Makes me wonder wheere those kids from the real class that this was based on are now. They would be in their late 50's-early 60's wouldn't they? I wonder what they think of our current government? might be a good time for a follow up.
United States has brainwashed everyone within the country to believe a capitalistic-democratic system is good and socialism is bad...Lol The leaders and defenders of democracy soon forget they killed more Afrikaans 3 times over than the Jew during the Trans Atlantic slave trade! And this is not counting the American Indian holocausts and the Chinese Americans who built the rail systems.
Everyone posting here is antiwave. I am a Wave member, and believe that discipline, community, and action can create positive change. So if anyone wants to post a POSITIVE comment, go right on ahead. I'm creating a bright future for myself. A Wave future.
@Primrose7475Lives The Wave had no theology. You can only try to live by those ideas, but The Wave itself was only a High School experiment that you seem to have failed to comprehend.
Yes, it was a real thing made up by a teacher. only went four or five days, and already the results were interesting: better grades and enthusiasm yes, actual volunteering for jobs yes, but also exclusivity and rulebreaking and related fanatic following, of a sort. See the Stanford prison experiment for a parallel. This case was a psychology test, and just goes to show that fascist-style groups are a significant possibility in any age.
This is very good but the german one is better :) we saw part of it in class today and I just had to watch the rest. The fact that this actually happened scares me.
Unfortunately all of this is going on in the U.S. right now you have your TSA you have have police who will not follow law but in fact are hired by private institutions.The actual story was wild it was a 5 day experiment and it changed the lives of all those who were part of it including the Teacher Ron Jones.
I watched this as a freshman in high school, and thought it was utterly absurd. Part of what made Nazism so galvanizing was the racial and populist ideology underlying it. The experiment in this film is just a made up club with no ideology, purpose, or point. High school students have a hierarchy of their own, and wouldn't consider a club where Robert was the most enthusiastic member to be something cool. If my history teacher tried to pull a stunt like this, we'd have laughed at him.
@SwineForkbeard Then unlike them who have no idea what was going on, you on the other hand know what it happening. Keep your thought process for it is one that nows how Fascism can spread so fast, in any form of the way. Despite that there was no need persecute certain groups. Nazism is what it is because people follow blindly to fascism, hurting others and what makes it so feared. The reason your teachers doesn't do this experiment is because you get it, and your not a bunch of brainless idiots
This was reeeeally boring .-. i only watched it for two reasons....
1. it was the original version
2. I read the book, which had a lot more details, and i read it cause im having a test on it, there for my school forced me to read it. I like the book better
@Toophless1 If you were really there, Toophless, can you shed some light on the real events of "The Wave" experiment, and how widespread it actually got verus what we see here in the semi-dramatic version? Can you give any proof whatsoever that you really were a senior that year at all?
@kyrre I had to watch this film last year in English. Many kids in my class thought it was stupid. They would most likely fall into a cult if ever given the chance.
only americans can produce such pathetic crap....and believe it or not, this film was shown in schools all over the countries after it came out...unbelievable
does anyone know if the third wave experiment was influenced by the stanford prison experiment or vice versa because they were both created in palo alton in the late sixties.
I see him in a different way. He s a victim of society in school. No friends, no tolerance, no respect. He is not getting the emotions of other he needs to be happy, like love or friendship. He has no purpose to live. With the Wave, he found a group he may belong to. He feels accepted and he experience the respect of the others. He failed as individual and succeded as victor. Fascist groups are full of people, who fail in life and find a purpose again in the group. greetings
@GodIsBass Yeah I disagree. It is, in fact, his mistreatment by others that made him susceptible to the solace the Wave claimed to offer. He bought it wholesale. A whole lot of groups would have a harder time finding members, and there would probably be less massive school shootings and the like, if people just stopped being assholes to people they think are strange or uncool or don't like.
Ironic that even Wikipedia admits the experiment was never properly written up, and the best reference is a book which is described as a novel based on the experiment.
Learning psychological principles from a fiction author based on undocumented research they claim to have been incredibly effective? I wonder where I've heard that before ;)
@adamtheamazing64 im guessing it was made for schools to educate the students about it. they didn't want to make the movie too long so that the students wouldn't miss as much classtime. its just a guess though.
