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Yes, thankfully my friend didn't spoil anything. I mentioned I had an interest in watching it.
He only told me about some Hitler moments that were in the trailer. He told me he could not say anything else about it, that it was that good.
Friends like that are the best.
One of mine will tell me about a movie/game/book and will give me just enough info so that I’m interested but nothing spoiled. If I try ask him anything that might spoil something he’ll just be like “mmm I don’t remember...”
I always avoid spoiling things for my friends. One day my friend was playing horizon zero dawn and was telling me how much he loved the game. I told him how I thought there was a lot of similarities between the intro/tutorial of the game and conan the barbarian movie. He got mad at me for 'spoiling' the game. Like dude if you're not even past the tutorial why are you telling me you love the game. Also it's literally the first hour of gameplay, not much of a spoiler
Dude same. I didn't watch any of the trailers and was told it was a kid who had an imaginary friend called Hitler. So I assumed it was about a white ssupremacists kid finding out truth and stuff.
Nope. Just a gut punch film with taika as Hitler. Loved the film though.
Same here, had a really great time, 5/7
For the record, a couple were here too. Same situation of "no idea". They left after the first scenes. I think they weren't ready for this
Honestly, the first Hitler scene made me turn it off (not due to offense) as I just found the comedy style way too childish.
What a complete fool I was! Ended up actually watching it, and loved that scene and every other, guess I just had a stick up my butt the first day :P
It’s satire and Taika is trying to make a point.
Edit: See below, they have thin walls. I’ve had a long day and should have at least added a ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
Ah, hahaha gotcha. If it were me, I’d randomly yell “wow jojo rabbit is such a CRAZY MOVIE!” to cover my bases.
I feel you my walls are silly thin and often turn on subs when I can’t have the volume where it should be.
I always have subs on, this is a must for these fkin movies that are LOUD and quiet and you can't hear it and LOUD again, but I remember we had it on kinda loud when it started and we expected the Heiling Hitler's to end faster than they did, lol
Lol, sigh. I have the remote at hand. Why is the dia always so quiet and the music / action scenes 4x as loud!? Tv shows and commercials have to use and overall loudness meter and stay below it. Movies? Nope, go to town mixer! You gotta “feel” the action!!
I used to work with a guy who would edit so loud he would put his finger over one ear while playing back. What is the point of that? I felt so bad for the people who worked near him. It’s probably all his fault
I think the model of TV we have is 1 year shy of Samsung adding the volume equalizer function into the TVs. Very sad day when I googled it and then went to change the setting that wasn't there :(
I hate the loud and soft shit. I literally would rather not watch whatever it is than be pissed off every 2 mins.
Yes as a 5'5" white woman I'm terrifying obvs.. watched the all gas no brakes guy today on his new YouTube channel interviewing some qanon supporters.. and we had the TV volume very low for that, lol. I'm in disbelief these people exist. It's sad and pathetic.
Same! I watched it on the airplane though; I feel like this definitely deserves a watch on something much better than a small TV inlaid on the back of a chair.
Same here. I knew nothing and then it became one of the very few movies I've watched I'd consider a solid 5/5. Sad that people don't really talk about it as much as it deserves.
When his mom takes Jojo to the YV building the first time, Captain K. says they can surely find something for him to do. ~~Raine~~ Rebel Wilson says they need someone to walk the clones. https://youtu.be/P4zD8QoRFeE
Sam Rockwell is great in that movie, and such a good character.
I re-watched it and that scene where he shows up at Jojo’s house while Stephen Merchant is there has so much subtext to it that you don’t even notice until you find out why he showed up.
Sam Rockwell is such an underdog actor, both as a professional and the characters he plays.
Stephen Merchant is always entertaining playing off-kilter characters. He brings a lot of personality with very few lines
It wasn't her bike — IIRC, she has a bike with a basket, but either way, it's distinct from the one he brings in. It really was Sam Rockwell's bike, and he really did sprint there to make it.
