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  • great film making

  • It's not a matter of good or bad, its a matter of coming to peace with ur demons, every time I see it, it teminds me that we ALL were innocent children once, sad what this world does to us

  • cual es la canción que acompaña esta bella y emotiva escena?

  • This scene is very symbolic. We all shower everyday to clean ourselves. That's exactly what Derek does; however, once he saw his swastika tattoo in the mirror, he realizes that he could never wash away his brutal past of hatred & racism. He covers his tattoo with his right hand, because deep down inside, he wishes that it was never there as it haunts him.

  • @GoodFellax21 :) very nice

  • IM FROM A CHICANO CLIQUE PN THE STREEY EVEN THOUGH IM HALF WHITE... THIS SCENE IS the GREATEST SCENE IN THE HISTORY OF FILM, IF UR FROM L.A. U KNOW U FELT THIS WHPLE MOVIE TO THE HEART, FUCKING BRILLIANT!!!!!

  • If you came here to see a man get raped gtfo...

  • Doesn't this just make you want to be a kid again? A time where you were innocent, care free, and the world wasn't on your shoulders?

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  • Just imagine showering for over two years with the constant thought in the back of your mind that you may be jumped and raped, and there aint nobody who's going to stop it. I've always loved this scene as it really drives home the emotion one can have to feel truly free.

  • The flashback of them being kids, shows how innocent they once were.

  • @ReconRaptor and its the only one in color

  • why this film hasn't won oscars it beats me.

  • I like how his tattoos were symmetrical. Although they did look drawn on with a black Sharpie

  • I think the film making for American history x is so beautiful and amazing like a symphony of emotions. It really is heart touching.

  • this music kills me every time :(

  • I am with grouchycalico: This scenes breaks me down every time I see it. I have ni idea why, but it is one of the most moving I have ever seen.

  • Isn't this the only scene which shows the past in colours, not only in black and white?

  • @Daseppo The colours aren't about past and present, they are about transition. In this scene Norton's character finally changes from "bad" to "good".

  • @DiscoRByrno Always loved music man, my whole family, my dad plays piano, keyboard, ukelele, harp and sings, my mum plays clarinet, recorder and sings, my sister sings, I rap, sing and songwrite, it's such an awesome way to express yourself, I just recently did a rap song about 9/11, it was from the point of view of the victims, i think it's pretty hard-hitting stuff.

  • As an ex-gang member, who used to fight against such people, including my own people... this is always the part of the film that made me cry... how we forgot the true nature of our being...

  • @DiscoRByrno I also see you're a musician, very cool indeed, I'm a musician too, it's a very fun way to spend time:)

  • @DiscoRByrno I get where you're coming from,I'm religious myself,and I'm thoroghly ashamed of how messages that were originally layed down by wise people have been contorted and twisted to suit others needs,but religion isn't where this stems from,it's human selfishness,and I see religion as more of a way of feeling good and fulfilled in life,as opposed to an attempt at finding an "Explanation" to something,but I respect your views and can tell you're a very intelligent person, no hard feelings?

  • @DiscoRByrno But you have to remember that this is due to a severe mis-interpretation of Islam and everything it stands for, much like The Crusades, when British Christians slaughtered 1000s because they were of a different creed or religion, simply because humans mis-interprate things.

  • I love how neo nazis say things need to go back to the way they were before. White people werent the first to the americas so by that statement everyone would be going back to europe. I love this movie because of the message. I have been dating a girl for 8 months now and she is jewish by blood. my 13 year old brother is a skin head neo nazi. I wish people would become more educated and less ignorant. Racism and hate sovles nothing and prove nothing except pure stupidity

  • I love how neo nazis say things need to go back to the way they were before. White people werent the first to the americas so by that statement everyone would be going back to europe. I love this movie because of the message. I have been dating a girl for 8 months now and she is jewish by blood. my 13 year old brother is a skin head neo nazi. I wish people would become more educated and less ignorant. Racism and hate sovles nothing and prove nothing except pure stupidity

  • Anyone know the name of the song playing?

  • @DiscoRByrno thanks, i don't speak english very well but i was just saying i really don't understand racism, i don't know how the situation actually is in europe, but i think everyone should have the same rights regardless of their looks or their religion. after all hate is just a burden.