After all, what is society itself but this principle, writ large, used in defense of the social contract?
That's the danger here. If you could just shut this stuff off and ignore it, that'd be fine, but you have to judge it case by case and sometimes you even need to be listening. Just, as the teacher dude said, never listen to the exclusion of your own necessary individual freedoms.
Nor should be be entirely quick to dismiss every group that uses similar tactics as a dangerous cult, because that's narrow-minded thinking too. Example: Religion, in its proper sphere. Also the military. Both have their place and need to use such tactics to motivate people to become better people, or defend their country.
(c'd) we don't like having to make some of the decisions and do some of the things we deal with daily as adults. If some charlatan can show us those unpleasant things in a vacuum and tell us they can get rid of them for us, that's a powerful attractive force. Powerful and deadly. Hitler didn't invent that. Nor did the Fascist movement. It's been around since the dawn of man.
As one Soviet song said, "We will sing and laugh as children amid stubborn struggle and work."
It's not adult struggle and work that's avoided, but adult taking of responsibility.
B.R. Myers in "The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters" describes how North Lorean government propaganda describes its people as a pure, childlike race, virtually incapable of sin.
Yet another aspect is at least opposition, if not hatred towards the outside world and presumption of themselves as somehow awakened, while the rest of the people are asleep. "You must wake up" is a very common refrain.
Under "Cults: The Wave - Part 1", Amputate wrote how his sociology teacher got about 80% of our class to believe they were going to protest against our school about something. Paradoxically, protest and rebellion involve slavish "follow the leader" behavior. The ones who think themselves as rebels are as a rule the biggest slaves of all.
I think this is why our commercial culture is packed to the brim with propaganda of rebellion.
And also why the academia, overwhelmingly, almost totally leftist, completely in control of campuses, still promotes an impression of itself as somehow being rebels against "the system." One can go to any campus today and easily find classes with the same cult-like propaganda of leftist doctrines.
I've seen this movie before, and I also read "No substitute for madness," by Ron Jones, the teacher who came up with the Wave experiment.
The first chapter of the book is about The Wave. But what really shocked me is that in one of the later chapters, Ron Jones himself joins a wave. A leftist wave.
This is the real power of The Wave: its author joined it at the end. The Wave turned out to be stronger than him.
@Kurtlane the lesson here is 4 dem 2 relaize how ppl use 2 follow da crowd just like da nazi use 2 do dey followed da crowd && did wat eva 1 else was doing bcuz dey was scared of wat will happen to dem if dey didnt do wat every 1 else was doing
@Labouricagirl, true, but that's only part of the lesson, isn't it.
What looks like a homogenous crowd from the outside had its internal dynamics. It included fervent believers, tag-alongs, doubters, and even outright dissidents.
The other part is following an ideology.
And following young people just because they are young.
@Kurtlane Not just young people. Most of the leadership of the Nazi party were World War 1 veterans. It's part of the dual nature of humanity to on the one hand yearn for freedom, and on the other to yearn for... I don't want to say "safety" or "security" because that's not the real answer. More like for someone else to take the pressure of daily life off our shoulders and let us be kids again in some way.
Holy shit! He actually made an entire school to follow him. Good thing it was only an experiment, imagine what could've happened if he was actually serious about this.
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@carmencapel69 Whats really great...is I don't think even they knew, they just wanted to be a group united without outside influences, a PERFECT Gang-Mentallity experiment
@carmencapel69 I kind of thought their aim was to get students to act like they were acting in class (perfect posture, answering questions all promptly, etc) without realize they were also beginning to lose free thought. Omegauser's answer seems right too, they weren't really DOING anything except recruiting more people to do the same, ironically enough
I feel that this movie was very movie fuck all the haters what if that was u .. I watched this movie and read the book in my grade 12 English class this year :)
It's a rather short film, but one that I think all schools across the world should show to prevent anything like that from happening again. The fact is that we are not imune to it as much as we would like to think we are.
Anyone have a classroom where everyone must do the work in your small team all year, or there are consequences (automatic failure of a certain project when late). Trust me, it makes EVERYONE work, and that's how we succeed.