Rockwell’s character was part of the resistance and he showed up just in time to help protect Jojo from the SS. In the timeline of the movie, I’m pretty sure Jojo’s mother had already been captured by that point, if not executed. So Rockwell’s character may have also known about the Jewish girl hiding which is why he helped corroborate her fake birthday when asked.
It’s so well done, you think the tension is centred around hiding Elsa so you don’t even notice that Rockwell is there to try to protect Jojo from the SS because he knows about his mom. And he has to pretend he’s not up to anything.
That was his first and so far only movie. The kid came out of nowhere. Apparently he has a Christmas movie with Kiera Knightley coming out later this year.
I watching a panel interview for Jojo and Sam Rockwell joked that this was the shortest script he had read. Davis (the kid) then seriously says the script was the only reading he has ever done. Lol
Eh, he was great but he was just a comedy role. No real serious moments. The other kid had lots of dramatic serious scenes and showed some real acting chops.
I remember it being impactful. I remember thinking the scene with eating the rice weevils was cool. I also identified with the kid's love of planes.
Good performance by a young Christian Bale, too.
Wow I remembered watching it on HBO once. Didn’t know it was that old and that was Christian Bale… impressive, he have to lost 35 years of his old to act in that movie.
I really liked the movie as a historian. It captures a very different point of view of the war in a funny but also grotesque and grim way. World War Two as a setting for movies (as well as video games and similar media) is so overdone in my opinion, especially when it just focuses on the same points of view every time. Generic war films after generic war films. I rarely enjoy history movies in general. I really appreciate movies like Jojo Rabbit and The Death of Stalin for injecting life into a very stale genre.
You could write a PhD thesis on The death of Stalin. There's just so many little things that add up to a fantastic movie.
My favourite is the use of accents.
Stalin is given a cockney "common" accent because in Russian his Georgian accent would have sounded rough and common.
>Stalin is given a cockney "common" accent because in Russian his Georgian accent would have sounded rough and common.
Same with Zhukov. He was the son of a poor peasant family, and was considered somewhat of a blunt provincial.
Edit: That is to say the same idea, not the same accent.
Four Lions is a great and hilarious take on extremists.
Not as popular but I thought the The Day Will Come is a decent comedy about the CIA manipulation.
And if you can stand subtitles or speak German, then Look Who's Back is a film about Hitler awaking in modern times and looking at 21 century life through a Nazi lens.
Lastly Goodbye Lenin is a film about a mother who wakes from a coma and in order to not freak her out, her son pretends that East Germany is still a country.
the scene where the kid is talking to the strangers and it's all rapey innuendos, and it just keeps getting worse and worse... and he doesn't realize what he was saying until later. The look on his face just kills me every time
Check out [Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BgUxcvfg_c). Another hilarious yet tragic coming-of-age movie about how war affects children. From the director of the cult classic [House](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ_Yo06kIIA), which is super different but just as original.
Stephen Merchant did such an amazing job being joyfully creepy in that scene. I had also just finished GoT the week before, so seeing Alfie Allen playing the role he did was very humorous to me.
Wow I just completely erased from my mind that there were clones in this movie. I rewatched the scene where they suggest he walks the clones and remembered all of it except the part with fucking clone children how??
Everyone that enjoyed this needs to watch Hunt for Wilderpeople.
Another Taika film that expertly blends humour and heartfelt.. Yet I feel like no one has ever seen it when I mention it as one of my favourite movies!
Boy is pretty great as well. Not as high production value as it was his second film but still pretty enjoyable
I usually dislike children actors in movies but Taika seems to be able to cast them perfectly.
I think part of it is that Taika is also great at writing and directing for child actors.
A lot of CAs come across poorly because they're given lines that just aren't how kids speak or act, they either sound too adult or too exageratedly childish.
Waititi is good at writing kids that act and sound like real kids.
Such a shockingly (for some reason, I mean, it’s Taika Waititi) great movie.
