NEW YORK: Adolf Hitler, for years a vessel of frustration in a popular Internet parody, has been quieted. Downfall, a German film released in 2004 about Hitler’s last days, has been adopted for wildly popular YouTube clips that have spanned mock rants about topics as varied as playing Xbox videogames to Kanye West to Apple’s new iPad.
Every spoof is from the same scene in the film: A furious, defeated Hitler, played by Bruno Ganz, unleashes an impassioned, angry speech to his remaining staff, huddled with him in his bunker.