@Dratini999 Ganz klar! Hitler was amazing at speaches, and knew how to get people fired up (no pun intended).. And I'll have to agree that this version is better than Das Experiment, which has a lot of flaws in it btw! A teacher at our school actually tried something a bit like this, in a much smaller, and he also experienced how the students would follow the leader.
So this a lesson to us all, of how the Germans during WWII could "just" follow along - Only dead fish follow the stream
This is a great teaching for EVERYONE. Nationalisms in 2010 are rising. Nazis groups are reapearing in germany.... the fear of foreigners also Think about those facts...
for god sake we are all the same, whoever we are, whatever we believe, and from wherever we come from
Travels should be compulsory, let's meet our neighbors from the whole world!
@norhanoi Think about why they are rising.our elected politician are letting anyone trough the gates as long as they carry a bomb or swear they don't wanna fit in.
The point is.there are more people hating us now than it was than.and we have become so passiv that if we need to protest against something we use facebook
I find it interesting that those parents are against this type of thing... but what about being patriotic and loving this nation to the max? Is it that much different? People are also like this toward education... didn't matter, those bitches at ma old High School couldn't change me.
I always get this movie confused with a similar movie on discrimination. An experiment in which a teacher has the students wear red, green and blue arm bands in which blue is the highest class and red the lowest class. I always confuse that one with the wave. Anyone knows what the title of that other movie was?
I saw this in middle school (or the danish version of middle school) and I haven't seen it since... But the plot has stuck with me and to this day (I'm now 22) I still remember the lesson, they were all taught... Great movie, (even though it's kind of old) with a great messages... Thanks for posting... :)
Excellent movie, 18:59 we all need to apply this to ourselves instead of just to other people.
Kenjuu 1 week ago
it takes some real idiots to fall for crap like this
thenexushater101 1 week ago
the book was soooo much better
-Meow
Simbaloca721 1 week ago
Trash.
TrueConservative2012 2 weeks ago
lol the way she fell, had me laughing my ass off, like she just hit the ground and stayed there
96marcelwilson 2 weeks ago
lmao
sohello123 2 weeks ago
i feel bad for Robert
ThePresD 3 weeks ago
Makes me wonder wheere those kids from the real class that this was based on are now. They would be in their late 50's-early 60's wouldn't they? I wonder what they think of our current government? might be a good time for a follow up.
CEMF100 3 weeks ago
It was a verry good answer for her question
And i feed sorry for that guy who was the teachers boddyguard
11thekiller 1 month ago
Ok that is so cool
11thekiller 1 month ago
People aren't stupid just like that, groups with leaders with wrong intentions make them stupid.
Beltran208 1 month ago
United States has brainwashed everyone within the country to believe a capitalistic-democratic system is good and socialism is bad...Lol The leaders and defenders of democracy soon forget they killed more Afrikaans 3 times over than the Jew during the Trans Atlantic slave trade! And this is not counting the American Indian holocausts and the Chinese Americans who built the rail systems.
Amocee 2 months ago 4
@Amocee Socialism is a joke.
MrGreenPoop1000 1 month ago
ok this is scary
stuffofdream 2 months ago
There is nothing wrong with having National or racial pride...this is VERY natural.
Amocee 2 months ago
@Amocee this is dictarship 101 yes I know its misspelled
stuffofdream 2 months ago
This is Progressivism 101. Anti-individualism, anti-economic freedom, and a high centralized power.
THERepublic1971 2 months ago
i hate that white sweater
philosophergenius 2 months ago
Im watching this in my geogrraphy class
XLcurley 2 months ago
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XLcurley 2 months ago
very ingenious way to answer her question
YmustTh3w0rldG0r0und 2 months ago
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YmustTh3w0rldG0r0und 2 months ago
My history teacher told me about this film yestedray ^^
mennyC64 2 months ago
Old school movie
flamingflame7 2 months ago
Yo moma sucks my dick.
ChinatownWieners 2 months ago
ACTING!!!!!!
bauzer07 2 months ago
how'd that real experience work out?
Epicthunder135 2 months ago
Nice bell-bottoms, Robert.
GallopingDarns 2 months ago
Wow
SceletusIgnis 2 months ago
Everyone posting here is antiwave. I am a Wave member, and believe that discipline, community, and action can create positive change. So if anyone wants to post a POSITIVE comment, go right on ahead. I'm creating a bright future for myself. A Wave future.
