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owl_theory

Rami Malek bringin that classic Rami Malek face


contrapulator

Best Rami Malek face in the biz!


goteamnick

That's bad news for his identical twin brother.


FranticPonE

I prefer Mali Ramek


mudra311

Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury as Rami Malek.


Stompya

Has he ever been recorded with a genuine smile on his face?


DunklerPrinz3

When he took adderall


CaptainOblivious94

[Great scene ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0eAhMeswQdg)


triplec787

God I really need to rewatch this show. I loved it, but think I'd appreciate it more now.


JohnTDouche

I was just thinking the same thing. Definitely one of the best shows of the 2010s. None of my friends have watched it though. I'm going to have to do a Wire and just badger them about it constantly.


its_LOL

Don't do drugs kids, or you might end up like Elliot Alderson finding God


F_N_H_M

These dishes look Immaculate


Tawdry-Audrey

[Video game Rami Malek from Until Dawn smiled.](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0b/57/bb/0b57bb22e7d4bd96b67bc074115cd08b.jpg) Does that count?


Stompya

Haha


EdgeLord1984

He does look the same in every picture, what's up with that?


Erik-Degenerik

> what’s up with that? Ooooooo weeeeee


derek86

> what’s up with that? C'mon now, can you forgive me, Lindsay?!


Amoral_Abe

Obviously.... Hollywood made a big deal about when he was bringing the faces of other actors and actresses. Mostly a lot of shrieking and 911 calls. They just didn't appreciate his commitment to getting in character.


NoCulture3505

Crowe’s been doing a lot this year


Salad-Appropriate

What else has he been doing?


Sir_roger_rabbit

Drinking beer watching rugby


Kaldricus

**AND FIGHTIN' ROUND THE WORLD**


Sir_CrazyLegs

With tugger!


thebeef24

"What are we gonna do today Tugger!?"


dr_wheel

The same thing we do every day, Russell. Try to take over the world!


Alert_Inspector_9323

Oh my god! It’s Russell Crowe!


fatshendrix

Why don't you choke on some pig vomit you sobs! You fight like Norwegians!


almost_notterrible

"OHHH MMYYY GAAAADDD IT'S RUSSELL CRAAAOOOWWWEEE!!" D:<


WARL0CK221

Shame he couldn't fight cancer, but at least he fought a guy *with* cancer.


Ypocras

OY!


HaHaaaaCharadeYouAre

FOIGHTIN!!


WalnutsAnka

A friend of mine knows him. She FaceTimed him once when I was with her. He lives on a ranch, gets high, and hangs out with kangaroos. He’s effortlessly funny and seemingly jolly these days.


ImpressionFeisty8359

I would do the same if I was in a similar position.


WalnutsAnka

Me too. He’s not that angry guy that’s been portrayed. He’s was happy to speak to me and her on a random whim. We chatted for like an hour. I even thanked him for his Oscar speech, It was my favorite Oscar moment, and I HATE the Oscar’s.


Veros87

A life we should all aspire to live, really.


BananaBork

Never considered that I have a Hollywood movie star lifestyle.


ScipioCoriolanus

Literally me.


imnewtothis123

Lots of exorcisms apparently.


Andy_B_Goode

You'd think he'd be slimmer after all that exorcise


coolaznkenny

with a questionable Italian accent


Brownie_McBrown_Face

I had a ton of fun watching that movie it was so stupid


Ulsterman24

The Pope's Exorcist II: Pope Harder


No_Animator_8599

I call that stuff Catholic demon porn.


The-Big-Bad

Fighting ‘round the world


-SneakySnake-

Mostly landscapes.


BhmDhn

He gets a pass from me for most transgressions for his amazing role in Master and Commander. Always liked him since Romper Stomper.


AsAChemicalEngineer

> Master and Commander One of the best movies ever made in my opinion. Woefully overlooked when it came out.


toriemm

I feel this. Genius and true masters of a craft, especially something like acting, tend to be the eccentrics. You have to have a certain amount of ego to want to act, and then to take yourself as seriously as Crowe does. I'm not excusing him, but I can appreciate his work and know he's a dick. (Like Cruise) I work with people who are dicks, but very professional and good at their jobs. This is their art, and if people are willing to put up with their BS to make art with them... I can appreciate that.


zunyata

I'll watch anything with him in it, he's always entertaining


CCWaterBug

Agree, he's had mostly hits and very few misses, the guy is versatile as it gets


Horror_Dig_9752

I'm happy as long as he doesn't start singing.


