A conversation in a bar the other night has led me to post this scene from my feature length satire film titled Wearing Hitler's Pants. The person I spoke with expressed a passionate concern for a "lack of equity in our country" as he pointed to the television which was on a news show re-capping the Zimmerman trial, and then he promptly asked me about my ethnic background... I described myself as a mutt with some German, some English, and, I assume mostly French (a guess due to my French last name) heritage. With said information in hand, he began to ridicule my German decent by indicating - "what if Hitler was a brother?" (I'm not sure that it matters, but to me it makes this incident much more humorous - the man I spoke with was African American) I believe he was mostly serious (as humor sometimes is) which caused me to laugh. My laughter at his seriousness about Hitler-because-I-was-a-percent-German perplexed him. "What, you think hate is funny?" He asked. To which I responded by reciting several lines from this clip. He reluctantly chuckled. Please keep in mind... It's satire. According to Wikipedia -
Satire is a
genre of
literature, and sometimes
graphic and
performing arts,
in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to
ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society
itself, into improvement. I think the irony in this little scene is amazing.. The actor's really good as well (Morrocco Omari http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0648339/) Regardless, I've been told that satire is dead.
