Riefenstahl- Olympia Diving Sequence
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A section from Leni Riefenstahl’s film of the 1936 Olympics. A supreme example of editing where physics are transcended and somehow weightlessness is achieved.
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Yes. That’s why the Nazi’s set out to kill all homoesexuals. Rothberath already told you the true purpose of the video.
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what is this song called?
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This has nothing to do with homosexualitx, but with aesthetics of the human body.
I feel sorry for you, if you can´t understand it.
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I love that Hitler “the gay” loved this. It’s like the gayest gay film ever. So many NAZI’s were and still are the GAYEST ever. Look at their sites on the net. Hardly any women and just a bunch of closeted gays.
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I love it more with a different soundtrack. Rammstein song Stripped. check it out. they used for their music video the ending part of this video and some other probably from Olympia too.
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Simply amazing. Yes, she was a willful & functioning pawn, but the quality of the work is simply stunning.
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Her films were controversial, yet brilliant. I had a cinema professor at SC in the 70’s who worked for the German movie industry in the40’s. He escaped with copies of Olympia and Triumph, and showed them as a final exam at night. Incredible experience I will never forget. The exilaration I felt at the end of both films. Breathtaking.
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I fuckin love how this was used in the video of “Stripped” by Rammstein
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amazing.i had never seen this until i watched a rammstein music video..the diving sequence was so awesome i had to watch the entirety..thanks for posting.
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Beautiful work, utterly superb. Cinematedman is quite correct in pointing out that this was done with the crude technology of 70 years ago, and represents superb skill, almost totally unaided by technology.
Did you notice the one dive on which she cut to an underwater camera? I believe Leni Riefenstahl was the first to use that technique.
LR was a brilliant cinematographer, and the fact that she was hounded all her life by political accusers is nothing short of tragedy.
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Sublime. Far too many people today have no idea how difficult this was to film, let alone in the artistic way she captured the events.
This was done without reflex lenses, zooms, silent cameras, auto focus, nothing really, except a very crude apparatus by today’s standards and tons and tons of skill.
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Stalin and his heavily Jewish cabinet were the greatest mass murders…40 million before WW2 started. What is with this myth that Hitler was the mad man of history and what in the hell was the U.S. and the U.K. doing by being allies with their future enemy? Hitler was kind compared to Stalin and his Jewish crony mass murderers.
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Lovely! It is very well captured…as if in flight!
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Un chef d’oeuvre pour l’epoque !
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Brutal!!!
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Also, remember that when this was made, no one had done anything like it. So it is original and groundbreaking. That you were unimpressed by it shows how big an impact on cinematography it has made!
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cool thanks. I can dig it a little more now.
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Thanks for this beautifull video…
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The power is not in any individual shot but in the rhythm and the movement of the whole. The entire thing is built out of repetition that slowly evolves. It moves from, at the start, shots that simply document the event (from afar, crowd shown) to, finally, shots cut so that the divers seem to almost fly. From 3:35 on you never even see the water. The crowd is gone. There is only the figure and the sky. For me, there is almost the feeling that the world has been transcended. A little goofy, yes.
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Amazingly shot
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can you explain why? To me it is a bunch of uninteresting shots of divers in slow motion. Anyone with a 16mm camera can do this. I’m not accusing, just curious.
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This, in my opinion, is quite possibly the four most spectacular minutes in film history.