  • Amercan history x 4 Life

  • Like NORTON, Like ANTIVIRUS

  • Norton is the man..

  • Lmao by shower scene, I thought this was gonna be the OTHER shower scene, I got scard for a sec

  • Amazing scene!!!

  • STOP invasion a Europa

    Europa, resistencia unida contra el invasor.

    Save Europe, save our son.

    (Sorry english, im spanish)

  • @wakawakaeeh

    Fuck off

  • @wakawakaeeh ¿a quien te refieres, a los musulmanes? siendo tu español deberias saber que tu raza es la que mas parentesco con el islam tiene, ademas que yo sepa ellos no son hostiles, solo tienen diferentes modos de vida, por que los odian esta mas alla de mi entendimiento.

  • y tu al ser iberoamericano, imagino que sabras que tambien tienes parentesco con los musulmanes. (Logicamente segun tu teoria, claro)

  • @wakawakaeeh fuck off!

  • @mruttube You do not know what you're Saying.You think you accept non-European immigration is to be tolerant and good person, and multiculturalism That Enriches us, Sorry, but it is not.You are cheating.Coudenhove-Kalergi read about in 1923 and plans. And look what is happening in Europe today.The immigration of people who have no common link with us,does not benefit at all any of the parties.Multiculturalism has never worked and will never work. Reflect,will soon be a minority in our own countr

  • @DiscoRByrno Oh I didn't mean for you to read your comments, I meant like I read ["red"] over all of it haha.

  • @DiscoRByrno Read your comments, you make really good points. I got a feeling he's just trolling you though.

  • @DiscoRByrno

    Guess what? I don't agree. I don't agree and there is nothing you can do to change that. I think you're a fucking idiot who thinks he is the moral police.

    That being said, I am right. You are wrong. There's nothing you can do about it.

  • @DiscoRByrno

    So? how is that a false mentality? It's entirely logical from my standpoint. Only the fit survive in this cruel world.

  • @DiscoRByrno

    Normally, I have a word for people like you. However, I consider you worthy of this: I respectfully disagree.

  • @DiscoRByrno

    You're wrong.

  • @DiscoRByrno

    My stance is thusly:

    The right to live with my people by choice, the right to keep my community clean of other races, the right to live by the old ways, the right to persue excelence, and the right to defend my ways.

    A tyranical state does not support these kinds of freedoms. A small-time community like I want doesn't have enough room for a leader with absolute power. People in these communities live by proven methods and have traditions.

  • @Vovk3

    If there is a leader, he will only be there in times of major crisis. According to the traditions of my ancestors, one can say whatever they want, even if the entire community doesn't agree. They know what it means to live and let live.

    What I disagree with is groups that say I cannot live life how I have set it out to be. Groups that attempt to brainwash you into believeing as they do. My ways are entirely by free association. If you don't agree, either accept that or leave.

  • @Vovk3

    How does this tie in with Nazism? Both our ideologies are highly traditional. Nazi ideology does not, in fact, advocate hatred towards other groups (neo-Nazi fools do that). Germany was to be for Germans only. Allied propaganda says this was about blind hatred, when it really was not.

    Do I hate other races? No. I simply let them live as they do within their own boundaries. However, there are some that will be very intrusive and undermining of others (often Jews). These I don't support.

  • @Vovk3

    This is why certain racial groups must be driven out of certain places. When these immigrants arrive, they deracinate the ways of the locals and implant their own culture, thus destroying another. Cultural genocide, if you will. Unfortunately, Jews, Arabs and blacks are notorious for this. They add nothing of value to the locals. Just look what happened to British society. Immigrants destroyed their society and replaced it with a bastardized version of their own.

    Do you understand now?

  • @DiscoRByrno

    Everyone has an ideology.

    Saying that I believe in something that is wrong says something very important about yourself: There should be a dictatorship without freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of association... I'm not the one here who advocates the hateful ideology. And where did I say I was a neo-nazi searching for recruits? Where did I say hating and killing is the way to go?

    All I hear from you is this: I support a tyranical state.

  • @DiscoRByrno

    What if I told you that I thought your ideology was bullshit? What if I told you if it was stupid?

