I keep seeing him doing his line from “Red October” - “I’m a politician, which means I’m a cheat and a liar…and when I’m not kissin’ babies, I’m stealin’ their lollipops!”
For all those referring to Traudl Junge saying that Hopkins had the best Hitler Portrayal, keep in mind that she died 2 years before Downfall came out.
@mike bond : "The man was no monster, and certainIy did not commit greater crimes than ChurchiII, RooseveIt or StaIin" If you actually believe that (except for Stalin), how sad for you.
@jstrahan2 your point ??? It was her testimony that used to make the film. Every description people like her, mische, and Speer gave to O'Donnell to write the book, was dutifully observed, either as notes or actual script parts. There will forever be movies made, but most will articulate how they see fit, whether accurate or not
MrSniperdude01: My 'point' is that Traudl Junge was referring to a 'portrayal'. Yes, Downfall was based, in part, on her memoirs. However, she could not have seen Bruno Ganz's 'portrayal', because she died before the role was even cast. (Ganz does do a better Hitler, imo)
To be honest, the Real Hitler himself had a lot of cartoonish Qualities, Bruno Ganz himself once said he hold back so it was less cartoonish, but in the last weeks of Hitler he was on heavy Medication and had Parkinson and mental breakdowns, so i would not call Hopkins portrayal as bad. Sometimes Real Events are more cartoonish than portayed in Der Untergang. Have someone ever saw a longer Speech of Hitler on UA-cam, and than imagine that with a mental breakdown....i think Hopkins nailed it
I heard an interview with the director of The Bunker in which he said there were moments when Hopkins' delivery was so dead-on that the entire crew would remain silent and slack-jawed long after the scene was cut. The frenzied delivery, the mannerisms, the vocal and physical tics - one of the best performances you're ever going to see... (and yet it was Piper Laurie, as the kool-aid drinking Magda Goebbels, who was nominated for an Emmy - go figure!)
there's a newer movie about young Hitler and his rise to power in the 1930s and I think the actor in it took some notes out of Tony's performance in The Bunker
Kevin Mangold this is cringey. Out of context I would think it was a comedy sketch. That's not how Hitler acted in private, there's no evidence to support such an interpretation.
Kevin Mangold no offense but that's what the 'director' said. There's a REASON this film got condemned to zero air play. It's one of the worst performances I've ever seen from a great actor. It's honestly a comedy sketch. You never hear about this ghastly film and for good reason. Hopkins' portrayl is absolutely appalling.
The worst character in Anthony Hopkins' career. As always, Hollywood have put too many ideological feelings in the movie. They wanted to show Hitler as just a maniac, a lunatic. Without the care of being realistic. Der Untergang (Downfall) is much realistic. It shows an egocentric and manipulative Hitler, the way he really was. And Bruno Ganz is just absolutely fantastic as Hitler. I really recommend everybody to watch it. It is much better then this Hollywood rubbish.
I disagree, I think he played it brilliantly. I read speers book inside the third reich and i think this is a pretty close portrayal of the shambling figure that was hitler in his final days. Every detail was carefully demonstrated brilliantly by hopkins. But as always hopkins added to it, using his special gift.
I love both. Certainly Bruno Ganz will forever be best remembered for his Hitler Portrayal (tho largely based on how viral it's gone with Memes & parodies) Hopkins is so epic it's difficult to say what he'll be best remembered for... Perhaps as Dr Lecter. Also, The Bunker was adapted from a book. The writer of which exclusively interviewed every living bunker survivor that served Hitler who could be tracked down. It was their descriptions that Hopkins used in his role. Like or Don't like, dude's portrayal is accurate
@@DC-zi6se I think In hitlers final days, the drugs he was taking and the situation he put himself in made him a shambling figure who no longer had the qualities that made him leader of Germany. I've read 4 books on this, and the character he portrays in the movie follows the eye witness reports to the letter. Of course no of us were there, and so all we really have to go by is what people said.
