Seriously, these never get old. An enterprising soul has tonight re-created the pivotal Hitler scene from the movie Downfall, but done so with subtitles explaining why Hilter is so mad that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed.
This meme seems be done for just about everything on the web these days, but this one is particularly good because it’s full of good insider-y references. And it closely echoes some of the actual backlash against the news today which played out on FriendFeed.
Among the choice lines:
- “It was a complete talent grab.”
- “I even remember what it was like before Robert Scoble got here!”
- “I used FriendFeed to argue about Obama and talk about health care, and to like tons of pictures from NASA that were awesome, not to spend my time posting pictures of bacon and talking about mangoes!”
- “Of all the companies, they went with Facebook. They could’ve been acquired by Google and I would’ve been happy for them. Or even Twitter: That I could understand. But Facebook?! What the hell?!”
- “Don’t worry, we still have Plurk.”
I think “Facebook has acquired Facebook.” is meant to be “Facebook has acquired Friendfeed.” in the opening para.
Actually, it does make sense. Facebook did acquire Facebook. I mean, Friendfeed is exactly what Facebook status updates are. No different.
Facebook acquired FriendFeed, not itself
oh sh—
heh, yeah it’s late
Next time when it’s late like that, hold the post of till the sunshines.
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Now you know MG
This is how I feel.
Absolutely hilarious. Perfect imagination and excellent choice of scenes. It looks like Hitler practiced this many times. (LOL)
Its nothing but just amazing ……. It was fun watch this one.
Failbook & Friendfeed will be obsolete in a few years.
This is not funny is you understand german… not funny…
Then turn the sound off, and don’t lip read. That works for me.
I understand German, but it still sounds funny.
FYI – Real Translation for those interest
http://www.yout...h?v=y2fl-sHUwrc
yes.
yes it is funny.
damn funny.
So cool !
Amazing and mind blowing talent.
haha, this time hitler have a clone that playing movies, not dictator, haha
That fat kid. Why is he always appearing in my feed! Nice.
That’s my favorite part!
It’s fun to watch them. Facebook did good job acquiring friendfeed…
Haha.. even before robert scoble got there & obama w/health care.. funny reaction.
Same vid used for other topics, like: http://bit.ly/16djgP
Jawohl!!! (germen for yes sir) this was done very well.
Love these…LOL!
came to watch the video…left waiting for it to load. at least i got to see all the pretty ads on the page…
These videos are awfully inappropriate.
Get a life you idiot and move on
Enjoyed watching the Video, thanks
one of the best of the “hitler meme” vids I’ve seen. Captured the current mood on FriendFeed atm perfectly
Nice video.
The ending line is priceless: “And if worse comes to worse… I can go back to Twitter… and just block those spammers”
Danke!
Finally, some rationalization for our situation!
Well, we had to expect this, facebook is looking to conquer the world! http://AppUseful.com
same funny video but in russian sub text i saw yesterday, but that video was about mac, realy funny=)
“And if worse come to worse, I can always go back to Twitter. ”
Awesome. They have great talent.
I have to admit they are funny – but somehow there is also a somewhat bitter side taste to it when you are German.
Yes, I is exactly how I felt.
* ‘This is’
ridiculous
This is totally priceless. Funny stuff!
not original – stolen from this: http://www.yout...3jrA&fmt=18
this was posted a few months back after the Blue Bulls won the S14 Rugby championship (Southern hemispheres champions league (soccer equivalent) rugby
Which was stolen from this http://www.yout...h?v=T8dl4faCpJE. Which was made over 5 years ago.
Ahahahaha …. great video. Thanks, MG!
Hope this isn’t how the daily TechCrunch briefing with Mike looks like
I understand german, and i still found this very funny
Just turn the sound off :p
I think this does get old. There are just too many parodies like this on the web. Even though the lines are funny, the video is used way to many times. It’s about time someone came up with a new one.
This video is officially overused for gags.
Friendfeed was acquired for $50 M. It’s cheap. FF founders got taken. FF should be at least $100 M, considering the user base and twitter frenzy.
love it
simply hilarious..