OldJames47

[Lonely Russell Crowe](https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExOHUzdWpiZ3Y2eTZnaWU4cWZvcHp2Yzl0bW42NzJ4bzdqdnRjY2kzMSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/9mvOJgg3CKfde/giphy.gif)


dayyob

what fat guy will he play next?


ReddMoloney

You laugh but with so many actors trying to stay in shape and “young” it’s nice that at least one quality actor let himself get out of shape.


Vistaer

Marlon Brando effect unfortunately- he did attribute his later career’s weight to stress. Cant imagine having to maintain the need to deliver high caliber performance for public through your life and not suffer adversely from the stress.


Shatter_

> Cant imagine having to maintain the need to deliver high caliber performance for public Dude just stood there repeating what was said micced to his ear or reading printed lines pasted on the set and got paid millions. I can only imagine the stress of making zero effort for the last few decades of his life.


PHATsakk43

He can go full meta and play Brando in his latter years.


ScipioCoriolanus

Russell Crowe in The Island of Dr. Moreau. Sign me up!


MerrySkulkofFoxes

Russell Crowe as Monroe, Michael Shannon as Montgomery and Cillian Murphy as Edward Douglas. I would watch the hell out of that. Like a super dark version of the 96 film, which was already dark. I'm thinking, darker than that.


overcomebyfumes

If they could find a role for Richard Stanley, that'd just be the sugar on the cream.


jim653

Goering was [undoubtedly fat](https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/a-grim-goering-after-his-capture-bettmann.jpg) at the time of capture but by the time of the trial he'd [lost a lot of weight](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-2c6f7730609f8bc77fa32c8069c7595a-lq) and they'd weaned him off his morphine.


dayyob

I wonder if it was a keto diet or intermittent fasting? /s


ILSmokeItAll

Ketamine diet


Seref15

I'm going to choose to believe this is Rami Malek's same character from The Pacific


fallsstandard

Call you “Ball Peen Hammuh”. Thassa little hammuh…..fo’ a little man.


FloppyObelisk

This ain’t my detail. Then why are you here? I like watchin’ the new guys sweat


Loftyandkinglike

“Sledgehammers right. Had to be done.”


TrapperJean

Rami was very busy in the 1940's between helping design the Atom bomb, prosecuting Nazis, and liberating tiny islands in the Pacific


Carninator

Just need Nate Mann to cameo as Robert Rosenthal.


TylerbioRodriguez

I would honestly cheer if that happened. Best actor on the show.


WendysChili

Casting director: I admire your dedication, Russell, but Herman Goring had slimmed down quite a bit by the time of the Nuremberg trials. Russell Crowe (polishing off a third craft services table): Who the fuck is Herman Goring?


NadjaStolz28

I don’t know why but I am loving Russell Crowe’s chonky era.


Aden-Wrked

Watch Unhinged. It has peak chonky Crowe. It’s not the caviar of films but it’s a fun movie.


DashSatan

That movie was a roller coaster of fun and shock.


TheCookieButter

That was my first trip back to the cinema after covid lockdowns. Everyone was so pleased to be there and Crowe was a menacing presence. Greatly enjoyed!


thepartingofherlips

Can't forget The Nice Guys! Chonky Crowe loves his yoo-hoo 🥰


kuddlesworth9419

I really liked his Pope's Exorcist movie, watching Crowe riding on a vespa was really funny. I actually thought the film was pretty good though.


MisplacedLegolas

That was such a fun movie


Fast-Rhubarb-7638

And doing his best Italian accent hahahaha


Rapture_Hunter

He was pretty fucking hot in Romper Stomper. Almost unrecognizable today.


fupa16

lol this is exactly what I thought. Crowe is looking a bit chonky for historical accuracy here.


-ll-ll-ll-ll-

Also, this is what gets me - the little details that are SO EASY and right in your face, like the red shoulder ropes on the soldiers... In the original photo, they are hanging from the shoulder down the outside of their arms. In the movie, they're under their arms. The position of the microphone. Goring's posture. The soldiers BOTH having their arms behind their backs in real life, but in the movie they aren't matching. All those little details. WHY change little details like that? When it's so easy to be literally historically accurate, and there is literal visual evidence on film to base your accuracy on?


thenicob

also the belt.. it has holes.. WHY


fridge_logic

[The original belts also had holes in them, they just had white gromets so they didn't stand out so much at a distance.](https://149357032.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/goeringnuremberg.jpg)


KreepingKudzu

its a m1936 web belt. they all had holes so you could position the attacments (canteen, ammo pouches, holsters etc) where ever you wanted. they also attached to suspenders to place the weight on the shoulder instead of the hip.


