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Originally posted by VeiledSarcasm:
A Nazi Punk is an contradiction, punk being a rebellion against government and institutions while Nazism is extreme facism. By having a character that is a Nazi, don't expect your audience to be able to sympathize with him, because unless they themselves are Nazis or some other form of racist white supremecist. The great majority of your viewing audience will likely be offended if you try to represent him as a sympathetic character (I would,even if I weren't half Jewish). I think the story would work much better if you had the contrasting character as a REAL Punk and a Christian Conservative, or something of that nature. The only way to have success with an audience while maintaining a Nazi character would be to either show that he is a complete POS, have the hippie girl show him his error in judgment thereby changing his ways, or show that he doesn't truly feel that way, but has only latched onto Nazism as a way to compensate for a history of low self-esteem/social unacceptance/poor parenting/etcetera which would realate to the previous suggestion. WHy a Nazi anyway? For the shock value or are you a sympathizer?

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Originally posted by RFranco:
why are a nazi and a liberal vegetarian hanging out together anyway? why wouldn't the nazi be like "haha sucks for you being lost, and leave her in the middle of the woods?"

also this kind of movie has been done before, so i suggest you watch examples of this kinds of movies to get ideas.

One is this WW2 movie that recently came out, about a Russian and a Finnish soldier that must live together in a house before they freeze to death. lemme find the name.

Another one is SWEPT AWAY by Lina Wertmuller. It's about a communist servant and a rich aristrocrat stranded on a deserted island together.

there are more. anyway, these movies were made the show the similarities/dissimilarities between people/ideas/culture.

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Originally posted by Forsakenproductions:
For the Nazi, don't just focus on the normal stereotypes such as white supremacy, and all that.

While those are certainly part of it, try to bring into focus more Nazi ideals.

Example: The love of country over love of self. For the good of the common welfare.

All though Hitler's Nazi Party were anti-communist in the war, they had adopted many communistic beliefs. Do some research into it, and you could have a very successful story.

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Originally posted by KingMolson:
If you think that you can't create sympathy or affinity for a character of National Socialist mindset then you clearly haven't seen Downfall. This movie is brilliant, especially because the actor who plays Hitler is so talented. It succeeded in actually makeing me feel for Hitler in his last days during the fall of Berlin. But it didn't glorify him at all either, it showed him as a little, delusional man, gripping onto the last bits of hope or chance for salvation of his dream. You can see the glory of his original dream of an empire devoted to the arts and culture as well as the horrible attrocities he was willing to commit to achieve it. But anyways, the movie was powerful because it actually made Hitler seem human and made him worthy of my pity. The power of movies, or any fiction really, is that you can do anything you want with them. If you succeed in making a character with Nazi beliefs accesible to the audience, you will have done something hard and thus impressive. That being said, to be honest, the structure of your movie seems a little bit cliched. Isn't it really just the strict conservative boy, freedom loving girl, stranded together love story, see daytime television for examples?

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Originally posted by Mathias Will:
First of all: The name of the book is:
"Mein Kampf" not Mein Kumpf. (I don't like to correct people, especially in this case, as a german, but it should be correct.)
In my view the characters are a bit to clear to straight. It might be helpful to watch a documentary about a neonazi, to avoid a cliche:
The film that I like to recommend you is:
"Beruf Neonazi" (proffesion: Neonazi).
Here is a link to a website, where you can get more information about this issue:
http://www.filmportal.de