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[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 hours ago

@ZDL@ttrpg.network you'll like this post

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 65 points 6 days ago

Because she's a revolutionary, and Batman is a billionaire defending the status quo. You can't have people being inspired into revolution.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 60 points 6 days ago (2 children)

A few days ago Margot Friedländer died at 103. Her entire closer family died in the holocaust after the USA, China and Brasil denied then immigration visa. She, as a teenager, was able to hide for quite a while but was finally ratted out by a jewish Gestapo spy and deported to a concentration camp. She met her future husband in the KZ and immigranted to New York later on, living a regular life until her husband died in 1997. She then started to write and moved back to Germany in 2010 (as a 89 year old!) and visites countless schools to talk about her experiences with the students and received countless medals, prices and acclaim. She was pictured on the German Vogue magazine in 2024 and later on continued her speeches until two days before her dead - her last speech was at the celebrations for the end of the WW2 in Germany.

We need more motion pictures about people like her. Not about another billionaire superhero who is unable to work in a team to save the world.

Because she was real. And much more powerful. I had the honour to attend a event she spoke.

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I would watch the ever loving hell out of an HBO series about this woman. They would make fucking millions too, and people would learn about a real hero. Triple W

[–] philpo@feddit.org 7 points 6 days ago

Yeah. Make a fucking series about them. There are more than enough people that have a powerful story that is real, not fake, and who defied danger much more than any Superhero did.

Besides: They are incredibly powerful role models. Remember how many young woman admired Daenerys when GoT was popular?

Fritz and Hedwig Aub come to my mind - they supported hidden jews all over Berlin (Fritz was a doctor), often sacrificing their own food rations for them and were almost caught multiple times. Cläre Barwitzky saved 30 jewish kids in France. Lepa Radić was executed at age 17 by German troops after fighting as a partisan, refusing to give up her comrades name under torture.Before that she escaped a KZ like prison at age 15.

We need to make real world examples like Margot and all the others.

There are countless similar people. The Danish resistance who saved most Danish jews. The Italian partisans who fought both their own Fascism and the Germans. The French resistance. The Polish resistance had people who intentionally let themselves imprison in KZ, including Auschwitz, and escaped from there.

These stories need to be told. Which brings me back to Margot - she came back to Germany because she could remember that there were people that helped her, despite the consequences. That not all people were evil and that there is always something one can do to resist. Which is a message she found more important now than ever before.

[–] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

TIL KZ stands for Konzentrationslager (concentration camp).

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 days ago

The face that shot a hundred Nazis.

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 15 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Quentin Tarantino were the heck are you with this?!?!

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 19 points 6 days ago

The main actress will definitely lead them through the forest with no shoes on.

[–] Peacecraft@lemm.ee 10 points 6 days ago

He couldn't think of a way to fit a scene focused entirely on the protagonist's feet into the story.

[–] Event_Horizon@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

He can even play a Nazi and suck on the lead actresses toes before being shot!

He is thinking about which movie is going to be his last ever movie

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 11 points 6 days ago (10 children)

..because she was a child soldier. She was doing this aged 14.

We tend not to glorify tales of the WW2 where war crimes were committed.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago

We do tend to do tales of tragedy though. She was the victim on two different counts, as well as being the hero (recruited as a child soldier, and defending against hostile invasion. Heroic for shooting Nazis).

Depicting someone defending against the bad guys while being taken advantage of by the good guys and meanwhile shooting pedophile Nazis feels like a shoe in.

Also, it wasn't technically a war crime at the time. The conventions around not using child soldiers are shockingly recent. Was still a bad thing to do, but only by modern standards.
We also tend to glorify war crime stories depressingly often, so I'm not sure that point even stands.

[–] StannisDMannis@lemmy.today 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

So Kick-Ass it, make it about her going and out killing these SS pedos who are following a 14 year old into the woods.

And we totally do, look at Inglourious Basterds.

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[–] DimFisher@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Because they can't make her movie character older than what it was?!

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] DimFisher@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Of course it is, you don't have to be exactly accurate

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[–] FuryMaker@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Directed by Quentin Tarantino.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago

She's like Dexter, the best kind of serial killer

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

does nobody google anything before making memes?
here’s a movie about her: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt29931730/

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

PRE-PRODUCTION

Call me when it’s real.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

well ok, When It’s Real… nice to meet you.

[–] Kentifer@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There's no release date. It might be real, in that someone might be working on it, but it isn't real in the sense that there is a finished film that someone can view right now.

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Plus anything not finished can still be cancelled.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Becau$e rea$ons.

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago

Teaching us how to handle incels for 80 years. RIP.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

Please don't. I know Hollywood and it will become.somr over dramatized turd piece that has little to do with what actually happened

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 points 6 days ago

Cause people with money tend to side with Hitler types.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Damn, we need a few thousand clones of her, asap. Nazis everywhere lately. Although they started to come back right around the time she died. Makes you wonder.

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