Die Welle, The Wave [Region All, NTSC]

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Mit Jürgen Vogel in der Süddeutschen Zeitung, 19. Februar 2008: Wer wären Sie unter Hitler gewesen, Herr Vogel? Kirti, Kamna (June 23, 2021). "This Classroom Experiment Explains How Hitler Rose to Power & No One Protested". The Collector . Retrieved May 17, 2022.

a b c d Dennis Gansel im Gespräch mit den Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 10. März 2008, S. 12: „Widerstandsbiografien entstehen aus Zufällen“ Loners Are Freaks: Subverted. Tim's behavior through the film, becoming a model member of the Wave and committing suicide when the movement is shut down, is caused by him being desperate to not be alone any more. Adaptation Expansion: With an extra hour of runtime over its predecessor, the 2008 version has more characters and adds more subplots demonstrating the effects of the Wave, such as the sequence in which the Wave members use graffiti to spread their symbol around town. Die Welle demands that we re-evaluate our apparent ‘enlightenment’ and prevent history from repeating itself. Fascism was never confined to the dictatorships of the 20 th century. It is no longer impossible for teenagers to imagine a modern world like that of the 1940s. All they need to do is step outside. The film starts with high school teacher Rainer Wenger taking a class on autocracy. Like Ron Jones he devises an experiment to demonstrate how easily people could be manipulated into supporting a dictatorship. He starts by imposing stricter discipline and goes on to create a group which the class decide to call Die Welle (The Wave). Nearly all the students join it, and eagerly go along with Wenger's idea that they should all wear a uniform of white shirt and jeans as a symbol of identification with the group. They also create a distinctive salute and a "wave" logo which they begin spray painting around town. They hold parties to which only Wave members are invited and ostracise those few students who refuse to join.I thought "The Wave" was going to be corny. I thought it was going to be about a group of simple-minded kids following a leader because of some bromides. It wasn't that at all.

Although the experiment was not well documented at the time, it was briefly mentioned in two issues of the Cubberley High School student newspaper, The Cubberley Catamount. [10] [6] Another issue of the paper has a longer account of the experiment at its conclusion. [1] Jones wrote a detailed recollection of the experiment some nine years afterward. [9] Subsequent articles by other authors followed, some featuring interviews with Jones and the students involved. [2] Chronology [ edit ] First day [ edit ] The basic story is that of a school teacher (an anarchist at heart) who has to teach a class about "Autocracy". Failing to get their attention, he decides to create an experiment whereby they are to create their own mini autocracy and rules amongst themselves (named "The Wave"). With such a controversial subject, the whole thing gets out of hand with the pupils succumbing to the autocratic fascist methodology with grave consequences. The implementation, however, is less good. Characters are badly formed, and are often extreme. The teacher is a one-dimensional hippy, trying to be cool and getting his students to like him. Some of the kids are too ridiculous to be real, eg the kid who is always making silly jokes and pranks without any repercussions. Hypocrite: Karo; she only turns against The Wave when she chooses to not wear the uniform (white shirt) everyone in the Wave agreed on wearing, because of a comment from her mother, and thus starts see how the Wave treats non-members. It's likely she would not have turned against them if she had worn the uniform. Where you lied about your age to get on and frequently rearranged your "top friends" lists accordingly. 14. Abercrombie models

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Dennis Gansel im Gespräch mit Der Standard, 11. Februar 2008, S. 28: Faschismus ist für alle anziehend Ducey, Patricia. "Experiment in Fascism at an American High School: The Lesson Plan @ The Newport Beach Film Festival". Libertas Film Magazine . Retrieved May 12, 2011. Es war ursprünglich nicht vorgesehen, die Rolle von Wengers Frau mit Christiane Paul zu besetzen, die beim Dreh – wie im Film kurz zu Beginn zu sehen – im siebten Monat schwanger war. [17] Ron Jones ist kurz als Gast im Restaurant zu sehen, als die Jugendlichen das Logo ans Gebäude sprühen. Eine kleine Nebenrolle übernahm der Regisseur, einmal auf der ersten Party und einmal im Hausflur vor Marcos Wohnung. Gansel und Jennifer Ulrich, Darstellerin der Karo, wurden bei den Dreharbeiten zum Paar. [18] Wesen des Films [ Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten ] Gansels Konzept [ Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten ]