This is just another example of horrendous miscasting of an English actor as Adolf Hitler. Alec Guiness also played Hitler in 1973, and did arguably an even worse performance, coming across merely as a neurotic Englishman rather than as a manic Hitler.
And how is this bad? He made me feel sympathy in his passion for building up Germany, dedicating his entire life to saving the country from serious depression in the first scene, but then going on his insane rant towards the end reminded me that he was a very evil man who despised Jewish people. All throughout, Hopkins portrayed that he was very delusional in his talk of victory, no matter what. If that's not good acting, I don't know what is. It doesn't matter about the accent, if the character is well fleshed out and believable, it makes up for any accent inaccuracy. It's like Kevin Costner as Robin Hood in Prince of Thieves with Alan Rickman - my favourite version of Robin Hood, despite using an American accent. His confidence was enough there.
Anthony Hopkins's potrayal of perpetually stoned Hitler is most likely based on interrogation of Hitler's physcian Theodore Morell and investigation medical diary he had kept. Turns out Morell was quite a dr. feelgood. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Morell#Substances_administered_to_Hitler Heroin-mixes, cocaine, methamphetamine, opiates....you name it, he had it. There's actually a seen where he's shown to administer cocaine via eyedrops to Hitler.
Albert Speer was probably the closest, if not the only true friend that Hitler ever had. Speer disobeyed numerous direct orders from Hitler but was never shot or extremely punished. The man was a war criminal for sure, but just saying....
Goebbles was more a loual fanatic to the cause of national socialism than a friend. I doubt he would’ve gotten any mercy had there been a hint of betrayal just like there was none for Goering and Himmler (Hitler just couldn’t get to them).
@@simoregragui3647 Goebbels was his closest friend. He agreed to euthanize his entire kinder, and commit suicide rather than leave, and he was allowed to flee with his family. He chose to say no to escape attempt and yes to certain death just to stay loyal
I watched the whole movie today ,such a great performance by anthony hopkins ,those of you who haven't watched it yet and are just commenting by this 5 min ,better watch the movie first .
Dare I say it, but I find Anthony Hopkins' portrayal too... psychotic! The man who gave us Hannibal Lecter overdid it a bit here. It can be safely argued that Hopkins is too powerful for the role. Both his voice, and the overdone body shaking. If it were just the rage, that would be one thing. But that plus these other two puts it over the top. It's all about Ganz (and Guinness) for me.
for all of you laughing at his acting，if you have read those memoirs of people close to hitler during the final years of hitler，you will realize hopkins version of hitler is actually the most accurate one。
I'm sorry this is bullshit, a poor performance and not believable, can't bloody understand what he's saying. Ganz portrayal of Hitler seemed eerily accurate, especially his hand movements.
Then i recommend you read the memoir written by Traudl Junge，after reading that book i find this version to be the most accurate represention of how hitlers was like in the bunker，imo。
I wouldn't recommend anyone read any memoirs. Although I read Speer's... Memoirs are opposite of diaries, made in retrospective. One can falsify a diary but one can for sure say whatever he wants, and even be politically correct in memoirs. And that is what you have in memoirs. Politically correct bullshit!
I usually enjoy Anthony Hopkins’ acting. At his best, he portrays characters who slowly go insane. But his portrayal of Hitler - sadly - is overdone and comes off as more of a caricature of Hitler than a believable Hitler, although perhaps this was more the fault of the script than of the acting. Hopkins worked with what he was given with, and what he was given was simply not very good or historically accurate. The Bruno Ganz Hitler imo is the more historically accurate - and believable Hitler - by miles. Aloha 🤙🏼
@@Enzo012 Nope. The script is a Hollywoodized, Allied propaganda version of Hitler. The real Hitler rarely raised his voice in anger infront of other people and was polite to *everyone* regardless of class, race or occupation.
@@lucasgrey9794 He was generally portrayed like that in this/these films but he had bit of breakdown at this point when he finally realised that war was lost. This scene based on eyewitness accounts at the time.
It only comes across as awkward sometimes because of the positioning of the camera angles and the timing of them. This is the directors fault and the small budget.
