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I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking… Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.
Christopher Isherwood, A Berlin Diary
Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome,
Im cabaret, au cabaret, to cabaret.
Cabaret
Like schnitzel und schnapps, cinema and the Nazis go well together. For Hollywood, they have always been the go-to bad guys in a way that Communists, for example, have not.
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Excellent review. I believe Greg Johnson pointed out that the films best attribute is that it makes the Nazis look good compared to the alternative. Also Joel Grey’s performance as the disgusting Jewish emcee was an accurate portrayal of Jews themselves.
Cabaret inspires fascinated disgust because of the moral and sexual depravity of the main characters.
The world of the Kit-Kat Klub is an aspect of our enemy, like trans treatments for toddlers. It’s not the most important aspect of White genocide but it is horrifying and we should be horrified.
“Irredeemable” is a harsh word, but there Sally and her associates are, being irredeemable, to music, with dance numbers and self-congratulatory songs.
Back in 1972 one went to the movies and your choice was whatever was playing…at least where I grew up. We thought the gayest character, besides the MC, was the Hitler youth singing Tomorrow Belongs To Me and laughed.
But to the point, who would’ve thought we’d be here in 2024 charging our phone through a USB port on our couch and that the library would be the new cabaret. With the unsavoury characters and homeless hanging around libraries these days, maybe somebody should write a sequel set there.
Unlike Al Dante, I thought that the sequence of “Tomorrow belongs to me” as being both uplifting and chilling, as a glimpse of what might have been with better choices on all sides.
Cabaret saw eight Oscars, including…Joel Grey as Best Supporting Actor for his role as the MC
If you want to see Asian butthurt at its finest, read up on the “controversy” over the casting of Grey as the Korean martial arts master Chiun in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. The controversy, of course, is that Grey (a Jew) was cast in the role instead of an actual Korean, or even an Asian.
The first time I remember that happening was Jonathan Pryce in Miss Saigon in London (80s, I think), playing the part as a dreaded white man in gookface.
minor correction_ The Godfather (not the French Connection) was awarded the 1972 Oscar for best motion picture.
Good review. Thank you for omitting the anti-Nazi rant that is inserted into every review by “legacy media” rags.
The interweb claims otherwise, but I shall investigate.
A link to the filmsite.org database is below.
https://www.filmsite.org/aa72.html
French Connection (released in 1971) won Best Picture at the 1972 Oscars; GF (released in 1972) won Best Picture at the 1973 Oscars.
Correct. The big ceremony with oscars is the following year.
Mark, we are both right.
I’ve heard that Berghain is the acme of post-war Germany’s hedonist decadence where supposedly musk was rejected. And I recently caught H.R. Pufnstuf’s Living Island video that I hadn’t seen in forever. A quintessentially happy moment of the true English. Rest in peace, Jack Wild.
I always considered it a fluke that the Jew Joel Katz (stage name Grey) won the Oscar for best supporting actor. Al Pacino in GF delivered a superior performance.
Likewise for Best Director: FF Coppola>>Fosse
BC: January 1, 2025 I always considered it a fluke that the Jew Joel Katz (stage name Grey) won the Oscar for best supporting actor.
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Mr. Katz portrayed his degenerate character well so was awarded the Oscar by the Academy.
For those who hadn’t seen it, Jews screwed up when they included the inspirational National Socialist song “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” in Cabaret: Search for it.
Do you suppose Hollywood nepotism was at play when Joel’s daughter, Jennifer Katz aka Grey, had a lead role in that popular Jew movie “Dirty Dancing”? After that flick Jennifer got a couple of nose jobs to look more Aryan, but those backfired on her like “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” did for creators of Cabaret. Jennifer Grey Reveals She Got Nose Job Due to Mother’s Encouragement – Newsweek
I liked musicals when I grew up, and my brother had dozens of recordings. Cabaret was one I bought, and I liked the music. When the movie came out, my brother and I took my grandmother and mother to St. Louis to see the film (sixty miles away…a lot of top films didn’t make it to our town). After a half-hour my mother and grandmother walked out, disgusted with the film. This surprised my brother and myself. I can see that more, now. I also saw a revival of the stage musical Cabaret in Boston, with Joel Gray reprising his role. It is different in the film, as the stage musical has a Nazi activist who is there off and on. Not exactly a villain, but more a “camera” commenting on the instability of Weimar Germany.
I agree the show is a perfect view of Jewish cosmopolitanism, and we’re offered a contrast to Sally Bowles, who lives for the moment, aborts her child and spurns marriage with an English writer (what was he thinking?) because the show must go on, and ya gotta live, baby, under the lights. This is the theme of most musicals, always idolizing this moth-like attraction to “the show.” All the degeneracy of Cabaret is a glory to exhibitionism and the ephemeral, but it’s an attractive, glitzy degeneracy, esp. the film, since Bob Fosse did some great dance numbers. The attraction of the new metropolis versus older values was a common theme in Weimar Germany. I think of Murnau’s Sunrise, which is the same theme, and certainly The Blue Angel is an example of corruption.
But to the musical world, corruption is good for you. Like in the sixties, where being a doper was noble and inspiring…much like in the 20’s, which was the age of the noble drunk. See Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh for a sample of this. You may be drunk, a loser, on the skids…but you’re noble. You see the straight life for the boring life it is. if you’re drunk…you SEE it all, man. Just update gin for LSD and it’s the same thing.
If you examine every musical, it is essentially an homage to New York and showbiz. There’a always a number about NYC or nightclub/stage life that glorifies the “scene.” Even in The Black Crook (1871), a very popular musical taking place in the netherworld and 17th century Germany, there is a song about “The Broadway, Opera and Bowery Crawl.”
In the movie Cabaret, the song Tomorrow Belongs to Me opens up into a beer garden where Hitler Youth gather and the youth are dutiful, idealistic, and…gay? Boy, I didn’t;t see that. In the play, the number is sung by the waiters at the Kit-Kat-Klub.
Also another example of rootless cosmopolitanism, since the Kit-kat-Klub was originally in 18th century London a meeting house for Whigs, sponsored by an Alexander Katt. The Kit-Kats were meat pies, a favorite menu item to be washed down with ale and whatever.. So it was stealing an English name and place, although if there is a connection to sexual deviancy and meat pies, please let me know.
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