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Today's Guest: Bill Plympton, filmmaker, Hitler's Folly, Cheatin
 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Bill Plympton by clicking on the video player above! 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of professional Nazi hunters who don’t know what a ‘mockumentary’ is but suspect it has clues that will satisfy their lives’ work… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

When you start watching Hitler’s Folly, the new film by Academy Award nominee Bill Plympton, the action starts immediately and you can’t help but get pulled in.

And when you get to the end, you’ll probably do what I did – start over from the beginning and watch it again.
BILL PLYMPTON podcast excerpt: "I was reading a newspaper and saw that Hitler was a big fan of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.' I thought that was the most surreal thing I ever heard. Here is the most evil man in history, laughing over the antics of these dwarfs!"
You can LISTEN to this interview with filmmaker BILL PLYMPTON, director of the mockumentary HITLER'S FOLLY, by clicking the audio player above!

Hitler’s Folly is a mockumentary, a fake documentary, if you will, in the spirit of Spinal Tap or, if you want to be era-specific, I suggest H.G. Wells’ infamous radio play, “War of the Worlds.”

In Plympton’s conceit, Adolf Hitler never lost his desire to become an artist – an animator, in fact, in the mode of Walt Disney. For Hitler, the German aggression of the second world war is nothing but an opportunity for him to create his cartoon magnum opus, an animated version of The Ring, featuring his Disney like creation, "Downey Duck."

And those concentration camps? Wait until you learn what their real purpose was!
BILL PLYMPTON podcast excerpt: "I didn't want to pay a lawyer $10,000 to go through the film and pay another $10,000 for rights, so we decided to release 'Hitler's Folly' for free. And if people like it, t

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