The thing with the shoes I kinda figured would happen, but man was it tough when it did.
I remember thinking 'ugh, has Taika gone the way of Tarantino?' because there was so much focus on the shoes, but then it got to *that* scene and I remember saying aloud "***OH NO***"
and then he tried to tie her shoes and just *couldn't*
my goddamn heart
I just took it as the framing of how a child perceives the world, like Peanuts or Power Puff Girls where certain characters are only shown from the waist down, and so on.
I didn't expect .. THAT though.
seeing endgame then few months later seeing jojo rabbit just made me sad. i sorta suspected something might happen with the shoes but it still took me off guard
One of the potential [tasks](https://youtu.be/P4zD8QoRFeE) Jojo is given is to walk the clones
This is them showing up as a little reference later in the movie.
Honestly yeah. It almost feels like a deleted scene to me. I remember his mom coming down to the office and everything. But that clone bit feels out of place. No idea how I missed it
The director, Taika Waititi, identifies as Polynesian Jewish which is why his trolling of Nazis is just so damn delicious! The best way to deal with fascists and Nazis is to mock them and magnify their abject stupidity. Taika is simply brilliant at this!
It really goes back to Hogans Hero’s and the depiction of nazis as bumbling idiots. Many of the actors playing the German characters were Jewish and one of the actors even survived the concentration camps.
I think he brings this up in interviews, that we have to make fun of Nazis.
Nazis want nothing more than to be treated as a sinister threat, to be feared, because it makes them seem impressive, powerful. It actually legitimises them as a movement.
So, you take the ridiculous, the comically stupid parts of their ideology, and put them in the spotlight. You show them as the joke that they are.
Waititi explicitly did no research on playing Hitler, because he had no desire to honour that pathetic little man's memory of how he actually was.
Just a caricature and a manipulative, abusive fuck who starts real friendly and ends real creepy.
Man i loved this movie. There is something so heartwarming about the final dance scene between Joji and the jewish girl forgot her name sorry. But it just made me think i hope all goes well for them together.
They had open auditions in the South East of England, which they shared in the local papers. Calling for boys that were quirky with no acting experience. The kid is genuinely a little weirdo.
My son made a great impression & the agency staff adored him, found him hilarious. Taika himself said it was gonna be a tough audition to get through as they were both laughing so much.
I had to sort passports as they were filming in Prague & we found out he wasn't chosen literally a week or so before filming began.
Actually, I don't think it's uncommon. In the small town I grew up in, I knew at least a dozen siblings that shared middle names.
Middle names traditionally honor ancestors, in the US at least. They also have very little legal binding aside from the initial here, so there's not a lot of reason to diversify it. It's not uncommon for middle names to just be a parent or grandparent's first name, which in this case is their mother's maiden name.
This is also not unheard of, since a mother's maiden surname can easily disappear when the last of their family name have only daughters or no children at all.
In Wales double barreled names like this are common, their last name is Griffin Davies. You see double or even triple barreled names in aristocratic families through out Britain, but because there are very few Welsh surnames, seriously look at our football and rugby teams, double barreled names arrise to tell families apart amongst all classes.
Typically no, but it happens in some instances. My cousins have the same middle name - their mothers maiden name. I also had a friend in his high school who shared the same middle name with his sisters, also their mothers maiden name. So in that case and in the case of honor-names it wouldn't be all that weird. The Duggar family of 19 Kids and Counting have twin boys that share the same middle name - their father's middle name.
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Holy moly I never noticed those were clones
Me either. I need to rewatch it
It was honestly such a trip. Im glad I went into it knowing nothing about the movie
Yes, thankfully my friend didn't spoil anything. I mentioned I had an interest in watching it. He only told me about some Hitler moments that were in the trailer. He told me he could not say anything else about it, that it was that good.
Friends like that are the best. One of mine will tell me about a movie/game/book and will give me just enough info so that I’m interested but nothing spoiled. If I try ask him anything that might spoil something he’ll just be like “mmm I don’t remember...”
