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  • oh lighten up lol. go lars!

  • Idiot

  • Fat fucking mental case. And his movies are total shite.

  • idiot

  • Kirsten Dunst puts this act on here in this press conference. What an idiot! Nice acting bitch.

    

  • He looks like a Jew to me though.

  • Von Trier on Hitler 'I think he did some wrong things' unquote. No kidding.

  • haha, poor von trier's fanboys...

  • does nazism involve lookind at kirtsen dunst's tits?

  • poor kristen hahah

  • This is all edited and out of context anyway; if you really want to know what happened, listen to the whole thing on the Cannes site.

  • What can we expect from the man that made Antychryst? He is a mental rebel is not shying from his own hypocrisy (societies own). He stated he understands Hitler not worships him, Something everyone killed would have been better off if they had done earlier. His provocation is to admit there is hate in the world and that he can understand how it effects peoples behavior. While racists hide and point. People do not want to know themselves. A mask of PC is worse than a mask of terror.

  • @mauicomp I agree but where I think he went wrong was when he said he sympathized with hitler a little bit. And I understand what Trier is saying, but it's hard for most people to have any sympathy for a man that went to war with the world and killed nearly 8 million people. I personally don't have any sympathy for Hitler. Not even a little bit. Maybe young Hitler but he budded into a mass murderer which negates any sympathy I have for the man who traded his own humanity for millions of jews

  • NAZI PIG!

  • @mypoliticalchannel such an open-mind...

  • I I I I I, uhh, was waiting, you know, uhhhh. ya, I I I I I was waiting for the end of the sentence, but but but but but, uhhhh, come on, oh nevermind!

  • He's a fuking Genius!!!....and there is absolutely no hypocrisy in his words ... let him talk with the art of cinema ... leave comments unnecessary and useless at the others...

  • @MrBrown871

    shut up. you don't know what you're talking about

  • Make movies that shows the beauty of Southern plantation estates and slave-owning Founding Fathers, get applause and rave reviews. Make a joke about Hitler, get blacklisted by Hollywood. Gotta love white privilege. Hate to break it to you, Jewish people, but as much as an antisemitic remark in 2011 may hurt your feelings, at the end of the day antisemitism is no longer holding you back in society, no more than anti-Irish and anti-Italian remarks hold back people of those heritages. You're white.

  • after seeing this video I don't see what all the fuss was about! kicking the guy out was obviously going too far. I think what he was trying to say was that he could understand the complexity of Hitler's character and what caused him to turn out the way he did. As already said, this all seemed like a language barrier caused problem.

  • I love you Lars von Trier.. The world need to get over themselves. Hitler was kinda hot.

  • @StopCallingMeJohn so irrelevant

  • It was extremely insensitive and stupid, but not particularly racist.

  • this is a fine example of stuck up hollywood making something out of nothing, I feel there's a significant language barrier in his meaning.

  • Oh, for Christ's sake Lars!! When you're standing in a grave, STOP DIGGING!!!

  • I used to understand Hitler just like Lars, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

  • I Think Lars Von Trier is one of the worlds most talented filmmakers and I love his films.

    Come on! he is not saying Jews should be slaughtered or anything like that relax. also people need to understand that he is a Genius.. and there is a short line between Genius and Mad. and that is the way he is. He is not like everyone else and that scares some people. And it Think the way Cannes handled the situation was wrong.... Trier <3

  • @rock00666

    can anyone think of a word besides genius? please, pretty soon everyone's going to be considered a genius. You artsy people can be full of it sometimes.

  • @mdilla11 Nazi?

  • Certainly a creative director, but he seems like he has a giant ego.

  • really? french people was offended by this? is obviously a silly joke 

  • ...covering face with hand palm

  • how do you say this with a straight face lol

  • mega trolling

  • w/e i knew he was racist after watching Dear Wendy...but i laughed when he had the main character say "I don't see what is so beautiful about him, I can see he is big...and black" lol his movies are still great though, cant wait to see melancholia, looks like it will be splendid

  • That's how you know this guy is a genius. You HAVE to be sort of aloof of all ideas about social norms in order to allow your subconscious to flourish and discover untapped sources of creativity. I've never heard of a true genius who wasn't controversial.