    Fuck no. I will say whatever I want to whoever I want. The internet is not a place where you can lecture or control another man.

  • @DiscoRByrno

    Wow, looks like I need to call the wa-wa-wambulance!

    Seriously though, quit lying to yourself.

  • @DiscoRByrno Yeah the internet is such serious fucking business.

  • @DiscoRByrno What a hippie.

  • man,do i like men with beard... grrr

  • @DiscoRByrno

    There is duality in things like this. And don't call my facts bullshit because you can't understand them.

  • @jeskamazing Who? The black guy?

  • omg at 0:41-0:42, i thought the bird shat on the baby's face!!!!

  • My favourite part I'm a 23 year old male and this always gets me. Just shows how the world corrupts your mind. From running around on a beach without a care in the world to having so much hate and baggage. Makes you realise just how little time you have and that you should always enjoy yourself.

  • @robbasin this scene embodies his feeling of being free from any ideology and the memory of his childhood watching these birds fly, emphasize that experience.

  • @robbasin

    Hate isn't baggage. you must hate in order to love.

  • omg this little kid is sooo beautiful!!!

  • @giwrgia1 pedo :3

  • edward norton.. yum

    oh good movie, too

  • Better than Taylor lxxxxxx

  • I proffered the other shower scene

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  • Beautiful music in here.

  • I am not the same person after i watched it!

  • From what I've read, the original ending put this scene at the end, after danny died. Apparently, he was meant to cover up the tattoo on his chest, look in the mirror, take his hand away, then shave his head again, and go back to the D.o.C.

  • @barbedwirejanitor I'm sure the nazi fan base would have preferred that ending lol. I don't know how to feel about that. It definitely would've been some powerful shit though. Thanks for the info. Never knew that.

  • @barbedwirejanitor If that was the orignally planned ending, then I'm glad they took the final edit away from Kaye. Rejoining the DoC is not realistic at all. People that deprogram themselves from malevolent or mind control cults don't go back. Why? Because they're onto the lies and the manipulation that define such groups. Especially an intelligent person like Danny, who states earlier in the film that "it's all bullshit". I don't buy him crawling back to Cameron begging to be let back in.

  • fit

  • How Edward Norton hasn't won an Oscar yet is a puzzle i wrestle with everyday.

  • wie kann man nur nazi sein ?

    so dumm kann ein mensch nicht sein 

  • Did anyone else notice the yiddish description to this video? Hahaha Verklempt... Oy Vey!

  • 21 nazi skinheads out there

  • @MightySheep25 you perv:D

  • @MightySheep25 that's why you clicked this movie? xD

  • @MightySheep25 nyaa where can I find it?? :DD

    lol

  • ed norton's the only actor that can play a wimpy good guy, good guy, likeable guy, guy you wanna punch in the face, crazy ass, Nazi, that man is talent. 

  • @MightySheep25  you wanted to see it again?

  • Prison rape ain't funny in any venue!

  • @MrMacgla HOW U KNOW???

  • very good-looking guy!

  • @jceowoodard Yeah, he went from being that cute guy to a manly man for this role.

  • To me, it was the most poignant scene in the movie. Thinking about his life then and now. Excellent movie.

  • i wanted the rape scene. this is just some dude in a shower. much gayer

  • @Jumpmann I dont know what way u meant your comment but it sounds sick LOL

  • @Jumpmann and yet you still watched it?

  • Oh. It's not THAT shower scene. I was worried for a second.

  • @Glamoramaful Still you clicked the link...

  • for some reason when I see this scene in particular it makes me cry, because of all the thing i seen and done makes me want to revert to my child hood when innocents was all i have ever known.

  • american history x is like the only movie thats made me cry multiple times while watching it. damn i love edward norton....

  • man tears.

  • and yes,blacks are human beings,just like whites.....we are all shaped by life's events. It's a journey we all undertake. Racism simply leads to hate, hate to suffering....

  • At the end of the day, you always have to face your conscience. However, where was Derek' s family and friends and/or the local community when his father died? No spiritual guidance, no help,no one to turn to. I know this because when my father died, I had just turned sixteen, my mother and brother were all alone, no help from the outside. I could have been intoxicated easily. It's pretty tough when you hear your mother crying in the kitchen on how she is going to pay the bills......

