, not a colonel.
As for animal girl's nazi comments, I wouldn't say you sound racist, just a little ignorant. -
lokisrdeye — 16 years ago(January 01, 2010 09:13 PM)
So happy that we live in a time of such marvelous political correctness that you can not state the opinion that you find that two things111c appear similar, because one of them is evil, without being told your opinion is wrong, perhaps we should burn books as well because they say things we do not agree with.
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pewparoothepewparoo — 15 years ago(July 27, 2010 05:21 PM)
Werner's being cast was kind of the point. The firemen looked like storm troopers and Nazis when they were on the job; Nazis also burned books, remember. The Cyril Cusack character holding up a copy of Mein Kampf to be burned drives it home, too.
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generalusgrant — 15 years ago(December 07, 2010 02:50 PM)
The OP misuses the words "racist" when describing the appearance of Werner in Fahrenheit 451. He does look like a Nazi in this role, which is the stereotypical blonde, blue-eyed "Aryan" look. While Nazi is a pejorative term, it's not "racist" to describe someone as looking like one. It's like calling Ronald Reagan a Republican and thinking that is "racist."
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generalusgrant — 13 years ago(February 09, 2013 02:22 PM)
What a ridiculous and obtuse thread. It's not "racist" to characterize Oskar's looks as "Nazi." The correct word is "sterotypical," and it's utterly true that he looked like the "stereotypical Nazi," especially when he was young. Just check out "Decision at Dawn" and tell me he doesn't look like the perfect SS man. Why do you think he was cast in the role? Would Victor Mature have been cast as "Happy" in that movie? No! He didn't fit the physical description.
It's utterly immaterial that Werner was virulently anti-Nazi in his real life, that's extraneous from the OP's observations. Millions and millions of German/Austrian young men from that era LOOKED like the stereotypical Nazi. So what? That's their culture and heritage. I'm blonde haired and blue eyed and look like a "Nazi." Doesn't mean I am one. -
EllisFowler — 9 years ago(November 07, 2016 12:11 PM)
+1. And to the observation that Werner was Austrian, not German, I'd point out that a surname like "Bschliemayer" (or, for that matter, "Werner") lends support to the fact that "Austrian" and "ethnic German" are far from mutually exclusive.