  • @YoonaNeomuYeppeoSeo Is "understanding Hitler" your idea of controversial? That must make you a super genius.

  • @livebigly Yes in some ways. But I wan't referring to this one incident. I was referring to his films. Namely Antichrist. Next time, ask yourself if you fully understand someone's comment before you decide to be an asshole.

  • I can't understand why this shocked so many people. Lars is not saying that he is pro-Hitler. He is just trying to say that he can understand Hitler's emotional state and subjective consciousness while sitting in his bunker before committing suicide.

    I can't wait to see Melancholia here in South Africa. This country of ours is so up to shit, that films always arrive late here. Anyway, Von Trier is a great director; one of my favourites.

  • I think we can all understand and sympathise with the man Adolf Hitler rather than only see the character in the horror story called WW2

  • @louiscfc93 Emmm , nop.

  • Just watched Dogville, and this sentence fits his ideology. If you watch the film you get the message. I'm pretty sure he's a fascist, but i hope not! You can find some right wing views on some of his films, but they are usually questioned by some other character in the film, like in one episode of Riget, where that one doctor wanted to kill one of the deformed guy and also shared some of his nazi believes, (weak must be destroyed). The opinions are usually combined with the opposite views.. wee

  • quote of the year lol

  • Typical Danish man. 

  • Whatever his believes are, the man deserves total respect for having some balls and say things that others consider some sort of tabu even though, they might have the similar thoughts.

  • "Sometimes, I hate you so much." - quote from the film.

    Anyone get the feeling that Kirsten might be thinking that, just a little, about Von Trier in this video? Poor thing looks so uncomfortable.

  • I'm here because of Indiewire......

  • I love Kirsten Dunst's reactions from about 1:50

  • im here because of ellen

  • Only knew about this because of Ellen

  • I'm here because of Ellen

  • Humans are complex and as unfathomable as life itself. One can either take offence or not. His films are as enlightening and mystifying as the man himself. Let's just call it art and laugh. Or else I might cry.

  • "I am of course very much for Jews... no, not too much." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Michael Richards has nothing on this guy. Brilliant. *single tear falls*

  • Everyone should be free to express their feelings and regardless of who and what the feeling aims for ,,why cant we talk about jews and hitler ? If someone likes or says i understand hitler u dont have the rite to say no u dont understand or no u cant like hitler .

  • Christ what a clusterfuck.

  • Lzsalum lol me too!

  • Kirsten dunst is so beautiful

  • I'm here cuz of Ellen.

  • I don't understand why people can't see that this was simply a joke. He started the joke, and got a few chuckles, and then silence. Of course he was going to keep rambling, that's what some people do in an awkward silence!

    I thought his jokes were comical.

  • I landed on this cause Kirsten Dunst said so on Ellen.

  • hahahahahaahahahahahahahahaahh­aahah Kirsten Dunt's face is like....WHAAAAAA?!?!?!?!?!

    OF COURSE HE IS NOT ANTI-SEMITE...WHAT A WAY TO PROMOTE A MOVIE hehe

  • aw pooor guy i think he got carried away buz he was soooooo nervous

  • Mention the H-word and the press will swoop down on you like vultures. What a mentality, these reporters.

  • Why would Associated Press post this without context? What are we supposed to do with an answer to a question without the question itself?

  • Folks... IT'S A BIG, FAT JOKE!:D

  • how can i get out of this sentence xD

  • Lars von Trier: an interesting film-maker... and the lousiest of jokers if there ever was one (and IF it was actually a joke)... truly sad... as if he needed (anyway, given the attention he already has, because of the films he does) to get into such trouble... I almost feel sorry for the moron... and what about "a nazi because my family is german"... what about the germans that were NOT nazis, moron? someone teach this genius film-maker some history... what a retard...

  • haha looks at gainsbourg smiling

  • waht the f*ck is he talking about??? xD

  • The reporter asked about Nazi aesthetic and their achievements in the field of design

  • I don't care what he said. Melancholia is just a hideous film.

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  • What did the journalist ask?

