It looks like Hitler won’t be making any more people laugh.
Hmmm…it looks that sentence deserves some context. A series of popular videos on YouTube have had clips of Downfall, a 2004 German drama about the final days of Hitler, with the subtitles switched around to show the Führer hyperventilating over a problem such as getting banned from XBox Live rather than the collapse of his plans of global domination.
Now Constantin Films, the studio that owns the rights to the film have taken down most of the videos, much to fans’ dismay over not seeing Adolph yelling about the new iPad.
One video that has so far survived the copyright takedowns has Hitler griping about the Hitler parodies themselves, in a sly and not-so-subtle commentary on the issue of copyright takedowns in general.
Don’t you wish that your school was cool and edgy? Maybe that for once, the school play could be something not from the Nobody Wants These Movies DVD bin at Wal-Mart. My high school was plagued with singing cowboys and cute country sweethearts locked together in songs of love and the country. It was disgusting. Is there really nothing better for students to sing about spinach and “termayters?” I don’t care if it won Academy Awards, Oklahoma! is the lamest thing to have ever lamed in the history of lame. The video below, on the other hand, is fudging awesome.
Behold as these children star in the elementary school production of Scarface.
Fudge yeah. Although I may have chosen Fun Dip as a substitute for cocaine instead of popcorn, it still works. Watching baby Tony Montana seizure at the end is a delight and hearing “fudge” coming from these little kids is equally entertaining. I may or may not volunteer to babysit my nieces and nephews just so I can re-enact it.
And no, it’s not real. Put down your manicured nails and get out of your vans, PTA moms. It’s fake. This is an elaborate production filmed about a month ago by Marc Klasfed, a music video director who’s worked with Jay-Z, mouse-face Avril Lavigne and the always-amusing Foo Fighters. According to the LA Times, Klasfed used professional child actors in a rented theater in Koreatown, California. The audience consisted of family, friends and random extras.
I think it’s funny how everybody has accepted that Owl City basically ripped off The Postal Service.The one-man band of Adam Young is famous for the single “Fireflies” which sounds like him doing karaoke of one of Ben Gibbard’s more catchy songs.
Anyway, let’s go to the weirdness. The new video for his song “Vanilla Twilight” is about the End of Times. And something about lighthouses.
And Shaquille O’Neal for some reason.
It’s not just a cameo, it’s a prominent part. He’s begging the aliens/Jesus to take him with them. What’s next? Lebron James playing H-O-R-S-E with Satan in the latest video by Passion Pit?
Hot Chip’s “I Feel Better” is their second single off their latest album One Life Stand. I’m not going to give any spoilers about the video, which confuses me more with each viewing.
Wait around to the 0:50 mark, when things start to get really weird and never look back.
Directed by British actor Peter Serafinowicz, who’s perhaps best known as the eternally bitter roommate in “Shaun of the Dead.” Also check out his spoof of 70′s educational videos “Look Around You,” which recently jumped across the pond to the U.S. via Adult Swim.
Have you ever come across something so absurd, so weird and so creepy that it ultimately invaded your thoughts for the rest of the day and became infinitely awesome? If so, then let me know about it so that I can get this out of my head. Introducing one of the latest in the internet phenomenon popularity: Trololololololololololo
Warning: this beautifully not-sung musical number will either horrify you or trap you in its clutches. Most people will either close the video immediately and sigh in distaste or close the video immediately, sigh in distaste and ultimately let curiosity take over and take the plunge.
The now-legendary man lip-singing is named Edward Anatolevich Hill, a Russian singer who may or may not be the Russian version of David Bowie. The song Hill is “singing” is called “I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home,” a song meant to be sung exactly like this in 1970′s Russia. Apparently, the song was written by famous Russian composer Arkadii Ostrovskii, who wrote the song in the style of vokaliz. Vokaliz appears to be the art of singing without words, so basically anything unintelligible counts–A better example of vokaliz isn’t as obvious about it pantomime.
The epic level of creepiness is what makes this video so appealing. Hill’s uncanny and stiff posture makes the entire performance awkward and weird. It’s like you’re watching the really quiet kid in class finally come out of his shell and perform in the talent show and instead of the traditional ugly-duckling-turns-talented-swan scenario, the duck stays ugly. So ugly it’s fascinating and so memorable that it’s feels like a privilege to be a witness.
I’ve taken the liberty of posting the lyrics for those of you interested in showing off this beauty at karaoke night.
“I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home” by Arkadii Ostrovskii as interpreted by Edward Hill
A much more informative article about the origin of the Trololololololololololo video can be found at Justin E.H. Smith’s blog here.
Jimmy Kimmel on his show revealed the secret “Trololololololololololo” past of Christoph Waltz, the actor who recently won Best Supporting Actor for his role as the Jew-hunter Col. Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds. Apparently at one point in his career, Waltz performed the German equivalent entitled “Der Humpkin”.
Yes, it appears to be a parody. But it’s so endearing.
(UPDATE) Some crafty YouTubers have posted some good responses.
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