@@Madcat62680 Downfall was and is awesome without a doubt. It had the accuracy and extra attention to detail that a made for TV movie back in the 80's could not. Are you sure you're not saying Bruno Ganz is better just because Downfall was in German?
I watched this many times as a history student for life comparing facts and performance. If Hopkins could speak German this is the best....but downfall leaves you breathless...today's movie recording technology would make the Bunker mind blowing.....the Bunker vs. Downfall is 50/50....two masterpieces...
@@smudger671 I don’t, but I suspect you have a point. Nonetheless, it’s very _very_ theatrical, so many people think it’s too far. Bruno Ganz nailed the balance perfectly, _but_ I still like Hopkins. 2:32 and 4:10 are excellent!
Excellent piece of drama and this portrayal maximises the paranoid and tyrannical outbursts we are told Hitler had many times especially when the pressure became unsustainable for his delusional master plan
I watched this miniseries when it originally aired. I still think that the portrayal by Hopkins is compelling, but this is clearly stage theatre acting, not the subtle film performance that he gives in The Elephant Man. Looking back on this after several decades, my major complaint is that Hopkins looks too young and healthy in several scenes.
to those commenting this was just a tv movie, not a big hollywood £50 million production like downfall.yes it is a bit of a miscast primarily because of a lack of a german accent.
Claude Stark Yes we know... And I love him starring The Silence of the Lambs. But nevertheless he fails at acting an austrian... Its just overacting of glichees. Especially how they speak.
snickepie .DE Ah yes, the glitches. Well, considering the host of mental and more importantly his physical problems he was was experiencing at the time I would say he was spot on. I don't think anyone has ever said Anthony Hopkins was over acting. You might be the first. I would suggest reading how his physical state was at the time, I am sure Mr. Hopkins did.
Hopkins actually won the Best Actor Emmy for this thing in 1981. He beat Peter O'Toole and Peter Strauss in Masada, and Toshiro Mifune and Richard Chamberlain in Shogun. Remember those big event mini-series? O'Toole should've won...
There is nobody that can play an unhinged Hitler , but Hitler. The greatest actors in the world can only touch on it. Hopkins could have pulled it off perhaps 15-20 years after this movie was made but his acting had not matured to the Master of his craft at the time of filming.
Old Hoppy plays a good Hitler, however at this time in WWII, Hitler's left hand was trembling badly, his posture was stooped, his head hung down, his skin was discolored, his eyes rheumy. Hard to get that into a movie, I suppose.
Yes, in the film "The Bunker" (1981), there is a scene where Adolf Hitler, portrayed by Anthony Hopkins, becomes visibly angry. The film focuses on the final days of Hitler's life, as he is holed up in his underground bunker in Berlin. It explores the deteriorating mental and physical state of Hitler as the war nears its end. While I cannot provide a detailed analysis of specific scenes from the film, it is worth noting that the portrayal of Hitler's emotions and behavior in movies is often fictionalized and based on interpretations by the filmmakers.
Not a patch on Bruno Ganz. Anthony Hopkins is brilliant in his own right, but in this particular role Bruno Ganz set a standard that made all earlier attempts to interpret this character seem like parodies.
@@tacobell6826 It might have been an award winning performance but that doesn't mean it's an accurate depiction. Ganz was vastly better and more accurate. Downfall was a superior movie in every respect but being foreign made got little notice in US.
@@tacobell6826 Actually... Donwfall(or Der Untergang) DID WON the Academy Oscar for best foreign movie. I don't remember this movie to win any Oscars, though.
Might not be the best Hitler performance, but certainly he gave it more hard work and effort than any other actor that ever played Hitler. Look how hard he’s trying poor guy.
Amazing performance by Anthony Hopkins playing Nicolas Cage playing Adolf Hitler.
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That is hilarious!😁
Hahaha
This annihilated me a little bit.
Lol dude that’s funny
Hopkins goes back and forth between a German and English accent
When he's angry its pure thick affected German accent, and when quite or normal talking voice its pure Oxbridge
Man, what a pro Richard Jordan (as Albert Speer) keeping a straight face throughout Hopkins' performance.