  • @GabelaiaDavid Excectly, I want to know who or what made him start talking about hitler on a press conference about this movie

  • 1:55 love how awkward the situation became

  • Sorry I wasn't listening, I was admiring Kirsten.. what a hottie!

  • ahahhahahah

    "i am for jews, oh no not very much, isreal is a pain in the ass.. HOW CAN I GET OUT OF THIS SENTENCE!" hahahaahahahahahhha

  • it was a metaphorical joke i think, it just came out really bad lol.

  • av av av, lars... tænk dig om...

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  • ok. Not cool.

  • Israel a pain in the ass? U yourself, my dear sir, are your own pain in your ass.

    Now please die!

  • @LifeC A pain in the ass is one thing that wishes death upon a joke. Please go and castrate yourself.

  • I understand Lars Von Trier. Of course, he did some wrong things, but I sympathise with him a little. <<<<< SEE WHAT I DID THERE HOHOHHH

  • Whether what he said was a joke or not, I don't think we'll be hearing much from him again.

  • @perthboywa

    LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

  • I understand Hitler too, does that make me a Nazi?

  • Black people find nationalism and slavery very normal, aslong it isn't done by white people.

  • I think he is more refering to, that he's a German. Jews find it very normal that they've got national feelings, Turkish people find it very normal and nessesary to have national feelings, Chinese, Japanese, but when German have them or any other European country it's called nazi (nationalists). Look at Mecca. Only for nazi muslims. Look at slavery, only happening in Africa and Azia, not by white people.

  • Only a crazy fuck artist will understand Hitler,normal people don't.

  • If you watch the beginning of the press conference I think its fairly safe to say he has to social compass, whether these are his real views or not, he just speaks.... hes like Larry David...

  • "He did some wrong things"? "I sympathise with him a little bit"? Are you kidding me? This is like saying, come on, Hitler wasn't really bad, it's just history book blurring his true and virtous personality.

    HOW ON EARTH CAN THAT BE A JOKE? How stupid is this director?

    And yes, I am german.

  • LOL :D

  • He is obviously not serious, and I think Von Trier's a great director, but there really was no excuse for him to make such clumsy and stupid remarks. In the same way political correctness is the summit of stupidity, provocation just for the sake of provocation, without any sense of sharpness or insightfulness (which I think Von Trier's very capable of, even on delicate matters) is absolutely unacceptable. You can't just call Cannes organisers snob for showing such things are intolerable.

  • Watch the end speech of Dogville. He definetely advoctes the POV that poor people don't deserve to live. How can he make it more clear?

  • @PtAltmVansanTarr

    How did you get that out of it I'll never know. He does not advocate such things in my view. I guess it's a matter of perspective. I think if he dislikes something, he dislikes human beings in general.

    In Antichrist there is a thesis that Lucifer created Earth, in Melancholia Justine claims that Earth is "evil".

    He does not have a problem with poor people in particular, or with jews or with women.

    He's a brilliant melancholic, there are a lot of those out there.

  • Hahaha... :-D "Israel is a pain in the ass" - what did he take to say sth like this in public or is this his normal behaviour? Just mind Kirsten's face when he says this.

    :-D So funny...

  • "err....How can i get out of this sentence..."

    Best line EVAR!!

  • His babbling was a pathetic attempt at sarcasm and a failed attempt at a joke. No matter where he is from and what his "culture's" sense of humour is like, what he did there is just plain idiotic gibberish that makes him sound like a moron. There is nothing political or racist or shocking or provocative about it, Kirsten is probably most embarassed because the man she just called a brilliant director is coming across as such a dimwit.

  • @jenniferh341 very well said

  • @OeeOO I understand.

  • That was fuckin embaressing for every one

  • It wasn't smart at all off him to make these conmments, but I think that due to his poor English, he couldn't explain what he actually ment...and he made it worse and worse for himself by trying to talk he's way out of it.