Primrose7475Lives 3 months ago
@Primrose7475Lives The Wave had no theology. You can only try to live by those ideas, but The Wave itself was only a High School experiment that you seem to have failed to comprehend.
Quentin242451 3 months ago
book is so much better
MaximumRidePriestess 3 months ago
It is happening now with O's cult following, and his editing of history.
aspacia1 3 months ago
The next day Robert walked halls with a sawed off shotgun screaming "strength through action"
FiIIerguy 3 months ago
The message is incredible but the acting is terrible
ImmaLazerFish 3 months ago
To all those doubters:
Yes, it was a real thing made up by a teacher. only went four or five days, and already the results were interesting: better grades and enthusiasm yes, actual volunteering for jobs yes, but also exclusivity and rulebreaking and related fanatic following, of a sort. See the Stanford prison experiment for a parallel. This case was a psychology test, and just goes to show that fascist-style groups are a significant possibility in any age.
cheesecakedelicious 3 months ago
im in 8th grade & i dont feel like reading it so i just watched it instead!
coliec98 4 months ago
This is very good but the german one is better :) we saw part of it in class today and I just had to watch the rest. The fact that this actually happened scares me.
HushIAmTalking 4 months ago
That cheesy ominous music still does the job today
hippolarious 4 months ago
5:30 she was going to be raped
hippolarious 4 months ago
Unfortunately all of this is going on in the U.S. right now you have your TSA you have have police who will not follow law but in fact are hired by private institutions.The actual story was wild it was a 5 day experiment and it changed the lives of all those who were part of it including the Teacher Ron Jones.
darwinswrong 4 months ago
My class is reading the book.
acdeditch99 5 months ago
this really does prove how fast something so small can gain such momentium. Their wave turns into a full out tsnami.
energizer128 5 months ago
This is so surreal....
HerrWarja 5 months ago
I watched this as a freshman in high school, and thought it was utterly absurd. Part of what made Nazism so galvanizing was the racial and populist ideology underlying it. The experiment in this film is just a made up club with no ideology, purpose, or point. High school students have a hierarchy of their own, and wouldn't consider a club where Robert was the most enthusiastic member to be something cool. If my history teacher tried to pull a stunt like this, we'd have laughed at him.
SwineForkbeard 5 months ago
@SwineForkbeard Then unlike them who have no idea what was going on, you on the other hand know what it happening. Keep your thought process for it is one that nows how Fascism can spread so fast, in any form of the way. Despite that there was no need persecute certain groups. Nazism is what it is because people follow blindly to fascism, hurting others and what makes it so feared. The reason your teachers doesn't do this experiment is because you get it, and your not a bunch of brainless idiots
Carrdude101 4 months ago
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@SwineForkbeard Well it is based on facts.
leiefilm 3 months ago
how old are these peeps meant to be? 16yrs old? 21 yr old?
fardaypu 5 months ago
well, this explains how when, im watching HOUSE, and he says people are idiots, everyone around me smiles and says "yea people are idiots".
people are stupid. and if you are reading this and agreeing with me.
i mean you dip shit.
MrAudacia 6 months ago 7
There's a good way to explain nationalism!
f081088 6 months ago
I am doing an assessment on this, but i dont understand how this relates to discrimination?
abbbybruhh 6 months ago
This was reeeeally boring .-. i only watched it for two reasons....
1. it was the original version
2. I read the book, which had a lot more details, and i read it cause im having a test on it, there for my school forced me to read it. I like the book better
WhatDidYuseii 6 months ago 2
obama youth corps, lol
TinySoldier33 7 months ago
that's a huge hit at 7:26
frankmyfriendTF2 7 months ago
Danka mine furer
niliaangel 7 months ago
super old school! I remember watching this in middle school and it made a huge impact on me. thanks for posting!
abyucougar 8 months ago
I was there. I was a senior that year. "Togotfury" you have no idea what you are talking about. Instead of speculating...do some homework
Toophless1 8 months ago
@Toophless1 If you were really there, Toophless, can you shed some light on the real events of "The Wave" experiment, and how widespread it actually got verus what we see here in the semi-dramatic version? Can you give any proof whatsoever that you really were a senior that year at all?