Lol!!!😁
I keep seeing him doing his line from “Red October” - “I’m a politician, which means I’m a cheat and a liar…and when I’m not kissin’ babies, I’m stealin’ their lollipops!”
Hitler was really like this.
2:31 That's my professor when I say something wrong
I love the look on the other guys face at 2:39.
😁
For all those referring to Traudl Junge saying that Hopkins had the best Hitler Portrayal, keep in mind that she died 2 years before Downfall came out.
@mike bond : "The man was no monster, and certainIy did not commit greater crimes than ChurchiII, RooseveIt or StaIin" If you actually believe that (except for Stalin), how sad for you.
Clearly she never saw The Producers.
@jstrahan2 your point ???
It was her testimony that used to make the film. Every description people like her, mische, and Speer gave to O'Donnell to write the book, was dutifully observed, either as notes or actual script parts.
There will forever be movies made, but most will articulate how they see fit, whether accurate or not
This doesn't come even 'close' to Downfall
MrSniperdude01: My 'point' is that Traudl Junge was referring to a 'portrayal'. Yes, Downfall was based, in part, on her memoirs. However, she could not have seen Bruno Ganz's 'portrayal', because she died before the role was even cast. (Ganz does do a better Hitler, imo)
From 1:46 to 1:49 Hopkins' face is like "The fuck did I just do? Nobody is gonna believe my acting"
Looks like he was trying not to laugh
This film looks like a mel brooks parody of Downfall but made 30 years earlier
Hitler almost went full Gollum at 1:39.
tony is still keeping his chill stare even when he plays hitler having a rage attack.
@2:39 He is like WTF I didn't know that I signed up for a comedy sketch!
It looks like a bad SNL sketch without the laugh track
hes doing a really good john cleese impression
LOL! I though a recognized the style!
I AM NOT A RACIALIST.
To be honest, the Real Hitler himself had a lot of cartoonish Qualities, Bruno Ganz himself once said he hold back so it was less cartoonish, but in the last weeks of Hitler he was on heavy Medication and had Parkinson and mental breakdowns, so i would not call Hopkins portrayal as bad. Sometimes Real Events are more cartoonish than portayed in Der Untergang. Have someone ever saw a longer Speech of Hitler on UA-cam, and than imagine that with a mental breakdown....i think Hopkins nailed it
Yeah. And for someone who actually is cartoonish, why would you impersonate that person without being cartoonish?
I heard an interview with the director of The Bunker in which he said there were moments when Hopkins' delivery was so dead-on that the entire crew would remain silent and slack-jawed long after the scene was cut. The frenzied delivery, the mannerisms, the vocal and physical tics - one of the best performances you're ever going to see... (and yet it was Piper Laurie, as the kool-aid drinking Magda Goebbels, who was nominated for an Emmy - go figure!)
there's a newer movie about young Hitler and his rise to power in the 1930s and I think the actor in it took some notes out of Tony's performance in The Bunker
He won the emmy for lead actor
Kevin Mangold this is cringey. Out of context I would think it was a comedy sketch. That's not how Hitler acted in private, there's no evidence to support such an interpretation.
Kevin Mangold no offense but that's what the 'director' said. There's a REASON this film got condemned to zero air play. It's one of the worst performances I've ever seen from a great actor. It's honestly a comedy sketch. You never hear about this ghastly film and for good reason. Hopkins' portrayl is absolutely appalling.
Must have been a different movie than this one.
The worst character in Anthony Hopkins' career. As always, Hollywood have put too many ideological feelings in the movie. They wanted to show Hitler as just a maniac, a lunatic. Without the care of being realistic. Der Untergang (Downfall) is much realistic. It shows an egocentric and manipulative Hitler, the way he really was. And Bruno Ganz is just absolutely fantastic as Hitler. I really recommend everybody to watch it. It is much better then this Hollywood rubbish.