    I don't think he is a nazi but what happened in the second world war was so extremly terrible that you cannot say you understand and sympathise a bit with Hitler without expecting that "shit will it the fan"....I don't feel sorry for him

  • @Laveau Lars' english isn't THAT poor, that he couldn't explain it.He's suffering from some kind of syndrom that like forces him to say PUSSY, ASS, SHIT spontatiously, but that might not be the course though. Generally he has some kind of love to provoke people. If you ask me he isn't all O K. :/

  • @Laveau you're so right!

  • Lars is honest genius, peoples friend(like MR LENNON). Real, present danger TODAY (from 1948) ARE Israel and Zionists (not Jews), they control Your lives from day to day. Lars do not give-up, you are right ! Hitler and Holocaust are fookin past. Country Israel IS today Nazi Germany and we all paying price. "Muslim, Arab world" directly, rest of us indirectly.

    NO PASARAN !!

  • Bawwww...

  • "I really wanted to be a Jew but then i found out that i was really a Nazi" can't you see this is a JOKE!! but you probably prefer BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP as you are used to ...

  • Trier is genius! He is anyway right.

  • This is so funny, the way he makes fun of all the hypocrites gathered around. This guy is not a nazi, he just refuses to act the way it is considered polite in this topic, because that would be just plain dishonest. Yet the short sighted snobs banned him. That just shows how this industry works. No shame on him, only on the Cannes snobs.

  • @Cerkamatyi the usual hypocritical fascist bullshit...if someone said they sympathized with Stalin who was just as bad as Hitler if not worse (at least Hitler's crimes can be explained by bigotry and racism), they would not be met with such a hostile reaction...I get sick of it being one of those taboo parts of history which no one is allowed to discuss properly...

  • @Cerkamatyi this is like what happened with Mel Gibson as well...whenever someone does even the slightest thing to upset their fragile equilibrium they are demonized for no good reason...

  • Lean nuestro reporte sobre el escándalo que relaciona involuntariamente a Lars Von Trier con el autor de la masacre de Oslo, y que incluye además detalles sobre su nueva película erótica, en nuestro sitio en español!

  • The man tried to make a joke, c'mon, that's it!

  • @NickRiviera10 I guess Breivik got even more inspired after that statement by von Trier.

  • @ShareTheSphere hope not, 'cus if that was the case then Bin Laden got inspired by Oliver Stone 'n drug dealers are inspired by Robert Rodriguez and filmmaking is a crime...

  • @NickRiviera10 the problem is when a director who, becouse of the movies, is in the publ8ic eye reveals "negative" beliefs or values.

    Then deranged people might feel their crazy acts to be legitimate, especially if these individuals uses the movies ingredients in reality.

    In the public eye you have a responsability as there really are potential criminals out there.

    Von Trier acts very immature.

    That grin on his face tells me he is full of himself.

  • @ShareTheSphere yeah I think you are right but c'mon, crazy violent movies there always have been, from Passolini to Tarantino, here the negative statment was that von Trier instead of saying I'm sorry or just start talking about anything else, he started to defend Hitler, yeah it was wrong but as immature he was I think we are immature if we take too seriously what a man (who I'm not certain but I don't think he is a nazi) said...WRONG yes, IMPORTANT no, WAS he being serious? NO...

  • @NickRiviera10 I might not take his defending H. too seriously, but some will. That´s the point.

    If a movie filled with violence becomes cult , then the director should not as i von Triers case, state an opinion about understanding massmurderers.

    Take a lonely deranged man who looks for that type of attention...

    ,

  • @ShareTheSphere yeah like I'm saying I support your point, it's just I don't think we should take what he said too seriously, other than that he was wrong...I like the antichrist, and Melancholia I also like Tarantino's films just like Rodriguez's ones but yeah I agree with what you say...

  • @ShareTheSphere the problem is not the films he makes but the opinion he has about serious matters...it's like making a film supporting the nazi movement, that's your point right?

  • @ShareTheSphere then...I agree with you...

  • @NickRiviera10 Just to clerify..I: love a group called Steely Dan and I´m therefore very intrested in the persons behind the music ,

    I feel connected to the minds of the artists as I like the music so much.

    Let´s say Donald Fagen (who is a brilliant composer) had radical ideas , then i would mayby figure that those ideas must be close to my own.

    It´s about identification.

    The Norway killer also had people with radical ideas that he copied to be his own.

