A picture is a thousand words, and in a film is a thousand pictures. What Hitler cries out to the German masses in his speeches is verily vehement and passionate, but he was also a leader who was acutely conscious of the power of the visual image, a man known to have practiced his speeches repeatedly to perfect the leader figure that his people would see. Triumph of the Will uses the medium of film to not only capture the startling visions of Hitler's Reich, but to heighten, elaborate and even glorify through careful compilation and editing. Through this film, an audience is nearly bombarded with the militaristic impressions, the endless stretches of those who are proudly willing to serve Germany. A steadfast Germany. A united Germany. A powerful Germany. A Germany which its people can depend upon, and which can stand strong independently. Hitler presents an image of all united as one entity that is indestructible, yet can also destroy what stands in its way. The images in the film show that all that is good and noble to the German Volk is bonded to this ideal of the great, undivided nation. Therefore, what good could come of isolating oneself from this completed whole, outside of which there can be nothing better left?
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
"Es Leben Deutschland!"
A picture is a thousand words, and in a film is a thousand pictures. What Hitler cries out to the German masses in his speeches is verily vehement and passionate, but he was also a leader who was acutely conscious of the power of the visual image, a man known to have practiced his speeches repeatedly to perfect the leader figure that his people would see. Triumph of the Will uses the medium of film to not only capture the startling visions of Hitler's Reich, but to heighten, elaborate and even glorify through careful compilation and editing. Through this film, an audience is nearly bombarded with the militaristic impressions, the endless stretches of those who are proudly willing to serve Germany. A steadfast Germany. A united Germany. A powerful Germany. A Germany which its people can depend upon, and which can stand strong independently. Hitler presents an image of all united as one entity that is indestructible, yet can also destroy what stands in its way. The images in the film show that all that is good and noble to the German Volk is bonded to this ideal of the great, undivided nation. Therefore, what good could come of isolating oneself from this completed whole, outside of which there can be nothing better left?
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