Wow. I'm amazed at how unbelievably racist that movie is, despite the fact that it tries to criticize nazi germany. It basically tells us to look at the world in black and white, this makes me sick
This film makes no 'attempt' to critique our actual world history, it has a blatant message about propaganda and cultural control. It reminds me of something I heard Harlan Ellison say in a documentary the other day, that The same people who would walk on by and look the other way seeing something bad happen to an old lady on the street are the same people who would be in the street with their pitchforks if you took away their TV. Cause you don't like it when they take away your dope, man!!!
Here's wikipedia's entry on Wizards to help-
The film is an allegorical comment on the moral neutrality of technology and the potentially destructive powers of propaganda. Blackwolf's secret weapon is propaganda, used to incite and motivate his legions and terrorize the good fairy folk of Montagar; Blackwolf also utilizes technology for evil ends. However, in the end, it is Avatar's willingness to use a technological tool (a handgun pulled from "up his sleeve") which saves them all. Bakshi also states that Wizards "was about the creation of the state of Israel and the Holocaust, about the Jews looking for a homeland, and about the fact that fascism was on the rise again"
So, that swastika is used prominently not to show connection to history but to show the symbol holds no power and has no effect over Blackwolf's followers. They aren't even interested and only react when Blackwolf shows the PROPAGANDA FOOTAGE (technology) which riles them up for war at the moment of the explosions!
Hitler could have easily used this movie in his own propaganda simply by changing the nazi symbol from the mutants to the elves.
Hitler could have!? Hitler did!
Der ewige Jude (The eternal Jew) is the most powerful piece of propaganda known. The proprietors of this site may be familiar for it was made in Poland at the height of the Great Depression after Germany took over. The film is publicly banned in Germany outside of college classrooms. German soldiers took the least 'assimilated' prisoners (So they would look the most "alien" to the West) who lived amidst what history books described as "grinding poverty"- then held them at gunpoint and made them move about their eyes to look crazy on camera, or else they'd execute them. The film brought anti semitism to new heights. This really happened! People were duped through technology to think that all Jews were un-human or demons! How could it be a lie?, they just saw it! This was done just with a film! It even got as far as the United States thanks to its support from the anti-semite zillionaire Henry Ford. And the US certainly never learned better, simply watch the "news" on cable television!! It's all phony!
Better believe that Bakshi was aware of Hitler's film when he made his. None of the allegory in his films is skin deep despite being cartoons. Don't think for a minute you can just write them off to such simple connections. Can't think of a better way to describe his stereotypes except maybe "incestuous" and thats leaving a lot out. If Wizards offends you don't you dare watch Coonskin or Heavy Traffic!
The Lord of The Rings is racist!!! More racist than this film! And thats not Bakshi's fault it's Tolkein's!!!
