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In Reply to: Re: A good friend of Adolph.....SO WHAT ? posted by Dave on September 09, 2002 at 14:21:52:
I was expecting this answer.Respectfully, however, it is the usual political answer, that her critics bring up all these many years.
But it is still, not a specific answer, that has ANYTHING to do with her Talent, and her abilities to create and affect people as an Artist.
If one went, not very further along with this political rhetoric and logic, then, any politician who mastered and employed the techniques to manipulate Media, would also be "guilty" by association. And even that wouldn't touch upon the artistry in THAT use of it.
It's a prickly issue to discuss, because of the obvious emotional and intellectual obstacles, only because it's about politics, and NOT Art.
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I've read her story too and agree it's compelling. In 1934 (Triumph of the Will) no-one had any indication of the horrors the Hitler regime would eventually unleash; while we now have the perspective of history, Leni Riefenstahl at that time did not.
When Truman was President, his tough decisions (and he had many of them!) more often than not, were so at odds with Public opinion, even that of his own administration, the media coined the phrase "To Err is Truman". History has vindicated Truman as being very much the right person at the right time, and vilified Leni Riefenstahl as being the right person at the wrong time. To condemn her out of hand is comfortable, trite, and wrong.
I see her as as much a victim of war as the soldier that came home shell-shocked. For a person of such talent to lose a brilliant career, in an atmosphere of resentment and recrimination, is a terrible waste. For her films that weren't made, as a result of her being postwar "persona non grata", in view of the standard of those few that were, it's a loss to Art, and so to us all.
Eric
Tokyo*
I absolutely agree, as in her last film , Flachland, ( Flatland )
she had that " ability as she " use " Gypsie " from the next KZ as statist.
She loves to sat down next to Hitler on a good fire place, no sex she said ..just the Führer lust, as a woman can feel that...
Mick Jagger is said to love her so Lucas and of course J Foster who is preparing her life on celluloid...As the Seven Years in Tibet, on more of the good guys to be glorified ! Thank you Hollywood.
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nt
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