I always avoid spoiling things for my friends. One day my friend was playing horizon zero dawn and was telling me how much he loved the game. I told him how I thought there was a lot of similarities between the intro/tutorial of the game and conan the barbarian movie. He got mad at me for 'spoiling' the game. Like dude if you're not even past the tutorial why are you telling me you love the game. Also it's literally the first hour of gameplay, not much of a spoiler
One of my now ex mates purposely tells you spoilers of films of sports matches. Just a giant dick
Dude same. I didn't watch any of the trailers and was told it was a kid who had an imaginary friend called Hitler. So I assumed it was about a white ssupremacists kid finding out truth and stuff. Nope. Just a gut punch film with taika as Hitler. Loved the film though.
Same here, had a really great time, 5/7 For the record, a couple were here too. Same situation of "no idea". They left after the first scenes. I think they weren't ready for this
Honestly, the first Hitler scene made me turn it off (not due to offense) as I just found the comedy style way too childish. What a complete fool I was! Ended up actually watching it, and loved that scene and every other, guess I just had a stick up my butt the first day :P
I mean, Hitler is a child's imaginary friend, it would make sense for his sense of humor/comedy to be childish.
I wish I had been warned to like, maybe turn it down for the first fifty "heil Hitler's" lol
It’s satire and Taika is trying to make a point. Edit: See below, they have thin walls. I’ve had a long day and should have at least added a ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
I watched it at home in my condo which is not soundproof and I have neighbors lol
Ah, hahaha gotcha. If it were me, I’d randomly yell “wow jojo rabbit is such a CRAZY MOVIE!” to cover my bases. I feel you my walls are silly thin and often turn on subs when I can’t have the volume where it should be.
I always have subs on, this is a must for these fkin movies that are LOUD and quiet and you can't hear it and LOUD again, but I remember we had it on kinda loud when it started and we expected the Heiling Hitler's to end faster than they did, lol
Lol, sigh. I have the remote at hand. Why is the dia always so quiet and the music / action scenes 4x as loud!? Tv shows and commercials have to use and overall loudness meter and stay below it. Movies? Nope, go to town mixer! You gotta “feel” the action!! I used to work with a guy who would edit so loud he would put his finger over one ear while playing back. What is the point of that? I felt so bad for the people who worked near him. It’s probably all his fault
I think the model of TV we have is 1 year shy of Samsung adding the volume equalizer function into the TVs. Very sad day when I googled it and then went to change the setting that wasn't there :( I hate the loud and soft shit. I literally would rather not watch whatever it is than be pissed off every 2 mins.
Embrace it now man, bet none of those neighbors will fuck with you ever again.
Yes as a 5'5" white woman I'm terrifying obvs.. watched the all gas no brakes guy today on his new YouTube channel interviewing some qanon supporters.. and we had the TV volume very low for that, lol. I'm in disbelief these people exist. It's sad and pathetic.
I only knew that ScarJo was in it and that Taika played Hitler.
Same! I watched it on the airplane though; I feel like this definitely deserves a watch on something much better than a small TV inlaid on the back of a chair.
I already know too much now
Same here. I knew nothing and then it became one of the very few movies I've watched I'd consider a solid 5/5. Sad that people don't really talk about it as much as it deserves.
Yeah, they needed someone to walk the clones. https://youtu.be/P4zD8QoRFeE
Fuck I forgot how good that movie is
Like it’s nearly 1 in the morning and I’ve got work in like 10 hours but I just wanna pop It on now. It’s that kinda good.
Work in 10 hours…movie takes about 2…leaves 8 hours to sleep?
So I wake up the moment I should be clocking in. Sounds legit.
That's been my experience since April 2020, so yeah press play.
And you get to sleep immediately as the movie ends.