Jones, Ron (1972). "The Third Wave". Archived from the original on 24 February 2005 . Retrieved 3 December 2016. , and Jones, Ron (1976). "The Third Wave". The Wave Home. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015 . Retrieved 3 December 2016. In 1967, Ron Jones, a teacher at a high school in Palo Alto, California, devised a "social experiment" among his students which he called "The Third Wave"; the idea was to show how easily support for a quasi-fascist ideology could spread. This experiment inspired the book "The Wave" by Morton Rhue, and this in turn served as the basis for this film, which transfers the action from America in the 1960s to modern Germany. In the end, you are at times really tempted to believe that the movie left the book behind (it did after all), and that Wenger (the teacher) might have gone over to really become the fascist leader he depicted before (he didn't) END SPOILER Schließlich ist zu sehen, wie er im Polizeiwagen sitzt und ungläubig erkennt, welches Ausmaß sein Experiment angenommen hat. This translates into exclusion, vandalism and extremism. Those who become aware of the brainwashing are barred from entering the school. Resistance flyers (perhaps another head-nod to the White Rose resistance group in the 1940s) are destroyed. Even the school’s headteacher turns a blind eye to the group’s radicalisation, praising Rainer for his ‘successful’ teaching style.The third wave, 1967: an account - Ron Jones | libcom.org». libcom.org (στα Αγγλικά) . Ανακτήθηκε στις 5 Ιουνίου 2023. Gansel explained that he did not intend to reenact Jones’ experiment, but rather show how it would be carried out in present-day Germany. He said the movie is not an adaption and that he changed characters, dialogues as well as the beginning and ending of the movie. [9] This also includes subsidiary aspects such as the football team which was turned into a water polo team in the German version whose coach, as opposed to the original, is the teacher himself. The major difference, however, concerns the physical violence and the bloody end which became part of the movie. Nonetheless, Gansel claimed in an interview that it was extremely important to him to ensure that his movie would not differ as much from the experiment as Strasser's book. Thereby he described Jones, who supported the film project as a counselor, as a "living certificate" of authenticity and that the ending was inspired by the Emsdetten school shooting. [11] He claimed that Jones does not like the way the characters in Strasser's novel are depicted. [12] The former teacher commented that Gansel's movie gave an "incredibly convincing" account of the actual experiment. [6] The screenplay is based on an article written by Ron Jones in which he talks about the experiment and how he remembers it. The rights to the story which belonged to Sony were given over to Dennis Gansel for the production of a German movie. [9] As a consequence, Todd Strasser, whose novel popularized the material in Germany, and the publisher Ravensburg, did not receive direct revenues from the film project. [10] Gansel was working on the book for one year until he asked Peter Thorwarth to join him as a co-author. The screenplay moves the experiment, which was carried out in California in the 1960s, to present day Germany. The specific location is never mentioned explicitly as it stands for Germany as a whole. The 2008 German film Die Welle transferred the experiment to a modern-day German classroom. The film received critical acclaim.

So, the narrative of the past does not work anymore. Gansel’s exploration of an extreme political experiment, paired with a surge of far-right support across Europe and beyond, refutes our misguided belief that we are living in an ‘enlightened’ society. The scars that this period of history has left behind call for speculation and interrogation from a supposedly ‘modern’ and ‘enlightened’ society. We are constantly made to wrestle with the same questions: is it possible that history will repeat itself? Will we see a new surge in right-wing populism, or has this already been established? Is it possible that our ‘enlightened’ society will make the same mistakes, opening itself up to the manipulation of a menacing dictator?Catsoulis,Jeannette(2011-05-26). «The Siren Song of Groupthink»(στα αγγλικά). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/movies/the-wave-review.html .Ανακτήθηκε στις 2023-06-05. What is frightening is that many (though not all) of them voluntarily follow the conformity through reasoning. Ironically, the mob mentality engulfing the students is what they condemn formerly; even the "anarchist" Rainer finds himself intoxicated with his increasingly idolised status. The Pride of Lakewood", a 2010 episode of children's animated series Arthur, was loosely based on the Third Wave experiment. In it, students who form a community pride group become fascistic. Annoying Younger Sibling: Karo's brother Leon is very rude due to the hands-off parenting style of their parents. He later joins the Wave and uses it's trappings to bully other children. One important point that needs to be added is that its a German movie, and for historical reasons the topic is a delicate one, yet seems to add to the whole feel. The film is quite realistically disturbing in many ways, and shows how most of the pupils slowly fall for fascism in quite innocent ways. It will make you think and possibly reassess the important question, as asked in the film, if Autocracy can rear its head again.