I disagree, I think he played it brilliantly. I read speers book inside the third reich and i think this is a pretty close portrayal of the shambling figure that was hitler in his final days. Every detail was carefully demonstrated brilliantly by hopkins. But as always hopkins added to it, using his special gift.
I love both. Certainly Bruno Ganz will forever be best remembered for his Hitler Portrayal (tho largely based on how viral it's gone with Memes & parodies)
Hopkins is so epic it's difficult to say what he'll be best remembered for... Perhaps as Dr Lecter.
Also, The Bunker was adapted from a book. The writer of which exclusively interviewed every living bunker survivor that served Hitler who could be tracked down. It was their descriptions that Hopkins used in his role. Like or Don't like, dude's portrayal is accurate
@@grahamkelly8299 if you disagree with what he said, you're an idiot. This looks like an SNL parody. Straight out hot garbage acting. 🤮🤮🤮
@@MrSniperdude01 no it isn't, Hopkins' portrayal is a joke.
@@DC-zi6se I think In hitlers final days, the drugs he was taking and the situation he put himself in made him a shambling figure who no longer had the qualities that made him leader of Germany. I've read 4 books on this, and the character he portrays in the movie follows the eye witness reports to the letter. Of course no of us were there, and so all we really have to go by is what people said.
bruno ganz > hopkins as hitler
Atleast Bruno Ganz speaks German.
im sick of ppl mentioning Ganz n comparing all hitlers to him
Billy James Because Ganz is the best
Untergang was much better than this overall. Hopkins did a good job but Bruno was much better.
Alec Guinness> Bruno Ganz
2:30 Hopkins be like “I’m getting that mothafuttin Oscar!”
Best comedy ever 😂
2:31 that wheeze tho
Every great actor has at least one bad role
This is just another example of horrendous miscasting of an English actor as Adolf Hitler. Alec Guiness also played Hitler in 1973, and did arguably an even worse performance, coming across merely as a neurotic Englishman rather than as a manic Hitler.
And how is this bad? He made me feel sympathy in his passion for building up Germany, dedicating his entire life to saving the country from serious depression in the first scene, but then going on his insane rant towards the end reminded me that he was a very evil man who despised Jewish people. All throughout, Hopkins portrayed that he was very delusional in his talk of victory, no matter what. If that's not good acting, I don't know what is. It doesn't matter about the accent, if the character is well fleshed out and believable, it makes up for any accent inaccuracy.
It's like Kevin Costner as Robin Hood in Prince of Thieves with Alan Rickman - my favourite version of Robin Hood, despite using an American accent. His confidence was enough there.
I had an idea for a "Silence of the Lambs" fanfic where Lecter succumbed to dementia and believed he was Hitler, quoting lines from this movie.
I don’t care what anyone says, this is a highly entertaining performance
He will defeat them all on the day Hannibal Lecter becomes a vegetarian.
Was Hitler a full on vegetarian or just a vegetarian who sometimes indulged in pescetarianism?
2:31 Hittle-Pittle in looney mode! 😆
After Bruno Ganz, every other performances look like just imitations.
Seeing all these performances reminds me of the Springtime for Hitler auditions scene from The Producers.
Was he drunk the entire time he filmed this???
Anthony Hopkins's potrayal of perpetually stoned Hitler is most likely based on interrogation of Hitler's physcian Theodore Morell and investigation medical diary he had kept. Turns out Morell was quite a dr. feelgood. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Morell#Substances_administered_to_Hitler Heroin-mixes, cocaine, methamphetamine, opiates....you name it, he had it. There's actually a seen where he's shown to administer cocaine via eyedrops to Hitler.
@@Ruosteinenknight it's a wonder the fucker didn't over dose
@@madeinAmericasince-rz9cp “oh no, mein fuhrer hast ovahdosed on ze heroin. I shall administer ze amphetamine!”
Hitler had Parkinson's and tended to abuse drugs so get into the maniac personality, that's what Hopkins did.
He wasn't drunk, but he was going through some extraordinary stress and constant mental breakdowns.