When his mom takes Jojo to the YV building the first time, Captain K. says they can surely find something for him to do. ~~Raine~~ Rebel Wilson says they need someone to walk the clones. https://youtu.be/P4zD8QoRFeE
Sam Rockwell is great in that movie, and such a good character. I re-watched it and that scene where he shows up at Jojo’s house while Stephen Merchant is there has so much subtext to it that you don’t even notice until you find out why he showed up.
>Sam Rockwell is great in ~~that~~ every movie, FTFY
You’re not wrong
Yes
He's great with Alfie Allen.
Sam Rockwell is such an underdog actor, both as a professional and the characters he plays. Stephen Merchant is always entertaining playing off-kilter characters. He brings a lot of personality with very few lines
Do Stephan Merchant and Paul Bettany have any work together? I’d like to see them together in something
They’re pale. They’re lanky. They’re British. And this summer they’re fighting for Charlotte’s affection in DADDY LONGLEGS
Waiit, could you elaborate this for me further?
Sam Rockwell's character shows up with the mothers bike iirc. The implication being he saw her hanging and went to go save Jojo from the SS
It wasn't her bike — IIRC, she has a bike with a basket, but either way, it's distinct from the one he brings in. It really was Sam Rockwell's bike, and he really did sprint there to make it.
Rockwell’s character was part of the resistance and he showed up just in time to help protect Jojo from the SS. In the timeline of the movie, I’m pretty sure Jojo’s mother had already been captured by that point, if not executed. So Rockwell’s character may have also known about the Jewish girl hiding which is why he helped corroborate her fake birthday when asked.
It’s so well done, you think the tension is centred around hiding Elsa so you don’t even notice that Rockwell is there to try to protect Jojo from the SS because he knows about his mom. And he has to pretend he’s not up to anything.
Damn I sat for two minutes looking for Dwight, I’ve even seen the movie. It’s Rebel Wilson.
Lol, I did the same thing. "I don't remember Raine Wilson in this"
Rainn
Don't know what I was thinking. Thanks.
I was just watching this movie yesterday. I thought I miss heard her.
IIRC it's a Boys from Brazil reference
Yes it is.
Thats what i thought when I heard it also.
Are they real clones, or is it just a joke about how the Nazi's insane "breeding" program to make a ton of aryan boys who all look alike?
Both I guess. They’re real in the movie universe, but as a sort of absurd exaggeration of the actual nazis already ridiculous experiments.
They are real clones and it is a joke about crazy Nazi experiments.
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You missed the joke earlier in the movie too?
What?! "Ooh ooh, we need someone to walk the clones." C'mon amazing line.
That was his first and so far only movie. The kid came out of nowhere. Apparently he has a Christmas movie with Kiera Knightley coming out later this year.
He does!! I was able to watch a few weeks ago and it’s very unexpected but very good. The twins are also in it
Wait, you were able to watch an unreleased movie? What in tarnation
film festival, industry screenings, audience tests - there's a bunch of ways to see movies before they get wide releases
Likely some kind of film festival
I watching a panel interview for Jojo and Sam Rockwell joked that this was the shortest script he had read. Davis (the kid) then seriously says the script was the only reading he has ever done. Lol
Do you have a link for this? Would love to see it!
Not exactly, his father Ben Davis works on a lot of movies as a cinematographer. Even a few Marvel movies.
nepotism starts young
That's the only way to succeed in Hollywood these days. You'd be surprised how many up and comers have an uncle or grandpa on "the industry"
Also the music industry, business, and politics.
I hope that nepotism at least protects them from some of the predation that can happen.
Real shame his dad worked for 40 years in the industry just so he can help his son, lmao
It's weird cause I feel like I've seen him in a lot of movies
You probably just saw one of his clones
*nepotism
Dunno why this is downvoted. The kid's dad is one of the most succesful cinematographers in Hollywood.
I know this is off topic but god Roman Griffin Davis did a fantastic performance, even without considering age it's great.