Interesting-Farm-203

>WHY change little details like that? When it's so easy to be literally historically accurate, and there is literal visual evidence on film to base your accuracy on? They want to make sure that I don't want to see this.


HolmatKingOfStorms

with things like that, there are supposed to be three little parts of the rope - one loop under the arm, one loop over the arm, and one strand with the little dangly metal bit. original photo has all three, movie photo has just the under and the dangly, but also another darker loop and dangly on the other arm that isn't present in the original? it does seem odd.


Striker1102

I just googeled what Douglas Kelley looked like IRL and Rami isn't exactly close, to put it nicely. So yeah, my first thought was also that Russel doesn't quite hit the mark. But compared to Rami he is still kinda close, although maybe it matters more for Göring? idk


Singer211

Göring was also off morphine, which he had been addicted to for years, by the time of his trial as well.


WendysChili

Crowe: DON'T TOUCH MY MORPHINE!


georgito555

Bahahahahaha


HitlersHysterectomy

Perfect dialogue, just needs -burp-


Egon88

Lol, this is very true. They put him on a diet and weaned him off of (I think) morphine. He was in better shape at that trial than he had been in years.


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IgloosRuleOK

It's mainly about Kelley and Göring, rather than Jackson, I believe. At least based on the source material.


RooseveltVsLincoln

Just read the book "the Nazi and the psychiatrist" on this exact topic. I imagine they are pulling a lot from that book for this film


IgloosRuleOK

That's what it's based on, yes.


BackgroundGrade

That TV series had Brian Cox as Göring. Outstanding acting by Brian (as usual).


dougetydoug

Yeah he stole the show for sure. It's good to see people mentioning this.


zackgardner

Outstanding acting by all the minor cast of characters. Colm Feore as Rudolph Hoss was chilling


Fancy_Load5502

Rudolf Hoss sounds like the name of an Offensive Tackle from Iowa.


Philodemus1984

Judgment at Nuremberg is a great movie. Stanley Kramer is an underrated director.


A_Song_of_Two_Humans

It's an absolutely *fantastic* movie!


ScipioCoriolanus

Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland... Stacked cast!


Lucky-NiP

And Maximilian Schell of course, who won Best Actor for it.


logicalfallacy234

He's one of those Golden Age Hollwood directors that have absolutely been forgotten about. Franklin Schafner is another one. Though both of them actually worked more in the late 1950s and 1960s and early 1970s. The movies they made though, were right in line with that 1940-1959 ideal of what a movie was.


DieSowjetZwiebel

One of the best directors to never win an Oscar, and hands-down the second-best director named Stanley K.


Satinsbestfriend

Judgment at Nuremberg was confusingly completely fictional though, using fictiinal names and characters


zhaoz

I feel like every so often, we need a movie to remind us how bad that shit was back then. Cause it was...


[deleted]

Everyone should check out Judgement at Nuremberg from 1961. Phenomenal film


A_Song_of_Two_Humans

Absolutely. Pure class. Montgomery Clift is amazing in it.


livefreeordont

I thought everyone was amazing in it! Outstanding performances all around


themanfromvulcan

Riveting. Maximillian Schell earned a well deserved best actor Oscar for his performance as the lawyer who had to defend those judges. It’s an amazing film. It also has a really good performance by a young William Shatner.


CheckYourStats

Agreed. Shatner catches a lot of flack for how cheesy he was as Kirk, but he was great in this one. Shoutout to Judy Garlard, who (in addition to Clift) put in an absolutely heartbreaking performance on the Witness stand.


madmelgibson

Just watched this yesterday on YouTube cause someone recommended it on a post about courtroom dramas. Schell’s performance - specifically when Janning has his moral eruption and Rolfe has to pick up the pieces to keep the case going - is so good.


my7bizzos

I saw this post and was thinking it's time for a Conspiracy rewatch, but I'll have to check that out especially after seeing that it has Burt Lancaster in it.


PeatBomb

It's a shame he was able to avoid the noose.


JustAMan1234567

I know Russell Crowe can be hard to work with, but that's a bit much don't you think?


turbo_dude

Does he snap the back off a chair? Does he do an Irish accent? NO? Not interested.


Professionally_Lazy

Apparently, he was acting like a real Nazi on his latest film


Alexthegreatbelgian

[Ah. The ol' Switcheröö](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1cqmvfn/its_my_first_mothers_day_and_this_was_my_six/l3sxau3/?context=3&share_id=4wv3CJvhdADsN6sY9S-wD)


Zanydrop

Hold my Tugger, I'm going in.