Nowhereman10 8 months ago
i wonder how many people killed themselves out of shame. i know many of the students suffered long term trauma from it. nice going teach
togotfury 8 months ago
i saw this in religie class, well the beginning and ending at least xP
MissCookieMonster02 8 months ago
I just finished readin the book, freaky what discipline can do...
tbloodawesome 8 months ago
We didn't get to the second part in class in world history so i watched it now.
afshinv1 8 months ago
saw this in class today, it blew my mind
lithuanian27 9 months ago
@lithuanian27 I SAW IT IN AP PSYCHOLOGY
WPUSMA1 9 months ago
@WPUSMA1 I saw it in my class about the holocaust and world war 2
lithuanian27 9 months ago
i'm from norway, and we saw this film in a high school class. it was mandatory. this was back in 1993, im sure they still show it to kids. haha.
kyrre 9 months ago 19
@kyrre they do actually, we saw it in class today
lianneee123 8 months ago
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@kyrre they do actually, we saw it in class today
lianneee123 8 months ago
@kyrre Yes they do. And it's good they do.
DonQuixotec 3 months ago
@kyrre yeah we watched the first part of it and im watching the second at home its very interesting
8607flowerphone 3 months ago
@kyrre AWWW BUT STILL NOBODY CARES NOW FUCK THIS FUCKINS SHIT!!!
Angel099833 3 months ago
@kyrre Have a test on it tomorrow, say me good luck !
MrPastor47 3 months ago
@kyrre They do, I saw it today in my grade 10 History class.
RetardedChickenVids 3 months ago
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@kyrre we watched it yesterday
prankisteen 3 months ago
@kyrre I had to watch this film last year in English. Many kids in my class thought it was stupid. They would most likely fall into a cult if ever given the chance.
DrShakespeareSeuss 1 month ago
only americans can produce such pathetic crap....and believe it or not, this film was shown in schools all over the countries after it came out...unbelievable
MoveOverCasanova 10 months ago
does anyone know if the third wave experiment was influenced by the stanford prison experiment or vice versa because they were both created in palo alton in the late sixties.
swastikausa 10 months ago
It's crazy how easily people are pursuaded.
skychickyjeni 10 months ago
@skychickyjeni it is only a film you know
MoveOverCasanova 10 months ago
thanks for uploading this great educational movie
ChabadCult 10 months ago
this sucks but i have to watch it because of my fuckin' class is having about WW2 and shit
PortmanPro 10 months ago
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thumbs up if you are watching this because of school
TheTanzipanzi 11 months ago
This seriously sucks
sportsbabexox 11 months ago
communist teacher?
RyansAnimeAndManga 11 months ago
@RyansAnimeAndManga Communist? No, he was teaching the students of Facism and how effective it can be.
shadowofRE 11 months ago
Just goes to show, that kid Robert deserved being an outcast, he would've made a great SS.
GodIsBass 11 months ago
@GodIsBass
I see him in a different way. He s a victim of society in school. No friends, no tolerance, no respect. He is not getting the emotions of other he needs to be happy, like love or friendship. He has no purpose to live. With the Wave, he found a group he may belong to. He feels accepted and he experience the respect of the others. He failed as individual and succeded as victor. Fascist groups are full of people, who fail in life and find a purpose again in the group. greetings
mumugamer2006 10 months ago 9
@GodIsBass Yeah I disagree. It is, in fact, his mistreatment by others that made him susceptible to the solace the Wave claimed to offer. He bought it wholesale. A whole lot of groups would have a harder time finding members, and there would probably be less massive school shootings and the like, if people just stopped being assholes to people they think are strange or uncool or don't like.
boyakasha777 10 months ago
This may have gone way too far, but Mr. Ross was extremely smart to shock the students not to be a fascist
MrLaxdude89 11 months ago
Ironic that even Wikipedia admits the experiment was never properly written up, and the best reference is a book which is described as a novel based on the experiment.
Learning psychological principles from a fiction author based on undocumented research they claim to have been incredibly effective? I wonder where I've heard that before ;)
hyphz 11 months ago
@Levon095 i agree
djjbtb 11 months ago
the book is MUCH better.
