Die Welle, The Wave [Region All, NTSC]

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Ducey, Patricia. "Experiment in Fascism at an American High School: The Lesson Plan @ The Newport Beach Film Festival". Libertas Film Magazine . Retrieved May 12, 2011. a b c d e f Ina Hochreuther: Die Schule und die Diktatur In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, 13. März 2008, S. 32

Das Drehbuch beruht auf einem Artikel von Ron Jones, in dem er seine Erinnerungen an den Versuch schilderte. Die Rechte, die bei Sony lagen, wurden Dennis Gansel für einen deutschen Film überlassen. [7] Dadurch erhielten Morton Rhue, dessen Roman den Stoff insbesondere in Deutschland popularisierte, und der herausgebende Ravensburger-Verlag keine unmittelbare Vergütung aus dem Filmprojekt. [8] Gansel schrieb ein Jahr lang am Buch, ehe er Peter Thorwarth als Koautor beizog. [9] Das Drehbuch verlegt den Versuch aus dem Kalifornien der 1960er Jahre ins Deutschland der Gegenwart, an einen nie namentlich genannten Ort, der stellvertretend für das ganze Land steht. Gansel erklärte, er habe Jones’ Versuch nicht exakt nacherzählen, sondern zeigen wollen, wie er im heutigen Deutschland ablaufen würde. Der Film sei keine Adaption, Figuren und Dialoge, Anfang und Ende habe er geändert. [10] [11] Dazu zählen Nebenaspekte – das Footballteam der Vorlage spielt im Film Wasserball, und der Trainer ist der Lehrer selbst – vor allem jedoch die im Film eingeführte physische Gewalt und das blutige Ende. Dennoch behauptete Gansel in einem Pressegespräch, er habe unbedingt ausschließen wollen, dass sein Film so stark vom damaligen Versuch abweiche wie das Buch von Rhue. Dabei bezeichnete er Jones, der dem Filmprojekt als Berater zur Verfügung stand, als „praktisch unser lebendes Echtheitszertifikat“. Jones halte die Figuren in Rhues Roman für schlecht getroffen. [12] Der Ex-Lehrer äußerte sich dazu, Gansels Film komme den tatsächlichen Begebenheiten „unglaublich nahe“. [4]Internet Movie Database. www .imdb .com /title /tt1063669 /releaseinfo. Ανακτήθηκε στις 17 Αυγούστου 2016. a b Bernice Sakuma & Robin Leler (April 7, 1967). "Through the Tiger Eye". Cubberley Catamount. Vol.11, no.13. Ellwood P. Cubberley High School . Retrieved May 14, 2015. Anvilicious: Happens in universe like the novel with Rainer's elaborate lecture to scare the students into realizing what was happening to them. a b c d Dennis Gansel im Gespräch mit den Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 10. März 2008, S. 12: „Widerstandsbiografien entstehen aus Zufällen“

Now, keeping that in mind and knowing that "Die Welle" was forced in book form upon generations of German students, what can we say about the movie? To me, the movie simply doesn't work as a film. Once you have recognized the point (immediately, if you know the book), the movie becomes too obvious in its pedagogical agenda, the characters act way too stereotypically, the whole thing basically becomes incredible. the only things that work are the sidelines (Tim, who finds a sense in his live when everybody is made equal, the slight drama of jealousy), and, in fact, the ending. These are the only things that are not completely predictable, and that do not tend to point a finger at the audience, trying to teach them. Die Welle (The Wave) is truly a brilliant tale that lures viewers into its cleverly developed plot just as Herr Wenger lures his unsuspecting students into a sense of fascism. When Wenger, an affable schoolteacher who seems to be rebellious towards traditional instruction, gets selected to teach a class on autocracy, he is upset. However, he soon devises a plan with which to teach the students a valuable lesson on the sheer dangers of fascism and the ease with which one can be lured into it. What is frightening is that many (though not all) of them voluntarily follow the conformity through reasoning. Ironically, the mob mentality engulfing the students is what they condemn formerly; even the "anarchist" Rainer finds himself intoxicated with his increasingly idolised status. A girl can never have too much chocolate, and a guy who gets a girl chocolate obviously knows the way to her heart. 🍫 In 1967, Ron Jones, a teacher at a high school in Palo Alto, California, devised a "social experiment" among his students which he called "The Third Wave"; the idea was to show how easily support for a quasi-fascist ideology could spread. This experiment inspired the book "The Wave" by Morton Rhue, and this in turn served as the basis for this film, which transfers the action from America in the 1960s to modern Germany.In my opinion, the most realistic opposer would be an outsider who remains an outsider just because he feels unwell in groups. But this guy would be hard to identify with. Schließlich ist zu sehen, wie er im Polizeiwagen sitzt und ungläubig erkennt, welches Ausmaß sein Experiment angenommen hat. Where you lied about your age to get on and frequently rearranged your "top friends" lists accordingly. 14. Abercrombie models Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister, has been granted emergency powers during the global health crisis, making him the world’s newest dictator.