Check the second trailer, minute 1:20, the blond bad guy is clearly saying "fire" in German.
Germans, again the official bad guys. Knowing woke Disney, 99% he'll be a nazi, because nowadays, everything is naziiiii!!!
Not a Nazi. Son of the Kaiser.
shareWho they basically just turned into a Nazi. Only thing missing was the uniform.
shareNot sure what you mean. He spoke with a Germanish accent, but there wasn't any goose-stepping, Nazi salutes, or 'Heil Hitlers.' No proclamations about a master race, or Third Reich. The Kaiser was known for being belligerent and emotionally unstable, so it would be natural to portray his son the same way. (Prince Joachim was a real person, by the way.)
shareBasically it's the same played-out "evil German" motif that we've seen a thousand times before. That's what I mean.
shareWell, they did start two world wars.
Norm MacDonald's take on Germany starting world wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXdtafGdIVM
What is exactly your point? We shouldn't pick on Nazis?
Those poor Nazis keep getting piled on ! It's not Fair !
I hope it gets a sequel so now they are done with. I think the San Andrea sequel is not happening so they should sequel this instead.
shareThere are plenty of other groups we could pick on.
We could have more Imperial Japanese villains, for instance. They were just as evil as the Nazis during WWII. Look up Unit 731.
Or how about radical Muslims. I heard they like to fly planes into buildings and blow up crowds of innocent people. It seems like no one wants to make movies and shows about them anymore though. Would be "insensitive."
Gotta keep things fresh. Can't keep going back to the same well.
Or Blacks. The only movie that I can remember now that portrays Blacks as villains is Birth of a Nation.
It is said that classic Hollywood was very racist and yada yada yada... and however, it's almost impossible to find movies portraying Blacks as villains. Compare that to the number of movies portraying white males as evil in modern Hollywood.
Sorry to break the news to you Sherlock but the movie is set in 1916. The Nazi party didn't exist until 1920.... so nope, no nazis in the movie. A little tidbit to remember is that just because someone is a german doesn't mean they are a nazi.
shareFrom what other comments comments in this thread are saying, it seems they've made the same than Wonder Woman first movie: portraying WW1 Germans as some kind of 'proto-nazis'.
shareI positutely chortled with laughter at the nazi reveal in this. I'm not sure that was the filmmaker's intention but it was so comical. It was so out of nowhere. Duh duh Dunh! NaZi$!!! (box checked)
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The movie is set in 1918. The Nazis weren't around yet. Dickhead.
shareFrom the comments of people who have watched the movie, it seems I wasn't wrong. They made the same trick than the Wonder Woman movie, portraying WW1 Prussians as some kind of 'proto-nazis'. Kind of 'technically they're not nazis, but they're nazis'. Modern Hollywood is very predictable.
shareI saw absolutely nothing Nazi-like in Prince Joachim. He was a Prussian aristocrat; arrogant, cruel, convinced of his own superiority but he wasn't spouting any Nazi "philosophy."
For that matter, I didn't see anything Nazi-like in the Wonder Woman German soldiers or officers.
Oh, I was betting on Eastern European terrorists, the kind that are doing it to extort cash, not to get retribution on the West or make a political or religious statement.
shareHe was an opportunist mixed in with the arrogance of some of the prowar and colonialist people of that time. If they wanted another villain they could have gone with somebody else quite easily but perhaps this was a convenient cliche for dramatic impact and humour.
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