  • @Moralvorstellung28 , What is even more amaging is the emerging bi racial ones--- they are virile, stronger, smarter and seem to be in both worlds and enjoying the difference. Man, we have all got to catch up!

  • @MrMacgla

    Are you that gullible to believe that mixed people are some sort of supermen?

  • The illusion of society. This movie, whilst extreme brings up some very good points. Such as when you see the flashback of the real father sitting discussing the new teacher at the dinner table. Why should two black men over white men who may be better for the job, just so that nothing is seen as being biased or racist. It's pathetic, we're so caught up in being anti racist that it's almost racist to white people.

  • Such a great movie, I remember the first time I saw it I was like wow this is really good. No one has made a movie quite like this. Exceptional acting, great storytelling. Good message, I love this movie. It was so well made.

  • @mar27sha27 what was the message ?

  • First man on Earth was black!

  • the swastika in ancient times was a meaning of good will & luck... Hitler took it as his own & desecrated it.... the swastika & the rebel flag has been used as a thing of hate... But before the rebel flag the KKK used the Stars & Bars as there flag... Now that its 2011 EVERYONE needs to get over it & just live your life & not care what anyone says or thinks... This coming from an ordained minister that follows the church of Satan now, has started & stopped hate groups & is gay...

  • Stop the hate people, cause that's all we are....... people

  • Can anyone PLEASE tell me what song this is?

  • @MCstarr87 Erin Vulench - Time Has Come, one of my favourite tunes. pretty popular, should be easy to find. He's loads more good stuff like this. Check him out

  • They show this at my school >:P

  • Looking at the comments and thinking: you are all worth each other doesn't matter white or black. I'd like to remind that there are a white AND black supremacist groups!

  • I swear! they shouldve made a pg-13 version of this movie so they can show it in schools! everyone should see this! just an amazing movie...

  • white people are spineless immoral savages! they think they are superior to everyone and they have massacred innocent people! White people deserve eternal hell!

  • @TheUndertakerSaysRIP cmon now bro. yes, ALOT of white people do. MANY of them. but im white, and i have utmost respect for black culture and rastafarian beliefs. you cant label a race of ppl because of personal actions some ppl commit. i understand your hate tho, you probably dont live in the best of areas, environmental wise.

  • @TheUndertakerSaysRIP look at what we built look how you destroy everything you have we give you electricity you smash electrical poles we give you petrol for cars you sniff the shit to get high . god i hate un grateful little fuckers. you sir are a bad troll now back to the bridge with you

  • @skeletor1993 WTF!!!!!.... why would you assume that I'm black??? you fucking ignorant pig!  white people are the most ignorant savages I have ever met!!

  • @TheUndertakerSaysRIP what are you then if your white you should be ashamed of yourself you race traitor

  • @skeletor1993 shut up you filthy white trash! burn in hell

  • @TheUndertakerSaysRIP read skeletor's comment again. He never mentions any race. You assume he assumes you are black. And to answer your initial comment, not every single white person is guilty of genocide. Yes there was american slavery, apartheid, the final solution, and the cowboy-indian war, but there is also the rwandan genocide, the armenian genocide, saddam's "ethnic cleansing" of the kurds, and the rape of nanking, to name a few incedents. By your logic, the whole world deserves to burn.

  • @skeletor1993 you're disgusting just stfu and go back to your fuckin trailer park we live in the 21st century, i cant believe some people are so intolerant at this day in age, pathetic people like yourselves

  • @TheUndertakerSaysRIP

    are you saying that about all white people? im white, and ive never massacred any innocent people

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  • Best movies scene ever

  • i liked this movie until it stated on the redemptive road thats hollywood for you

  • @ybot1983 its also real life. take a trip to prison sometime and you'll see plenty of people who just fucked up and saw red but who are paying the price for it.

    the reason why people get derailed so much in life is because it takes those moments to truly develop perspective and character, and from that to find out who you really are.

    life is not studying, getting a well played job and calling your life a 'success' if that is all you experience in it.

    that's being a lemming.

