Analysis Of The Film Triumph Of The Will Directed By Leni Riefenstahl

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The film “Triumph of the Will”, Directed by Leni Riefenstahl, gave an generalized idea of what the Nazi party is all about, or at least an idea of what Riefenstahl wants people to think what the Nazi party is about. Riefenstahl integrated various elements in her film to show what the Nazi party is representing in a propagandist way. Riefenstahl does this by integrating selected clips from events she filmed, and then constructs her film to get a positive one-sided view of what the Nazi party is trying to represent in order to make the Nazi Party look appealing to its audience.
Riefenstahl integrates positively bias clips into her work, which all contain the element of an underlying recurring positive theme throughout her film “Triumph of the …show more content…

Fifth pages into the selection “Victory of the Faith”, Riefenstahl stated, “During my work I never thought of propaganda for even an instant.” (Riefenstahl 148). In this statement Riefenstahl claims she did not think of propaganda when directing her film. Here in this statement by Riefenstahl, you can detect that she’s feeding the readers false information. As seen earlier in this excerpt Victory of Faith, Riefenstahl quoted “ ’Didn’t the Propaganda Ministry inform you that I want you to make a film about the Party-rally in Nuremberg?’ ” Here in this quotation it can be seen that Riefenstahl had had a direct conversation with Hitler, which confirms Hitler’s discussion with Riefenstahl, that she is developing this film for the “Propaganda” Ministry. In the name of the federal department that she was producing the film for, lies the key essential word, (which is propaganda) that contradicts her statement that she constructed about not bearing a thought of propaganda when directing her film. This conversation between Hitler, and Riefenstahl serves as evidence that contradicts and break apart the statement in which she constructed in order to defend herself from involvement in creating propaganda-based films for the

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