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Re:The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is ... by jariel on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:00AM (#24916699)
Oh yeah, that's amazing. But by 'populist' I don't mean 'Foreign films with subtitles' I mean 'American Tanker Crew Defeats Entire German Panzer Division starring Brad Pitt and Jason Stratham, Directed by Guy Ritchie, Produced by Michael Bay' - which is how I think most people around the world learn History and Geography, and which are the only kinds of major films Hollywood makes. Regular people do not read or watch documentaries. HN readers and their peers are not 'regular' people.

[1] https://www.pewforum.org/2020/01/22/what-americans-know-abou...

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Re:The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is ... by poisonborz on Sunday November 01, 2020 @04:19AM (#24958250)
Babylon Berlin was a action/erotic/murder mistery-filled series on Netflix, with english dubbing. I doubt you can get more "populist" than that. If you mean very specifically a Hollywood-made movie: why should Americans deal with this topic? It is more appropriately made by a society that had more connections to these events.

But even so, you see counter-examples, eg. Jojo Rabbit, which is about a small german town, post-WWII. "trending periods" as a topic of filmmaking changes constantly. See how in the last decade a lot of people cried out about lack of coverage on WWI, and then came "1917" or Battlefield One.

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