And for those who read French, this was his reaction to the iPhone 3GS keynote: http://www.yout...h?v=bSPzqfRCDZs
Simply hilarious too!
Hitler’s 1st Springsteen show is much funnier:
http://www.yout...h?v=xGJpu5AiYoE
I can’t watch these spoofs because I understand the German and it is showing how Hitler really reacted to learning that his war really was lost and he really was going to die. The Red Army was breaking into Berlin and his planned counterattack from Steiner simply wasn’t going to happen. He calls his generals cowards who got to call themselves generals because they’d played a fancy theater to him for years.
He says these traitors are going to pay by drinking their own blood.
Then he says that he would sooner shoot himself in the head before he would leave Berlin.
It’s way too heavy stuff for me to laugh with the sound on…but I will turn the sound off and give it a try.
By the way, that stenographer lived many years to help reconstruct this event for the screenplay.
Outside scenes were shot on Skapina Ulitsa in St. Petersburg, Russia which looked like a warzone at the time of filming 10 or so years ago. All those buildings are now gone and a huge modern shopping center is now being built to rival any new mall anywhere. That whole section of St. Petersburg has been transformed.
Sincerely, thanks for the history details.
I agree with the other folks that you should turn off the sound and try not to lip read.
Humor is a healthy way to relieve pain.
I created the video: awesome to see it on TechCrunch! I couldn’t have done it if I didn’t feel, on some level, Hitler had a point regarding the acquisition.
My favorite is still the “Twitter has failed again” one… But this is good too.
Really funny with the sound off.
There is a whole Wikipedia section about how this scene is often used for parodies. But more perspective on the film itself (via IMDB and other sites):
This movie “The Downfall” or “Der Untergang” was largely from the book “Bis Zur Letzten Stunden” by Traudl Junge who was Hitler’s secretary from 42 to 45.
Traudl was dying of cancer at age 82 on the night the film premiered (and couldn’t attend).
When she was told the film was a success, she said she could now die in peace and died that night.
Germans are quick to notice that some of the actors get their uniforms (including rank insignia) mixed up in the film, but not all that often – it is now serious business for Hollywood not to get SS and Wehrmacht uniforms mixed up because families are sensitive about that.
Vehicles, including the tank tracks, are often local Russian ware (because the film was largely made in Russia). We’re not supposed to notice and, indeed, it doesn’t hurt the film.
The actors and especially the actress who played Magda Goebbels…could barely do the scene where she poisons her children. She kept breaking down crying.
The reason Hitler would have poisoned his dog before committing suicide is that concentration camp victims who made the cyanide pills would sabotage some of their own work apparently so maybe, at the end of the war, someone would try to avoid getting caught via suicide and end up getting hanged instead. Or maybe to save some unlucky person who was ordered to bite into one.
hey – i’m german and i have to tell you that the transcribtion is all wrong. that hitler guy is not talking about facebook at all!
Oh really?! Thanks for being so considerate and breaking the truth to us!!
“Don’t worry, we still have Plurk.â€
awesome.
Indeed, all the funnier given Plurk’s recent growth trajectory.
http://trends.g...=all&sort=0
1. Officially overused, as another comment said…
2. What’s funny really about using a dictator (and not any dictator…) for such an unrelated topic? I mean Facebook acquiring Friendfeed into final moments of Hitler’s dictatorship? You’ve got to be an awful bunch of nerds and have no taste to find this funny!
Admittedly the words are funny, but couldn’t they choose some actual funny situation of another person getting angry. Hitler??? Re-read this. This is absurd.
I’m not some old reactionary, just a young, open-minded techy who finds this and other Hitler memes absurd, pointless, and of very bad taste.
Thanks for sharing this one, incredible find. Who made the original video?
I did: Matt Mastracci suggested the idea last night on FriendFeed, and I took a little time to whip it up. Glad you liked it!
Brilliant job! Love the “we still have Plurk” line… a masterful stroke of genius…
Since when does a single video constitute a “meme”?
since it spreads like wildfire. Pretty much the definition of.
Is eZdia going to be the next to be acquired by facebook ?
absolutely hilarious!