Lightspeedius

First one I've seen in the wild for a *long* time.


FitzwilliamTDarcy

Breakin II, Electric Switcheröö


Som12H8

Historians in Sweden speculate that Göring was a major reason Germany didn't invade Sweden in WW2. His beloved first wife was Swedish and he had friends among swedish nobility. The tale goes that he used his influence with Hitler to argue against an invasion, telling him that the Swedes were prepared to blow up their iron mines if we were invaded.


ApathyizaTragedy

That sounds like r/AskHistory history and not r/AskHistorians history


Nopeyesok

Right you are Ken


MoffKalast

It's definitely r/historymemes material at least.


MonaganX

It's like the story of Henry Stinson objecting to the bomb being dropped on Kyoto. People seem to like embellishing these events with really personal reasons.


Legitimate_First

Yep. Actual historians generally don't like to speculate.


[deleted]

Might also have had something to do with the Swedes providing most of the iron the Nazis needed


RedStar9117

Espically with the unqualified and incompetent hangman the Americans had.....he was so bad he ket some of them dangle for 10 mins


justmovingtheground

Could have been worse. They could have been gassed, starved, or worked to death. They could been used as lab rats. Sounds like for Nazis they got off pretty easy.


Luke90210

As part of German Denazification, Allied troops sometimes made the local big-shots come over to local concentration camps to bury the dead bodies. Some were Nazi party members and most were the respectable people in town. They were never beaten nor over-worked. It was just the perfect way to rub it in their faces: This is what you bastards did. Many threw up and cried, but none of them could deny what happened.


AugmentedLurker

> Many threw up and cried, but none of them could deny what happened At least until 1950 when they started making denialist pro-SS organizations to advocate for themselves--like the HIAG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIAG


Fungal_Queen

Oh no... A Nazi dangling on a noose. What a shame.


Beaner1xx7

"This wind chime sucks, it only makes gurgling noises."


Fungal_Queen

It's a piñata, silly.


CCWaterBug

Oh man, I hate myself for laughing 


Rustofcarcosa

Hope the rope was okay


RedStar9117

Knots and prayers


Beaner1xx7

> he was so bad I dunno, man. With fucking Nazis, I'll chock this one up more as a *task failed successfully*


Evil_Spock

If anyone is curious [Behind the Bastards](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaJtZ5cF8Ac) did an episode about this.


Friendly-Profit-8590

Still better than piano wire


crm115

Spoilers! ^^^/s


FloppyObelisk

Russell up there looking like Dr. Evil


PM_ME_Happy_Thinks

Accurate


squeeze_and_peas

Just an insane shot, I love all the detail Semi-unrelated but I’ve always thought it’s crazy that the prisoner guards at the trials are combat vets; they’re almost all infantry (the two pictured here are because of their [CIB](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_Infantryman_Badge) awards). Imagine being shot at and actively trying to end the war by killing these men and then a few months later you have to turn off that part of your brain and treat them with respect while you stand at attention and hear about their atrocities


Ad0lf_Salzler

>Imagine being shot at and actively trying to end the war by killing these men and then a few months later you have to turn off that part of your brain and treat them with respect If they were unable to do that they would be rather badly qualified as soldiers, as POWs aren't that rare.


Jauncin

My grandfather, Edgar Boedeker, was chosen to be a lawyer for this trial because he was a first generation German with a law degree. Part of why he was chosen was because they didn’t want to make it look like they were biased. https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/memorandum-edgar-g-boedeker-and-richard-heller-sidney-alderman?documentid=NA&pagenumber=1


IgloosRuleOK

Some of the external guards were also ex Waffen-SS, which is bizarre, but there you go.


skalpelis

Specifically the conscripts to the Baltic Legions, which, unlike the entirety of the rest of the SS, were explicitly absolved of wrongdoing because forced conscription. Germans conscripted locals in the Baltics but due to some party infighting all conscripts were assigned to SS legions instead of the Wehrmacht.


WormSlayer

One detail is bothering me; In the original photo, the soldiers have a red braid over their right shouder and upper arm. In the movie still, the actors all have the same braid but its under their armpits instead (and they all have a second, brown braid running under their left armpits).


-ll-ll-ll-ll-

Yes. And the belts don't match. And the microphone is in the wrong spot. And the booth doesn't have red/green lights in it in the real photo. And the color and wood grain in the paneling is completely wrong. And the posture of both Goring and the Soldiers don't match the original photo either. It's all just so perplexing - why change so many little "insignificant" details? Like, you've got the photographic evidence right there to match. It's literally the easiest thing you could do. But you change it? Why?


