I won’t go on about the wonders of the remix culture as smarter people had done it already (watch Faris and Lessig)
What strikes me every time I come across a new cracking Hitler mash-up (there are hundreds of them now and they are cross cultural and cross communal) is the power of non-verbal communications. Psychology textbooks say that more than 70% of our communicative messages are passed through non verbal communications. This, the massive role Hitler is occupying in our shared cultural representations, combined with intensity of the situation is a cultural goldmine for mash-ups - we can practically project any story/script we want on this.
Here are some of the best ones:
Twitter is down
Hitler’s got the wrong bike
Hitler gets banned from World of Warcraft
Hitler finds out Lampard is signing for Inter
and now the funniest EVER, probably because it resonates so powerfully with my past experience - Hitler can’t find a parking space in the streets of Tel-Aviv (apology for any non Israeli readers for the Hebrew subtitles - belive me it’s cracking.) thanks for Kasach for the find.
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“Didn’t they just get $15 million in VC funding?”
I love that first video so much. Who knew Hitler could be so much fun?
Posted 12 Feb 2009 at 3:44 pm ¶My favorite part is always the one line on 3:03. A woman is crying and her friend is counseling her. One of the best deliveries is in the Hebrew version. Hitler says there was a traffic jam because some women tried to reverse park. The woman is saying to her friend: “don’t worry, he doesn’t know it was you”. Hilarious.
Posted 17 Feb 2009 at 7:30 am ¶It’s doubly weird for me because I can speak German, so it gets all mashed up inside my head too. Some of the original spoken word pops through into the subtitled versions, which is equally amusing.
Posted 24 Feb 2009 at 10:01 am ¶http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VkGz2Hw7nQ
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