Albert Speer was probably the closest, if not the only true friend that Hitler ever had. Speer disobeyed numerous direct orders from Hitler but was never shot or extremely punished. The man was a war criminal for sure, but just saying....
Walther Hewel (25 March 1904[1] - 2 May 1945)
Goebbels stayed loyal till the end
Goebbles was more a loual fanatic to the cause of national socialism than a friend.
I doubt he would’ve gotten any mercy had there been a hint of betrayal just like there was none for Goering and Himmler (Hitler just couldn’t get to them).
@@simoregragui3647 Goebbels was his closest friend. He agreed to euthanize his entire kinder, and commit suicide rather than leave, and he was allowed to flee with his family. He chose to say no to escape attempt and yes to certain death just to stay loyal
wtf...this is parody without editing..
nonsense...be quiet
@@TheBlueCream nonsense on your side......be quiet
I watched this 30 years ago and the one part of the film I recall is "the war is not lost" rant.
I watched the whole movie today ,such a great performance by anthony hopkins ,those of you who haven't watched it yet and are just commenting by this 5 min ,better watch the movie first .
Dare I say it, but I find Anthony Hopkins' portrayal too... psychotic! The man who gave us Hannibal Lecter overdid it a bit here. It can be safely argued that Hopkins is too powerful for the role. Both his voice, and the overdone body shaking. If it were just the rage, that would be one thing. But that plus these other two puts it over the top. It's all about Ganz (and Guinness) for me.
Bruno Ganz and Anthony Hopkins gave the best Hitler performances to date.
Hopkins and Guinness, best resemblance. Ganz, best performance.
Anthony Hopkins is Such a Talented Actor his Portrayal of Adolf Hitler as a Megalomaniac was True!
for all of you laughing at his acting，if you have read those memoirs of people close to hitler during the final years of hitler，you will realize hopkins version of hitler is actually the most accurate one。
I'm sorry this is bullshit, a poor performance and not believable, can't bloody understand what he's saying. Ganz portrayal of Hitler seemed eerily accurate, especially his hand movements.
Then i recommend you read the memoir written by Traudl Junge，after reading that book i find this version to be the most accurate represention of how hitlers was like in the bunker，imo。
what? a hitler with an english speaking german accent who sounds like a moron. No frailty to his body, no issues with his hand... sounds real accurate
+libindi1989 That's what Downfall was based on lol
I wouldn't recommend anyone read any memoirs. Although I read Speer's... Memoirs are opposite of diaries, made in retrospective. One can falsify a diary but one can for sure say whatever he wants, and even be politically correct in memoirs. And that is what you have in memoirs. Politically correct bullshit!
Anthony Hopkins, one of the best actors there are..
Yes he is JUST NOT HERE
I usually enjoy Anthony Hopkins’ acting. At his best, he portrays characters who slowly go insane. But his portrayal of Hitler - sadly - is overdone and comes off as more of a caricature of Hitler than a believable Hitler, although perhaps this was more the fault of the script than of the acting. Hopkins worked with what he was given with, and what he was given was simply not very good or historically accurate.
The Bruno Ganz Hitler imo is the more historically accurate - and believable Hitler - by miles.
Aloha 🤙🏼
I agree
The script was kind of what Hitler said and did though.
Nobody truly knows who Hitler truly was.
@@Enzo012 Nope. The script is a Hollywoodized, Allied propaganda version of Hitler. The real Hitler rarely raised his voice in anger infront of other people and was polite to *everyone* regardless of class, race or occupation.
@@lucasgrey9794 He was generally portrayed like that in this/these films but he had bit of breakdown at this point when he finally realised that war was lost. This scene based on eyewitness accounts at the time.
This is a fountain of memes
It only comes across as awkward sometimes because of the positioning of the camera angles and the timing of them. This is the directors fault and the small budget.
Genius acting.
You actually get afraid that Anthony Hopkins will perform himself straight into a heart attack.
He literally gets red faced with rage.
Bruno ganz is better
@@Madcat62680 Downfall was and is awesome without a doubt. It had the accuracy and extra attention to detail that a made for TV movie back in the 80's could not.