  • @badintentions2 yeah i understand its not a good lifestyle choice to go to prison but he could of been jailed for different reasons, i wasnt convinced by how he goes in a neo nazi and comes out tolerant of blacks, i suspect the screenplay wouldnt have got through if he came out a racist who made sure to control his temper

  • really sad movie.

  • I am jacks sense of flavourful tattoo.

  • @IVe0mI hahahaha. hell yea dude.

  • man rape

  • Why does he place his hand on his right chest muscle?

  • @ilemakedonests he wants to see what he would look like without the swastika on his chest

  • @branDUMBskies Ow ok, i had a feeling that would be the reason, thanks by the way.

  • @ilemakedonests np. oh and btw, its his left chest muscle. not his right :3

  • @branDUMBskies ye thats right, the mirror confused me, thanks again.

  • EDWARD NORTON IS THE GREATEST ACTOR,HE SHOULD HAVE WON SOME OSCAR BY NOW !!!! <3 <3 <3

  • @anabella1609 so true. i can't believe it. he's so incredibly talented!

  • this film is fuckin jewish propaganda kick the jews and monkeys

  • @ABSOLUTCDNV aww, someone's paranoid! Don't worry, you can hate all you like - that's your baggage, not ours :-)

  • @ABSOLUTCDNV ha. nice try trolling. you're not even white.

  • @AwesomeMcTubbs do you think so? cause i don't

  • I've been making my family cry often for some reason. There are times when I look in the mirror and wonder why I'm so cold now.

  • i hope one day everyone 'wakes up' inside like this.just shows how upbringing,bitterness and misplaced grief destroys lifes and can create ur perception so much and totally brainwash u.hating the wrong ppl.beautiful scene.he should have go an oscar.

  • 14/88

  • This scene is so POWERFUL and MOVING!

    Wow, my chest literally clinched.

    The symbolism is spot on PERFECT!

  • The wrong shower scene is selected :D

  • @nickra60 u wanted the one where he gets raped?

  • @TiagoNigga I am sorry, but I have to refuse your marriage proposal....

  • @nickra60 hilarious one rite there =D

  • the sound track is brilliant

  • This is just one of the movies which should have earned an Oscar for Ed Norton. He is a superb actor.

  • The lesson that this movie teaches is that niggers will always be murderous criminals. They had an ending for this film where Derek goes back into the bathroom where his brother was killed and shaves his head, going back to being a WN Skinhead, but the Jews wouldn't let them use it.

  • @PhatFarm60 you are hilarious.

  • @AquariusRevolution And you are a flaming homosexual

  • @PhatFarm60

    Actually no, "niggers," aren't all murderous criminals.

    You have no excuse to remain in ignorance. You have the damn Internet.

    You are fully capable and priviledged to research: "black lawyers, doctors, inventers, politicians, scientist, surgeons, chemist, authors, etc"...

    I am black and I am straight in line with the law.

    I don't feel random urges to go into violence out-burst and ruin the lives of others.

  • makes me think of me and my little cousin playing on the beach.. and we went bowling alot too.. but as i got older i became busy and i didnt have time to do stuff with him and then I found out later day he hung himself cause he was bullied.. he hung himself in june of 2009 It just goes to show everyone.. you should make time for your little siblings or cousins.. cause one day they wont be there..

  • this is a fucking intense scene!

  • we do all racists like this movie?

    it's an anti-racist movie.

  • @CageKiller1 because most racists are too fuckin dumb to get that

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  • Chest plates <3

  • Hate is baggage.

  • the song?

  • @aleaox Anne Dudley - Two Brothers. from the original american history x soundtrack.

  • This scene has so much meaning. The part with Derek and Danny as children running in the beach just shows that we are all born with pure hearts and souls... And though they may become tainted as we live life, like Derek, a sudden event pushes us to look back and think that maybe we were walking down the wrong path. The shower, the beach, the seagulls... all great allusions.

  • @Vanze42 the idea of the shower is also perfect, a kind of cleansing.

  • @Vanze42 Did you close your eyes and beat off to those images? What a fag.

  • @Vanze42 i swear thats why i love my animals so much there pure beings that know nothing but love not like us they know no hate i think there gods way of letting us know he exists there is a pure loving being but its not us