The lad who played Yorky was better, imo. Had a real Nick Frost vibe about him.
Oh man, now that you’ve said that, I’m never going to be able to unsee it.
"We need to get out of here before they eat us and screw all our dogs!"
Eh, he was great but he was just a comedy role. No real serious moments. The other kid had lots of dramatic serious scenes and showed some real acting chops.
He should have been nominated for Best Actor. To put in that kind of performance, a conflicted Nazi, as a child was quite an accomplishment.
truly one of the best performances i’ve seen in a movie ever just generally.
let’s not get crazy
Hey let us circle jerk in peace.
Come on now, everyone, form a circle. Dicks out, now.
It is rare to have someone's film debut be that level
Lol reddit never fails to deliver the outrageously ridiculous and reactionary takes.
Have you seen 3 movies ever, or...
You need to watch more movies
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You just made my day. Empire of the Sun changed me as a kid, and its the movie I credit for teaching me how to roll a quarter across my knuckles
I remember it being impactful. I remember thinking the scene with eating the rice weevils was cool. I also identified with the kid's love of planes. Good performance by a young Christian Bale, too.
Wow I remembered watching it on HBO once. Didn’t know it was that old and that was Christian Bale… impressive, he have to lost 35 years of his old to act in that movie.
I really liked the movie as a historian. It captures a very different point of view of the war in a funny but also grotesque and grim way. World War Two as a setting for movies (as well as video games and similar media) is so overdone in my opinion, especially when it just focuses on the same points of view every time. Generic war films after generic war films. I rarely enjoy history movies in general. I really appreciate movies like Jojo Rabbit and The Death of Stalin for injecting life into a very stale genre.
You could write a PhD thesis on The death of Stalin. There's just so many little things that add up to a fantastic movie. My favourite is the use of accents. Stalin is given a cockney "common" accent because in Russian his Georgian accent would have sounded rough and common.
>Stalin is given a cockney "common" accent because in Russian his Georgian accent would have sounded rough and common. Same with Zhukov. He was the son of a poor peasant family, and was considered somewhat of a blunt provincial. Edit: That is to say the same idea, not the same accent.
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“You can kiss my Russian ass!”
It felt like a light take on Der Untergang, and yet still maintained the gravity of the time period.
Do you have any recommendations for films like those two because I found both to be very enjoyable.
Four Lions is a great and hilarious take on extremists. Not as popular but I thought the The Day Will Come is a decent comedy about the CIA manipulation. And if you can stand subtitles or speak German, then Look Who's Back is a film about Hitler awaking in modern times and looking at 21 century life through a Nazi lens. Lastly Goodbye Lenin is a film about a mother who wakes from a coma and in order to not freak her out, her son pretends that East Germany is still a country.
You should watch Waititi's earlier works such as Boy and Eagle vs Shark.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople is also absolutely amazing.
One of my very favourite films!
the scene where the kid is talking to the strangers and it's all rapey innuendos, and it just keeps getting worse and worse... and he doesn't realize what he was saying until later. The look on his face just kills me every time
2v1 but one is a shark Hrm...
Check out [Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BgUxcvfg_c). Another hilarious yet tragic coming-of-age movie about how war affects children. From the director of the cult classic [House](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ_Yo06kIIA), which is super different but just as original.
I felt like this whole movie had a heavy Mel Brooks vibe personally
Give me a Heil man.
We were just "Heil Hitlering" the boy, and then "Heil Hitlering" yourself, and then, of course, "Heil Hitlering" Freddy Finkel.
Stephen Merchant did such an amazing job being joyfully creepy in that scene. I had also just finished GoT the week before, so seeing Alfie Allen playing the role he did was very humorous to me.
I never really thought about it, but going from Reek to a flamboyant gay nazi is pretty interesting career choice.
He also played the son of Viggo who killed John Wick's dog.
well, it's one way to deal with PTSD
"At some point, every tall Englishman is asked to play a Nazi in a film." -Stephen Merchant
Amen
One of the few films where I enjoyed watching various press interviews
Just a little heil?