Are you sure you're not saying Bruno Ganz is better just because Downfall was in German?
@@williamphillips6049 but this guy act not much accurate like bruno ganz
@@williamphillips6049 bruno made hitler more human
@@williamphillips6049 not always angry, he express very good about hitler, the depresstion, face emotion...
That's the way I speak to job centre staff lol
The war will never be lost.
Every time he says lost it always sound like lust to me.
2:31 My dad testing if he has COVID.
“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.” Leonardo da Vinci.
Wow he’s really playing the part with passion isn’t he. Think even Hitler would have clapped his hands
2:31
I watched this many times as a history student for life comparing facts and performance. If Hopkins could speak German this is the best....but downfall leaves you breathless...today's movie recording technology would make the Bunker mind blowing.....the Bunker vs. Downfall is 50/50....two masterpieces...
How come hitlor speeeek English he know or don't know ???? Any one place he never speek eng
His performance was over the top IMHO. He didn’t speak to Speer as depicted at 1:44. Speer and Hitler were friends.
I know Hopkins is very over the top, but I still feel there’s a good performance here. He’s absolutely maniacal!
How do you know that Hitler wasn't equally over the top?
@@smudger671 I don’t, but I suspect you have a point. Nonetheless, it’s very _very_ theatrical, so many people think it’s too far. Bruno Ganz nailed the balance perfectly, _but_ I still like Hopkins. 2:32 and 4:10 are excellent!
I like the part when he said the war is not lost
Mr Hitler needed anger management
Remembering that Downfall parody I can't find anymore. "The only thing you should wipe out is your sh**ty acting!" Lol
Anthony Hopkins is a tremendous actor....... This is not an example of his brilliance
Excellent piece of drama and this portrayal maximises the paranoid and tyrannical outbursts we are told Hitler had many times especially when the pressure became unsustainable for his delusional master plan
A jew would say that, wouldn't you.
@@joebrennan.4389 I am not Jewish ...
It's somehow cheering to see that even as great an actor as Hopkins can occasionally stink up the joint.
Great mannerism of Hopkins.
The ultimate sign of victory: When the victors get to portray you in a movie.
I could've sworn Hitler's mop was facing the other way.
I watched this miniseries when it originally aired. I still think that the portrayal by Hopkins is compelling, but this is clearly stage theatre acting, not the subtle film performance that he gives in The Elephant Man. Looking back on this after several decades, my major complaint is that Hopkins looks too young and healthy in several scenes.
How does one give a "subtle film performance" of Adolph fucking Hitler?
This performance is literally the worst of his career. Gutter trash.
@@DC-zi6se That "worst of his career" performance won Hopkins an Emmy in 1981.
to those commenting this was just a tv movie, not a big hollywood £50 million production like downfall.yes it is a bit of a miscast primarily because of a lack of a german accent.
Downfall isn't a hollywood movie and its budget was 13 million
+Arse Robinson
Downfall wasn't a Hollywood production.
Honestly, it sounds like a slightly more serious version of Stalag 13
His tirade at 30 sec. is incredible.
"I'm only down here to inspect it!"
Movie name is The Bunker
Hopkins went into a Trance being Hitler. No way would he be able to do this again, even if he traveled into time. It's scary.
Lol me when I'm mad
How US actors just suck at acting like germans...
And we know how American Anthony Hopkins is?
Claude Stark Yes we know...
And I love him starring The Silence of the Lambs. But nevertheless he fails at acting an austrian... Its just overacting of glichees. Especially how they speak.
snickepie .DE
Ah yes, the glitches. Well, considering the host of mental and more importantly his physical problems he was was experiencing at the time I would say he was spot on. I don't think anyone has ever said Anthony Hopkins was over acting. You might be the first. I would suggest reading how his physical state was at the time, I am sure Mr. Hopkins did.
Hopkins is Welsh!
lol too bad for your comment that Anthony Hopkins is Welsh
Hopkins actually won the Best Actor Emmy for this thing in 1981. He beat Peter O'Toole and Peter Strauss in Masada, and Toshiro Mifune and Richard Chamberlain in Shogun. Remember those big event mini-series? O'Toole should've won...