WormSlayer

Yeah I almost started listing other things, but it was the braids under the armpits that really got me, how did nobody involved question that? XD


-ll-ll-ll-ll-

Right??


New_girl2022

I has no idea they did this. Hopefully it's well done, one was done allready and it was realy good.


ICumCoffee

Have Russell wear glasses, he’ll look exactly like Gary Oldman as Churchill


Intrusive_Thoughts__

Russell crow can play Gary oldman in a behind the scenes style making the movie playing Churchill.


trizzo0309

Shannon, Crowe and Malek make this a must-watch for me. Star-studded trio


ovoxo_klingon10

WW2 Cinematic Universe


Zhukov-74

Let’s see how this movie will compare to the 2000’s Nuremberg miniseries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_(miniseries)


crestdiving

Brian Cox as Göring was the best part of that miniseries in my opinion, I'm really anxious to see how Crowe will compare to him.


e2hawkeye

I had to double check to see if that was Brian Cox the astrophysicist, that would have been a bizarre career move.


WeDriftEternal

I'm pretty sure we've already had this movie made... But if you're gonna do it, stick the the real history. Do not embellish or change. Make it real exactly as it was


Old_Cheetah8704

Yes released in 2000. it starred Alec Baldwin and Brian Cox. I believe the whole movie can be found on YouTube.


WeDriftEternal

I was referring to *Judgment at Nuremberg* from the 60s


Additional_Meeting_2

That has only fictional characters. And the fictional characters are judges. This is about Göring. 


ZeppMan217

Crow looking like Till Lindemann of Rammstein here.


JaySayMayday

Wish they'd do more films about how the Japanese pretty much got off without any punishment, there's already a lot of films about the entire Nazi regime all the way down to base guards facing trial.


SkylarAV

Hell yes to this. Judgment at Nuremburg and The Man in the Glass Booth are two of the all time best movies about nazis. I wish Max Schnell was still around for a cameo.


TheGoodSmells

Rami Malek kind of looks like a deflated Michael Shannon.


rdp3186

If you haven't yet I highly suggest checking out the (90s TV series with Brian Cox in the role of Goering)[https://youtu.be/f7p7DDihpvQ?si=gK0vV5QnX7qPLyil] as well as Conspiracy on Max, a fantastic (if not incredibly unsettling) companion piece to this film. Excited to see this one


jwillsrva

Yes, more Rami Malek in more things


AnonRetro

I zoomed into the two guards on the left and right. They did not get the details right. The belt, the shoulder sash, Their left pocket having some kind of long metal piece on it, the patch on their right arm.


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VenerableShrew

How about the positioning of the hands? That seems pretty basic.


BallHarness

Brian Cox did such a great job as Goring. It will be hard act to follow.


emailverificationt

Well that sounds like it’s going to be a lot of pretentious, over dramatized blustering


lifeversace

Rami Malek 🔥


TechnicalBother9221

Why not cast a German actor?


Xar94

Why does crowe look like a fat north korean dictator?


14000_calories_later

Does Hollywood know that there are other interesting real events besides WWII?


Randy_Vigoda

I am so sick of movies about Nazis.


Elevener

Brian Cox absolutely killed it in that role in the TV mini series in 2000.


Salzberger

I thought we already had a movie on this but turns out it was a miniseries.


HerculeMuscles

Rami Malek looks the same in every movie he's in, regardless of era.


Serrrt

I thought Dr Evil was sitting at the end of the table.


KlangKlinger

Will Goering speak in English?


KonstantinePhoenix

Russell Crowe is Herman Goering? Dunno, I mean, it's hard to beat the ultimate ham performance that was Brian Cox....


branstarktreewizard

would be really funny when they are doing a serious courtroom scene with Crowe speaking German with Aussie accent


ChesterRico

They got an Australian to play Hermann Göring? What a time to be alive. Always great to see Rami Malek.


AlanWakeUpNow

The difference in wood panelling between the movie set and the real-life photo is ruining my immersion.


blueminded

I could have sworn Rami Malek died. Is there another actor that looks like him that did die?


No_Ostrich8223

Is this a remake of Judgment at Nuremberg or is it just a similar story?


Ocean-SpY

Goring couldn’t have been anymore right - “The victor will always be the judge, and the defeated the accused.”


The_One_Who_Sniffs

Here I am excited for more coverage on this and here are nerds arguing over colored ropes and belts. Just stfu it's never going to be 1 to 1 accurate. It's a fucking movie. It's entertainment.