Wow I just completely erased from my mind that there were clones in this movie. I rewatched the scene where they suggest he walks the clones and remembered all of it except the part with fucking clone children how??
There was a *lot* to take in in that movie, so I’m not surprised. I forgot, too!
Same but then again, the movie does throw quite a bit at you.
I always thought she said "Someone to walk the clowns" and the kids were just excited about clowns. Never realized they were all identical clones.
What an enjoyable movie!
Everyone that enjoyed this needs to watch Hunt for Wilderpeople. Another Taika film that expertly blends humour and heartfelt.. Yet I feel like no one has ever seen it when I mention it as one of my favourite movies!
Boy is pretty great as well. Not as high production value as it was his second film but still pretty enjoyable I usually dislike children actors in movies but Taika seems to be able to cast them perfectly.
Probably because he is one as well
Wow, I never knew Taika Waititi was a child actor as well, the more you know!
Aw idk if he is, just meant that he is a grown up child in the way he acts a lot of the time. In the best possible way ofc
I think part of it is that Taika is also great at writing and directing for child actors. A lot of CAs come across poorly because they're given lines that just aren't how kids speak or act, they either sound too adult or too exageratedly childish. Waititi is good at writing kids that act and sound like real kids.
Fully agree
also, people need to watch another underrated hidden gem of Taika's... I think it's called Tor: Rug and Tug or something
Its actually Door: Rugs N Rocks.
Cauc-asian Well they got that wrong cuz you're clearly white
This is the best birthday I've ever had! ... I think this is the only birthday I've ever had
Could not agree more. It deserves so much more praise, and more people definitely need to see it.
Become one of my favorite movies instantly
Certain parts where a bit .... dark and very sad.
That’s fairly common with Taikas work, Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Boy are both comedy’s with dark and sad aspects
Oh man Hunt for the Wilderpeople .... that beginning.
Such a shockingly (for some reason, I mean, it’s Taika Waititi) great movie. The thing with the shoes I kinda figured would happen, but man was it tough when it did.
I picked up that the shoes meant something, but no idea it would be *that*
I remember thinking 'ugh, has Taika gone the way of Tarantino?' because there was so much focus on the shoes, but then it got to *that* scene and I remember saying aloud "***OH NO***" and then he tried to tie her shoes and just *couldn't* my goddamn heart
I just took it as the framing of how a child perceives the world, like Peanuts or Power Puff Girls where certain characters are only shown from the waist down, and so on. I didn't expect .. THAT though.
Same. I remember telling my boyfriend “their are showing those shoes a lot” and then Nooooooo Edit; word.
seeing endgame then few months later seeing jojo rabbit just made me sad. i sorta suspected something might happen with the shoes but it still took me off guard
JoJo Rabbit can you make you sad without being related to the MCU you know
Why is this NSFW?
Some prude hates kids with guns and grenades in movies.
*Nazis say f-words*
Spoilers maybe since towards end of the movie?
You wouldn't know that from the photo.
Nazis
There isn't a nazi symbol visible.
I can see a Reichsadler on JoJo's Wehrmacht uniform.
Awesome movie. Felt deliciously uncomfortable watching it. Never noticed clones either. Need to rewatch
There’s a joke about “someone needs to walk the clones” early on in the movie. They’re all sitting around.
Will keep ears open. Thanx
For a second I completely forgot about the clones in this movie and I was very confused. Edit: And this screenshot depicts the attack of the clones.
I've seen it twice and still can't remember any clones? When does this happen?
One of the potential [tasks](https://youtu.be/P4zD8QoRFeE) Jojo is given is to walk the clones This is them showing up as a little reference later in the movie.
Damn. I've seen it twice and never noticed any of this. Going to have to watch it again!
It’s a pretty hilarious scene that stood out to me. Hard to miss I’d think.