So, Downfall came second, and the great Bruno Ganz took some inspiration from A. H., Anthony Hopkins, playing that other A. H.
"How dare you speak to me in that way?" Hitler said calmly...
Sheer brilliance, Tony hopkins channeling hitler perfectly.
This film is called The Bunker came out in the early 1980s. Traudl Junge Will have seen this
There is nobody that can play an unhinged Hitler , but Hitler. The greatest actors in the world can only touch on it. Hopkins could have pulled it off perhaps 15-20 years after this movie was made but his acting had not matured to the Master of his craft at the time of filming.
Old Hoppy plays a good Hitler, however at this time in WWII, Hitler's left hand was trembling badly, his posture was stooped, his head hung
down, his skin was discolored, his eyes rheumy. Hard to get that into a movie, I suppose.
Downfall.
Yes, in the film "The Bunker" (1981), there is a scene where Adolf Hitler, portrayed by Anthony Hopkins, becomes visibly angry. The film focuses on the final days of Hitler's life, as he is holed up in his underground bunker in Berlin. It explores the deteriorating mental and physical state of Hitler as the war nears its end. While I cannot provide a detailed analysis of specific scenes from the film, it is worth noting that the portrayal of Hitler's emotions and behavior in movies is often fictionalized and based on interpretations by the filmmakers.
I didn’t know Hannibal Lecter played Adolf Hitler…. Until I read it in the comments on a war and remembrance video.
1:12 comedown from an adderall binge lmao
Can you believe that it's Anthony Hopkins? He was the British Paratrooper in a bridge too far!
Who did it better? Alec Guiness, Anthony Hopkins, or Bruno Ganz?
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“THE WAR IS NOT LOST!!! THE WAR WILL NEVER BE LOST!” Says the guy who cancelled fighter production of the ME-262. Great acting though.
Was the first guy supposed to be Guderian?
"Don't speak me that way, I'm Hannibal!"
Churchill said he'd fight to the death , Hitler did and he was called mad ,was Churchill mad?
2:31 what the hell is that?
Uh, that was pretty much _exactly_ what they were dealing with!
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"If the war is lost the peopleOFGERMANYEAAAAAACVRGHGGRGRGRG!"
LOL. THAT's Completely Hilarious.
Idk about you but his body language is just too good to be true... it's like, as if he was born to play adolf hitler.
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Not a patch on Bruno Ganz. Anthony Hopkins is brilliant in his own right, but in this particular role Bruno Ganz set a standard that made all earlier attempts to interpret this character seem like parodies.
Bruno Ganz is the Best Actor to Play Adolf Hitler in DOWNFALL
Quite the contrary, I think these are some of Anthony Hopkins' worst moments. His best moments are in scenes where he is not yelling.
he keeps twitching..
There's something of Pacino in Hopkin's interpretation of AH...
Anthony Hopkins had the look and voice
They should play this shit in fast reverse with the benny hill theme
Bruno Ganz was better.
Much Speed Not many would agree with that.
@Potato Gaming Well, put it this way. Hopkins won an Emmy for The Bunker. Bruno won fuck all for Der Untergang. So clearly a few agree.
@@tacobell6826 It might have been an award winning performance but that doesn't mean it's an accurate depiction. Ganz was vastly better and more accurate. Downfall was a superior movie in every respect but being foreign made got little notice in US.
@@tacobell6826 Actually... Donwfall(or Der Untergang) DID WON the Academy Oscar for best foreign movie.
I don't remember this movie to win any Oscars, though.
@@Antimanele104 I think Bruno was good, but I honestly think Hopkins was a better version of Hitler.
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Kid: Mom, I want to watch Der Untergang.
Mom: We have Der Untergang at home.
Der Untergang at home:
Might not be the best Hitler performance, but certainly he gave it more hard work and effort than any other actor that ever played Hitler. Look how hard he’s trying poor guy.