WebkinzElitePenguin 11 months ago
i really prefer the german one..
vidscroungerxD 11 months ago
@Yamata05 Of course it is, it's made 18 years later, it better be.
KingNetherdrake 1 year ago
Wow, the book had so much more detail than this asswipe. So sad.
adamtheamazing64 1 year ago
@adamtheamazing64 BAD I KNOW
newzerz 1 year ago
@adamtheamazing64 im guessing it was made for schools to educate the students about it. they didn't want to make the movie too long so that the students wouldn't miss as much classtime. its just a guess though.
ConverseFan7000 10 months ago
@ConverseFan7000 You´r absolutley right with your guessing.
Berlinbaer1 7 months ago
@adamtheamazing64 The movie was made to show it in classrooms, so just 45 minutes. How could they have put more details in 45 minutes long movie?
Berlinbaer1 7 months ago
After all, what is society itself but this principle, writ large, used in defense of the social contract?
That's the danger here. If you could just shut this stuff off and ignore it, that'd be fine, but you have to judge it case by case and sometimes you even need to be listening. Just, as the teacher dude said, never listen to the exclusion of your own necessary individual freedoms.
imgrandojji 1 year ago
Nor should be be entirely quick to dismiss every group that uses similar tactics as a dangerous cult, because that's narrow-minded thinking too. Example: Religion, in its proper sphere. Also the military. Both have their place and need to use such tactics to motivate people to become better people, or defend their country.
It kinda comes down to what the objective is.
imgrandojji 1 year ago
@imgrandojji
Oh yes, reason is so dogmatic. SMH.
ZiggyStardust2329 11 months ago
(c'd) we don't like having to make some of the decisions and do some of the things we deal with daily as adults. If some charlatan can show us those unpleasant things in a vacuum and tell us they can get rid of them for us, that's a powerful attractive force. Powerful and deadly. Hitler didn't invent that. Nor did the Fascist movement. It's been around since the dawn of man.
imgrandojji 1 year ago
@imgrandojji, yes, that's another aspect of it.
As one Soviet song said, "We will sing and laugh as children amid stubborn struggle and work."
It's not adult struggle and work that's avoided, but adult taking of responsibility.
B.R. Myers in "The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters" describes how North Lorean government propaganda describes its people as a pure, childlike race, virtually incapable of sin.
(cont.)
Kurtlane 1 year ago
Yet another aspect is at least opposition, if not hatred towards the outside world and presumption of themselves as somehow awakened, while the rest of the people are asleep. "You must wake up" is a very common refrain.
(cont.)
Kurtlane 1 year ago
Under "Cults: The Wave - Part 1", Amputate wrote how his sociology teacher got about 80% of our class to believe they were going to protest against our school about something. Paradoxically, protest and rebellion involve slavish "follow the leader" behavior. The ones who think themselves as rebels are as a rule the biggest slaves of all.
I think this is why our commercial culture is packed to the brim with propaganda of rebellion.
(cont.)
Kurtlane 1 year ago
And also why the academia, overwhelmingly, almost totally leftist, completely in control of campuses, still promotes an impression of itself as somehow being rebels against "the system." One can go to any campus today and easily find classes with the same cult-like propaganda of leftist doctrines.
Kurtlane 1 year ago
I've seen this movie before, and I also read "No substitute for madness," by Ron Jones, the teacher who came up with the Wave experiment.
The first chapter of the book is about The Wave. But what really shocked me is that in one of the later chapters, Ron Jones himself joins a wave. A leftist wave.
This is the real power of The Wave: its author joined it at the end. The Wave turned out to be stronger than him.
So what is the real lesson here?
Kurtlane 1 year ago
@Kurtlane the lesson here is 4 dem 2 relaize how ppl use 2 follow da crowd just like da nazi use 2 do dey followed da crowd && did wat eva 1 else was doing bcuz dey was scared of wat will happen to dem if dey didnt do wat every 1 else was doing
Labouricagirl 1 year ago
@Labouricagirl, true, but that's only part of the lesson, isn't it.
What looks like a homogenous crowd from the outside had its internal dynamics. It included fervent believers, tag-alongs, doubters, and even outright dissidents.
The other part is following an ideology.
And following young people just because they are young.
And following evil when one sees it winning.
(cont.)
