While I loved the video, the enactment, I also looked into the connotative meanings that I was getting out of the video. What was also interesting is the curiosity, whether the speech (I do not understand any German) actually corresponds to the texts that is written in the sub-title.
This could be a clip from an old Hitler Movie, or enacted directly with the script for this camera release.
Within this act he also takes a shot at he current economy and the state of the current surviving cameras. His dialogue on “No need to change systems” is so suportive of the loyalty with the Brand. Having that loyalty with a person of this stature meant a lot. So when the person gets furious, it is a harbinger to the times to come in reality. In the photographic fraternity, some critics mention that perhaps the D3X would go down in history as Nikon’s biggest failure.
With the change in the tone of the protagonist, after knowing that Nikon has announced a camera that is just double the megapixles and way exorbitantly priced, it appears as if the act is postmodern. The whole sequence of shot here signifying that the public is not to be taken for granted and Nikon cannot do such a thing based on loyalty and the support it has enjoyed from its supporters so far.
I think this clip is a great example to understanding of almost all that we have learnt in this class this semester.
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December 11, 2008 at 1:37 am
rajasee17
hilarious clip!!! thanks for posting K!
today me n kshitiz were having a discussion regarding jeff’s paper. he asked me is phenomenology same as epistemology? i said no.
now that i saw this clip, i think is a good example to illlustrate why I THINK they are not the same.
Kshitiz is a person who does not speak or understand german and hasn’t watched the movie Der Untergang (the downfall). I am a person who understands german and has seen the movie as well.
So our epistemological understanding of this video clip could be similar however our phenomenological understanding would be largely different since german language and the movie experience is a part of MY lifeworld which Kshitiz ’s lifeworld does not encompass. Hence the experiential qualities of watching this clip will vary greatly.
thoughts?
its my judgment.. i cud be errrrrrrrrrr…. wrong
December 11, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Kshitiz
Thanks for that gyan Rajasee.
I found out that this clip is also used for other commentaries.
And needless to say, those were hilarious as well!
Now I would love to see the original movie and see the actual conversation that is being had here.
Oh and btw, my exact question was that whether Phenomenology was a kind of Epistemology (and not the same as Epistemology as mentioned earlier) .
From what I understand, Epistemology is the ways of understanding things.
Phenomenology is one of those ways of understanding things. The interesting thing about it however is that it does not stop at things and also expands to experiences primarily. Similarly, And Structuralism would be another way of understanding those things (which themselves are defined in an ontological manner).
So ya, the epistemological way of knowing about the clip might be the same, and yes, the phenomenological understanding of it would be completely different.
December 18, 2008 at 3:26 am
danoliver
What is interesting about this video is that it has become a meme. Do a search on youtube for “hitler downfall” and you see him complaining about Obama, Hillary, the Xbox, himself, the meme, the real estate bubble and much much more. To use the the semiotic language, the video is a syntagm, what it is subtitled with is the paradigm.
I never really was such big fan of the videos. I speak German, which means that I’m not the addressee for which these videos are made. I need to mute the sound else I hear what is actually being said, and so that takes away from the experience. However when I mute it, then I don’t hear the vocal intonations, which also takes away from the experience.
These videos are also interesting from a postmodern perspective. It takes Hitler, which society as large has deemed as basically being a soulless and evil and via the videos makes him a superficial and depthless character only concerned about modern trivialities.