Lars Von Trier gone bonkers in Cannes

Von Trier stirs up Cannes with Hitler, Nazi quips


CANNES, France – Lars von Trier brought the end of the world to the Cannes Film Festival — then the Danish director really shook things up, saying he sympathizes with Adolf Hitler, thinks Israel is a pain and plans to make a porn flick with Kirsten Dunst.

Read all about it here.


Imo, he's gone too far. Even if you say afterwards "oh, I was just joking around", you can't justify saying those things about Hitler. The guy has made some decent movies, but from what I've read about him in interviews, he's a class A sh!thead.

What? The guy who makes movies about self-inflicted genital mutilation and talking foxes is kind of crazy? My mind cannot process this information.

He is manic depressive. Porn with Kirsten Dunst might be the cure though.

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Even though I really like Kirsten Dunst, porn would really overexpose that woman. I say make a gay Nazi porno with Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Gosling, Colin Farrell and Gerard Butler.

Dismissing what you said as a joke precludes any necessity of justification.

I sympathize with Nazis. I am a Nazi. (<-Joke)

Do I need to now justify why I typed that? Am I a bad person now?

So what? It was a huge trollfest. He is a huge troll. He trolls cinema. That's his thing. But because of this attitude he is also one of my favorite filmmakers of ever. I'd rather be trolled by his brutal mindf*ckery than comforted and reassured by capitalism's consumerist lowest common denominator pandering.

Being trolled can be enlightening sometimes. For example, you are now holding your jaw shut and breathing manually.

Also, as Yoda said, this is hardly news. He did this same sh*t for Anti-Christ premier.

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Trolling can go too far, obviously. Particularly in a public setting, as opposed to randomly goofing around on an Internet forum. It also changes as you become a more public figure, which I think is reasonable.

Anyway, he issued an apology. So if he is a troll, he's not really selling it. I think it was a stupid thing to say, and he's right to apologize, and I'm not entirely convinced it was just a misguided joke. I think he's a weird freakin' dude, and it's entirely plausible that he does sympathize with Hitler, though probably for bizarre reasons more than anti-Semitic ones.

Mate come on. He is Danish, we hate the Germans. The older generation anyway.

Did you see Downfall (or the countless internet parodies)?

Tell me you didn't sympathize with Hitler.

I don't find it hard. Have you ever been trapped into a corner? Victim to a horrible situation that you yourself created?

Seems to me that, apart from history, sympathy with Hitler or not with Hitler matters very little. What about his children? What about his wife(s)?

(no troll here btw)

What about them? I don't think Lars would be in trouble if he said "I sympathize with Hitler's children."

I have an interesting book called The Mind of Hitler which is a deep psychoanalysis of Hitler, but I never read it all the way through. I have a similar book for George W. Bush.

Maybe Kirsten Dunst porn is, like, the cure for cancer. I say we give it a whirl!

I meant what Hitler's children thought of him. If I was Hitler's kid, would I sympathize with my father? Personally: yes. Politically: no, he needed to die big time.

I'm just saying, it's not impossible to feel "sympathy" for Hitler and not be a lunatic.

Anthony Hopkins, whether he liked it or not, had to put himself in the mind of Hitler to play his role. He had to feel sympathy -- actually empathy even -- for Hitler.

I is truly the role of an artist to be able to stretch his imagination in order to help us stretch ours.

But he was joking anyways, so it's all moot.

Hell, I would even make an appearance. Anyone up for a Facebook group?

Oh, dear, I hope I never get cancer, then. I'll be screwed.

You wouldnt even watch it to cure your cancer? I mean, being gay is all well and good, but come on bro.

Whew! Took a little searching, but the press conference is here:

http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/me...yer/11391.html

Depends on how far that sympathy goes. But you probably have to be a bit of a lunatic to think it's a good idea to say you have sympathy for Hitler, at least. And let's not forget he followed this with "I'm a Nazi" and "Israel is a pain in the ass." Tone deaf does not begin to describe this. He either has no conception of how people interact today, was abusing some kind of substance, or he really kinda sort thinks these things. If it's a joke, it reflects poorly on his ability to understand other human beings on even a basic level. And that's probably the best case scenario.

But man, you are all about the Nazis today.

If a picture of Michael Jackson can be a source for world energy, I say we should give this Kirstin Dunst porn a try if it could cure cancer. I'd rather look at her than MJ.

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I just assumed that it wouldn't be able to work for me. Of course I'd watch it if it could, but I have a feeling it wouldn't cure my cancer. I imagine being aroused by Kirsten would trigger the cure.

It might even make the cancer worse. More aggressive. It might grow out of my ears and spread to the television showing the Kirsten Dunst porno, covering the screen for me.

You are right. We need to find the male equivalent of Kirsten Dunst.