Kurtlane 1 year ago
And opposing for the sake of opposing.
And there is something particularly in young peole that makes them behave that way. Isn't there?
When Ron Jones himself joined the leftist wave, he thought he was joining "the future." This is what he wrote, if I rememeber correctly.
Kurtlane 1 year ago
@Kurtlane Not just young people. Most of the leadership of the Nazi party were World War 1 veterans. It's part of the dual nature of humanity to on the one hand yearn for freedom, and on the other to yearn for... I don't want to say "safety" or "security" because that's not the real answer. More like for someone else to take the pressure of daily life off our shoulders and let us be kids again in some way.
imgrandojji 1 year ago
@Kurtlane I am a Wave member myself, and I believe that The Wave was a brilliant movement that was flawed by human nature.
Primrose7475Lives 3 months ago
@Primrose7475Lives, sorry, but brilliant movements that are flawed by human nature are not brilliant movements.
I lived in the Soviet Union. I know the consequences of such movements all too well.
Better give me a somewhat less brilliant movement that takes human nature into account and works with it.
Kurtlane 3 months ago
says it was in 1967
those kids should have been dropping avid and tie dyeing shit not being jew hateing fuucks
wazerzeke 1 year ago
says it was in 1967
those kids should been dropping avid and tie dyeing shit not being jew hateing fuucks
wazerzeke 1 year ago
Thank god I didnt get that wave tatoo
mzeitler08 1 year ago 55
Holy shit! He actually made an entire school to follow him. Good thing it was only an experiment, imagine what could've happened if he was actually serious about this.
dingsebumsify 1 year ago
@dingsebumsify so true omg!
Labouricagirl 1 year ago
i think it's a good movie but there is too much missing
monrose7 1 year ago
det her er da fucking nedern.
André 8.a
DresenHD 1 year ago
@DresenHD Vent nogle år, uddan dig vil og se den igen. Så tror jeg virkelig at du forstår, hvad der sker her. Hvis du ikke gør til den tid. så håber jeg at du vil få nogen til at forklare det for dig.
MarcoByskov 8 months ago
@MarcoByskov forstår den.. tror bare at man var lidt sej fordi at man skrev sådan..
du ved..
er klogere end som sådan.
DresenHD 8 months ago
@DresenHD okay :D
MarcoByskov 8 months ago
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DresenHD 1 year ago
9:16 "You can't even carry on a coversation without worrying about who's listening to you."
Yes, this film was made 30 years ago. Sounds like today.
wrussellyount 1 year ago
didn't she say, "Everyone wear BLUE shirts."... ?
xjen7 1 year ago
17:33
Laughing very hard xD
wowfan009 1 year ago
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Same thing is happing in America today...we ALL are sitting back while the atrocities of the Mid-East conflict rages on.
Amocee 1 year ago 3
@Amocee You made a great comment and some brainwashed individual marked it as spam.
medini2 1 year ago
I knew from the beginning that it would be Hitler.
LoveSenseDimension 1 year ago
i felt like i was watching an horror movie
adariana1991 1 year ago
"ICH KEMPFE!!!"
byakuya946 1 year ago
"There's your leader!"
wftjet 1 year ago
Mr Ross, we can do it.
creepy!
Alvin691 1 year ago
I never got what the group "The Wave" was about. Strength through discipline... for what purpose? what were they for and what were they against?
carmencapel69 1 year ago
@carmencapel69 Whats really great...is I don't think even they knew, they just wanted to be a group united without outside influences, a PERFECT Gang-Mentallity experiment
omegauser9 1 year ago
@carmencapel69 It didn't matter. Think Hope and Change.
Alvin691 1 year ago
@carmencapel69 I kind of thought their aim was to get students to act like they were acting in class (perfect posture, answering questions all promptly, etc) without realize they were also beginning to lose free thought. Omegauser's answer seems right too, they weren't really DOING anything except recruiting more people to do the same, ironically enough
LikeSoTotallyRandom 1 year ago
yes, the german version is really much better
Yamata05 1 year ago 33
the german verion is sooo much better ... in the german movie is more dramatic and its newer
XgotanygrapesX 1 year ago
the german verion is sooo much better ...
