Die Welle, The Wave [Region All, NTSC]

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a b c d e Christoph Cadenbach: Wie Schüler sich freudestrahlend in Faschisten verwandeln In: Spiegel Online, 10. März 2008

It is easy to worry and focus on the things going wrong rather than the things going right. When we worry, we are draining ourselves, leaving us tired and weary. And that is exactly what the devil wants. He whispers in our ears all the negative aspects of a day, which can easily lead to anxiety and worry. Be strong and try to focus on the positive things. It’s better to focus on at least one positive thought amongst a thousand negative ones instead of focusing wholly on the negative. His class starts out simple and nonthreatening. The students choose Wenger as their leader and are instructed to wear a uniform and create a name for themselves (the students choose Die Welle "The Wave"). But, this club slowly turns into a sort of fascist regime. The unsuspecting students think they are participating in some sort of fun club, but they are really being shown how easily impressionable people can be attracted by autocracy.

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So, the narrative of the past does not work anymore. Gansel’s exploration of an extreme political experiment, paired with a surge of far-right support across Europe and beyond, refutes our misguided belief that we are living in an ‘enlightened’ society. Dennis Gansel im Gespräch mit Der Standard, 11. Februar 2008, S. 28: Faschismus ist für alle anziehend Schließlich ist zu sehen, wie er im Polizeiwagen sitzt und ungläubig erkennt, welches Ausmaß sein Experiment angenommen hat. Since the film-makers didn't bother explaining why "Die Welle" was fundamentally different from any other High School clique, the entire movie becomes a shiny, empty waste of time. Jones, Ron (1972). "The Third Wave". Archived from the original on 24 February 2005 . Retrieved 3 December 2016. , and Jones, Ron (1976). "The Third Wave". The Wave Home. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015 . Retrieved 3 December 2016.

The project was adapted into an American film, The Wave, in 1981, and a critically acclaimed German film, Die Welle, in 2008. Yet, the free and easy Rainer Wenger, who would have much rather taught the ‘anarchy’ class, seems to think otherwise. Whilst such a possibility would and should seem anything but trivial to the average German, Rainer is not so convinced by his country’s apparent immunity to right-wing populism.

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The writing, the acting and direction are excellent. Jürgen Vogel as the class teacher is both entertaining and thoughtful in his role, but the cast in general is exceptional especially as in the main they are mostly teenagers.

Die Welle ( The Wave) is the 2008 German remake of The Wave (1981), the fictional version of Ron Jones' 'Third Wave' experiment, directed by Dennis Gansel and relocating the events to a school in present day Germany. The film takes the basic premise and reworks the characters to fit with the German setting and changes the ending to become more dramatic, but remains a disturbingly realistic take on how History Repeats. Playing Hard to Get: After they had an argument, Karo tries to call Marco. Lisa is present and advises Marco to play hard to get and not answer. Cue Karo lying on her bed crying.a b c Christa Hanetseder: Lehrer gegen Vorurteile. Zwei Experimente mit unerwarteter Dynamik In: ph akzente Nr.4/2008, S. 16 Heroic BSoD: Wenger, after the shooting and Tim's suicide. He spends the whole couple of minutes up to the fade to credits with a Thousand-Yard Stare. The experiment had now taken on a life of its own. Students from across the school joined in. Class expanded from its initial 30 students to a total of 43. Jones added "Strength Through Action" to the chalkboard. Students were issued a member card. Jones instructed the students on how to initiate new members. By the end of the day the movement had over 200 participants. [9] Jones instructed three students to report to him when other members of the movement failed to abide by the rules. He was surprised when around twenty of the students made such reports. [9] A student who expressed concern for Jones's safety volunteered to become his bodyguard. [9] Fourth day [ edit ] The Wave" is the negative side of populism. I say that because the Wave, meaning the organization they formed, could easily have been something good. Mr. Wenger had his students doing very constructive and positive stuff. Who doesn't believe that there's strength in unity, who doesn't believe in equality, who doesn't believe in helping their fellow man? Plenty of organizations, religions, and movements purport similar beliefs and they are viewed as being good. It's when people use these goodly aims to form radical armies bent on purging, "cleansing," or otherwise harming those who don't think like them, that makes a movement into a gang. And if the movement is large enough to engulf an entire nation it becomes an autocracy.

Foreign Remake: Towards the original film and book The Wave (1981). Set in the country whose history was the original's inspiration, no less. Anyway, if you want to see an entertaining movie about group pressure getting out of hands and going terribly astray - watch "Das Experiment" - now that's what I call a movie! The big gripe I have with this movie is that it chooses the wrong girl as the heroine. Each of the students is a symbol for a certain type of students. Gansel avoids turning them into clichés, but they are symbols nonetheless. Most of the kids go for the movement, there are mainly 2 girls who don't. I don't have a problem with the first one, the smaller role. She is the typical hippieesque do-gooder who is almost fascistic herself in the way she is trying to get her own point across and thus creates an interesting and realistic persona. She values the individual, but by listening to her you get the feeling that she herself does not respect people who don't share her opinion.Catsoulis,Jeannette(2011-05-26). «The Siren Song of Groupthink»(στα αγγλικά). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/movies/the-wave-review.html .Ανακτήθηκε στις 2023-06-05. While the 2008 movie "Die Welle" certainly was entertaining and enjoyable, then it wasn't really as impactful as the 1981 movie "The Wave". The basic story is that of a school teacher (an anarchist at heart) who has to teach a class about "Autocracy". Failing to get their attention, he decides to create an experiment whereby they are to create their own mini autocracy and rules amongst themselves (named "The Wave"). With such a controversial subject, the whole thing gets out of hand with the pupils succumbing to the autocratic fascist methodology with grave consequences. Similar to his 2004 film "Before the Fall" which concerns the Nazi's seduction of youth, Dennis Gansel probes the individual psychologies that bring about uncontrollable collective movement, and how personal life is transformed by it. It offers a balanced view on an organisation like "The Wave" by enquiring whether it is a crystallisation of the students' class-free utopia (at the cost of losing individuality) or a community for those in need of belonging and empowerment. When a young teacher, Reiner Wenger, decides to teach his students in autocracy, his experiment was to make his somewhat apathetic class to get more involved in a cause and to learn from previous mistakes. He probably did not imagine how things would get out of hand. At first, Mr. Wenger gives the students a basic outline in what an autocratic society is like. Little by little, the students are swayed into doing things according to the principles the teacher has planned for them, and ultimately, they go completely berserk by wanting to adopt ideas that are exactly a challenge for a democratic society. Wenger is caught by surprise about what he had created with the students. He begins to realize how far he has gone, as he appears to be leading them into a fascist society that sets apart from the rest of the other high school students.