Apt Pupil - 1998 - Open Scene
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- Опубліковано 3 тра 2020
- In Southern California in 1984, 16-year-old high school student Todd Bowden discovers that his elderly neighbor, Arthur Denker, is in reality Kurt Dussander - a former Sturmbannführer in the SS who is now a fugitive war criminal hiding from justice. Todd blackmails Dussander by threatening to turn him in to the police. However, the teenager is fascinated with Nazi atrocities perpetrated during World War II, and forces Dussander to share disturbing stories of what it was like working at Nazi extermination camps, and how it felt to participate in genocide.
Todd purchases an SS uniform from a costume shop, and forces Dussander to wear it. When he spends more time with the old man, his grades suffer, he loses interest in his girlfriend, and he conceals his bad grades from his parents. In turn, the Nazi blackmails the young boy into studying to restore his grades, threatening to expose the boy's subterfuge and his dalliance with Nazism to his parents. Dussander even poses as Todd's grandfather and goes to an appointment with Todd's school counselor Edward French. Talking about the war crimes affects both the old man and the young boy, and an intoxicated Dussander attempts to kill a cat in his gas oven but fails when it attacks him and escapes. Dussander also takes great pride in Todd's unbelievable turnaround, going from near dropout to straight As in a matter of weeks.
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Rest in peace Brad Renfro; it is such a shame that he died so young ( along with Jonathan Brandis and a few others).
This film was chilling
Hollywood needs to bring back opening credits.
For me the most chilling scene in the film is Dussander's first hand spoken account of how victims died from cyanide gas (a by product of Zycklon B and oxygen). How victims screamed panicked clawing at each other in pitch darkness trying to get to air near the ceiling , where there was none. How children got trampled in panic and were first to succumb. How their bowels were released as they were dying. Then the aftermath. When sonderkommando slave workers had to go into the chamber to deentangle bodies, piled into a pyramidal shape of limbs, torso, crushed skulls, and eyeballs that popped out of victims as they were crushed. All covered in feces, urine, blood, and air still stinking of cyanide gas residue. Juxtapose that with popular entertainment depiction of gas chamber used for capital punishment in USA, where the condemned cough , shake a little, then go still. Germany should have been ended in 1945. IMHO, Germany forfeited its right to exist. That scene of Dussander explaining, had n0 intercuts of visuals, no historical footage overlayed. It was entirely oral and viewer has to form the images in mind's eye. Watching this monologue delivered by Ian McKellan is just so convincing.
BRAD IS REMARKABLE
From the director of "X-Men".
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This was a novella which was part of Different Seasons by liberal writer Stephen King ( no offense, I just don't agree with his narrow minded political views).
Why do you find it SO damn important to point out his political stance?
This scene always pops my wood
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I didn't write that