XgotanygrapesX 1 year ago
this movie is so silly...lol
Docthal010 1 year ago
u saw this movie today in school! i dont really get it though..
anus544 1 year ago
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yvinvin 1 year ago
read the book im in 8th grade and my teacher didnt show it in class cuz she was scared wed be laughing the whole time XD
yvinvin 1 year ago
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kjarrith123 1 year ago
Robert Billings The Class Loser!
amocrule1 1 year ago
Moving*
perrykeribear 1 year ago
I feel that this movie was very movie fuck all the haters what if that was u .. I watched this movie and read the book in my grade 12 English class this year :)
perrykeribear 1 year ago
@perrykeribear we read it in 8th grade failure also this movie sucked ass
doom978 1 year ago
"mister ross may i follow you home?"
uhhh isnt this a serious matter?
CloneComander1138 1 year ago
96666...
IAMJAZZHIMSELF 1 year ago
Red ribbon week at our high school always used to remind me of the swastika armband the natzis would wear.
skylinefootball 1 year ago
It's a rather short film, but one that I think all schools across the world should show to prevent anything like that from happening again. The fact is that we are not imune to it as much as we would like to think we are.
urdrkgoddess 1 year ago
Anyone have a classroom where everyone must do the work in your small team all year, or there are consequences (automatic failure of a certain project when late). Trust me, it makes EVERYONE work, and that's how we succeed.
andr00123 1 year ago
Dieser Film ist wirklich besser als der deutsche. Aber ich muss sagen, Hitler war wirklich ein guter Redner.
This movie really is better than the german one. But Hitler really could hold great speeches..
Dratini999 1 year ago
@Dratini999 Ganz klar! Hitler was amazing at speaches, and knew how to get people fired up (no pun intended).. And I'll have to agree that this version is better than Das Experiment, which has a lot of flaws in it btw! A teacher at our school actually tried something a bit like this, in a much smaller, and he also experienced how the students would follow the leader.
So this a lesson to us all, of how the Germans during WWII could "just" follow along - Only dead fish follow the stream
mart1163 1 year ago
that girl and her boyfriend are both terrible actors. especially laury or whatever her name is
FichDak 1 year ago
@FichDak Stage actors!
urdrkgoddess 1 year ago
This is a great teaching for EVERYONE. Nationalisms in 2010 are rising. Nazis groups are reapearing in germany.... the fear of foreigners also Think about those facts...
for god sake we are all the same, whoever we are, whatever we believe, and from wherever we come from
Travels should be compulsory, let's meet our neighbors from the whole world!
norhanoi 1 year ago
@norhanoi Think about why they are rising.our elected politician are letting anyone trough the gates as long as they carry a bomb or swear they don't wanna fit in.
The point is.there are more people hating us now than it was than.and we have become so passiv that if we need to protest against something we use facebook
leiefilm 1 year ago
I find it interesting that those parents are against this type of thing... but what about being patriotic and loving this nation to the max? Is it that much different? People are also like this toward education... didn't matter, those bitches at ma old High School couldn't change me.
super58173 1 year ago
lol 7:44 they just keep on playing tennis
bloodhownd 1 year ago
thnkss dude :) finished ma summer reading xD lmao
QueSTKidZ 1 year ago
ride that wave.. wave.. wave... wave... wave... wave...wave... ride that wave!
Tacokid195 1 year ago
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I always get this movie confused with a similar movie on discrimination. An experiment in which a teacher has the students wear red, green and blue arm bands in which blue is the highest class and red the lowest class. I always confuse that one with the wave. Anyone knows what the title of that other movie was?
KnownNoMore 1 year ago
Did anyone else start laughing around 20:00 ?
GoudaBeluga 1 year ago
@GoudaBeluga - He's gonna eat your soul...
super58173 1 year ago
I saw this in middle school (or the danish version of middle school) and I haven't seen it since... But the plot has stuck with me and to this day (I'm now 22) I still remember the lesson, they were all taught... Great movie, (even though it's kind of old) with a great messages... Thanks for posting... :)
Bonnesig 1 year ago
i feel sorry for robert. i prefer the german version though :)
sol200997 1 year ago
@shiteater135 How? With no American patriotism, the Nazis would have swept over all of Europe, and then the world.
defensor88 1 year ago