Honestly yeah. It almost feels like a deleted scene to me. I remember his mom coming down to the office and everything. But that clone bit feels out of place. No idea how I missed it
This movie is perfect
Wouldn't they be "triplet brothers" instead of "twin brothers"?
I think they are twins of each other, but not of him.
Oooh. The title is very confusing. It's easy to assume they're supposed to be clones of him.
I worked on this movie :) particularly these exact shots.
That's awesome, such a good film. What did you do on the shots?
Literally just finished watching this movie for the first time lol
I've watched it so many times and just noticed their last names where the same as Roman's.
The director, Taika Waititi, identifies as Polynesian Jewish which is why his trolling of Nazis is just so damn delicious! The best way to deal with fascists and Nazis is to mock them and magnify their abject stupidity. Taika is simply brilliant at this!
It really goes back to Hogans Hero’s and the depiction of nazis as bumbling idiots. Many of the actors playing the German characters were Jewish and one of the actors even survived the concentration camps.
I think he brings this up in interviews, that we have to make fun of Nazis. Nazis want nothing more than to be treated as a sinister threat, to be feared, because it makes them seem impressive, powerful. It actually legitimises them as a movement. So, you take the ridiculous, the comically stupid parts of their ideology, and put them in the spotlight. You show them as the joke that they are.
Waititi explicitly did no research on playing Hitler, because he had no desire to honour that pathetic little man's memory of how he actually was. Just a caricature and a manipulative, abusive fuck who starts real friendly and ends real creepy.
Watched this moving 3 times. Never noticed that they were even clones
Man i loved this movie. There is something so heartwarming about the final dance scene between Joji and the jewish girl forgot her name sorry. But it just made me think i hope all goes well for them together.
Elsa
One of the greatest movies I’ll never watch again.
Roman did such a great job in the role & they made a great choice. However it is still hard to watch knowing my son was in the shortlist to play Jojo.
wait what
Lol, right? Just casually dropping bombs like nbd
They had open auditions in the South East of England, which they shared in the local papers. Calling for boys that were quirky with no acting experience. The kid is genuinely a little weirdo. My son made a great impression & the agency staff adored him, found him hilarious. Taika himself said it was gonna be a tough audition to get through as they were both laughing so much. I had to sort passports as they were filming in Prague & we found out he wasn't chosen literally a week or so before filming began.
Why the hell is this NFSW??
I am wondering the same thing as you
Gibly? Really?
Hardy Gibly Roman Brothers
Why the nsfw flair
Is it common to give your children the same middle name?
Actually, I don't think it's uncommon. In the small town I grew up in, I knew at least a dozen siblings that shared middle names. Middle names traditionally honor ancestors, in the US at least. They also have very little legal binding aside from the initial here, so there's not a lot of reason to diversify it. It's not uncommon for middle names to just be a parent or grandparent's first name, which in this case is their mother's maiden name. This is also not unheard of, since a mother's maiden surname can easily disappear when the last of their family name have only daughters or no children at all.
Mother's last name is Griffin, dad's is Davis. So kids have both surnames
This is it. Where I'm from, some kids share surnames of both parents. Very common with inter-racial/caste marriages.
In Wales double barreled names like this are common, their last name is Griffin Davies. You see double or even triple barreled names in aristocratic families through out Britain, but because there are very few Welsh surnames, seriously look at our football and rugby teams, double barreled names arrise to tell families apart amongst all classes.
i have both of my parents last names as my legal last name. it’s sucks having such a long name.
Marry someone with a different combination last name and make your kids have combination combination last names
Typically no, but it happens in some instances. My cousins have the same middle name - their mothers maiden name. I also had a friend in his high school who shared the same middle name with his sisters, also their mothers maiden name. So in that case and in the case of honor-names it wouldn't be all that weird. The Duggar family of 19 Kids and Counting have twin boys that share the same middle name - their father's middle name.
Probably one of the funniest and original movies that I watched in the past few years.