  • Awesome Lars,always great to see libtard free speech Nazis drop jaws and flip out, Lars rules!

  • DOWN with any kind of brain watching ideology, such as nazism, zionism and so...

  • If I were Kirsten Dunst I would have walked out on his attempts at humour towards the end.

  • Whatever is he talking about? What a moron

  • his films are awful thats all i care about

  • @thememoryremains100 you obviously know nothing about movies

  • @thememoryremains100 and i am sure that you like transformers very much!

  • He was trolling LOL

  • Was ist, demokratische Welt, du setzt dich doch für eine Meinungsfreiheit! Gefällt dir nun deine Brut nicht? Oder ist es nur eine Meinungsfreiheit, die nur POSITIVE Meinungen hören möchte? Wo ist dann die Freiheit? Ist es keine Diktatur, was du diktierst???

  • Americans are stereotypical and xenophobic creatures and USA belongs to Jews, you know, they think all Germans are nazis or that all Italians and Russians are in mafia and I'm glad I'm not from USA, thanks Jesus!

  • @lyceeee You say that all Americans stereotype other people, but aren't you stereotyping Americans?

  • Wow He's so incredibly bad at expressing himself in english, or maybe just in general

  • Hahaha. So awkward. Love this man.

  • google facebook and youtube are owned by jews. youtube is owned and started by larry page and sergey brin, both jews. so its absoultely hillarious to see bigots on here - as usual bigots use all jewish services to upload videos and spread their hate.

  • @thamonkee0510 Yeah it's good we have freedome of speech laws created all over the west. Maybe tose tree should be taken over by someone being more neutral?

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  • google facebook and youtube are owned by jews

  • I love this guy he is amazing and so full of weird humor

  • Considering how much zionists lobbies are destroying America and the whole world, Lars has absolutely right. The jews corrupted our society and our values through culture, finance, science and politics. USA are a jewish nation, not a christian nation. Jews are for laissez-faire, multiculturalism and destruction of christian religion to conquer the world and to rule the world. Considering the behaviour of Israel, the REAL NAZIS are israelian people and zionists inside western society.

  • @Francesko263 I'd rather be fucked in my arse by a Jew, then a Christian.

  • @ArtjomGlad Do you find circumcised cocks with much more stamina, do you?

  • jesus what the fuck? what an idiot

  • JEW CRY BABIES!!! EVERYTGHING THEY TOUCH TURNS TO SHIT

  • Who else is confused by this man's statements and the sudden outburst of nasty and stupidly patriotic comments, which were obviously wanted by the Director in making such a deliberately contriversial comment for the sake of it.

  • Lars is contradicting himself! And out of proportion...

  • BECAUSE YOUR FAMILY WAS GERMAN YOU'RE A NAZI???? FUKK YOU!!! FUKK ALL YOU HOES WHO THINK ALL GERMANS ARE NAZIS YOU STUPID MORONS.

  • @trumpetsoul are u a german? I guess it's getting quite old now to be bunched up with the nazis then.. There where several people who where germans who stood up against the regime; Sophie Scholl and her brother for instance.. That is noteworthy! :)

  • @DrErnst Yes I'm half german, half filipino. And I'm just tired of this stupid prejudice coming mostly from american folks...it's so incredibly ignorant, stupid and retarded...I could just say typically american but I would be the same then...

  • dancer in the dark is the saddest movie in the whole world. thumbs up if you agree.

  • talk about blown out of proportion.

  • charlotte gainsbourg is priceless

  • Lars = Master Troll

  • @Di0genesus haha

  • I see nothing*

  • I totally agree with the man. Why does noone else? I nothing wrong with his statement at all.

  • @WormaUploader Everyone knows you don't mention the H words.

  • I think one have to be enslaved by turks to understand that..

  • Serbs remind of whites.. They are just happy when happy, but when unhappy /'unchristians ./.

  • He is so adorable and talented

    I dont care about his joke! French are nazi,look at what they did to algercia!

  • @markchan006

    have you ever being in france ? i think you speak too much without knowing anything about our history, ok we had colonies in the past but we made our country without killing indians for example !!