[ SECRET POST #3147 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3147 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/Vkry3d5.png?1

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I've definitely done that. It's a fun little mental game.

[(Anonymous)]

Why would you watch Schindler's List with people during WWI?

[(Anonymous)]

It was an interesting thought experiment since WWI was supposed to be The War to End All Wars and yet World War II was so much in many respects. What would the reaction be, I wonder?

[(Anonymous)]

Saving Private Ryan would probably be a better use of that. Schindler's List doesn't really have all that much of the war in it.

[(Anonymous)]

Assumption that it's incredibly depressing speculative fiction, I'd imagine.

[(Anonymous)]

I think person asking was because Schindler's List took place during WWII, not WWI. So it would be the wrong war. There were no Nazis during WWI.

[(Anonymous)]

"Everything you're seeing is a dramatization of REAL EVENTS that will take place in about 18 years, which can be traced to an Austrian corporal named Adolf Hitler. He presently lives in Munich. I would suggest everyone here go murder the shit out of him."

[(Anonymous)]

Given that antisemitism was rife in the US and Europe at the time. And that Eugenics was a movement that was gaining popularity... would something equally as horrific happened anyway? Horrible thought. :(

So yeah, Schindler's list would be a good thing to show. Here's what's going to happen guys - go and arrest that effing psycho. Oh and incidentally, drop the Eugenics and anti-semitic shit.

[(Anonymous)]

My feeling is that something shitty and fascist would have happened, yeah, but the uniquely horrible chain of events that led to WWII and the Holocaust is actually probabilistically fragile. Hitler was a long-shot dark horse candidate in 1933, and even a slight alteration in voting patterns would have kept him out of office. Even then, absent the Reichstag fire, itself a highly unlikely event, he'd just have been chancellor, not a dictator, and thus not in a position to accomplish as much evil as he did.

Might Germany have had a douchey, anti-Semitic government absent that little Austrian shit? Oh, probably. Would it have led to the deaths of sixty million people? Probably not.

[tree_and_leaf]

I think Hitler would have found some excuse to seize dictatorial powers once he got into the chancellor's role even if the Reichstag fire hadn't happened. I agree with you on the rest of it, though. Hitler had a lot of luck in the late 20s/ early 30s.

[(Anonymous)]

I do something similar. Sometimes I imagine that I'm a filmmaker with movies/shows from the 2000s, etc. but I'm releasing these films in the silent era or any time prior to 1950. I wonder what the audiences would think of the amazing special effects. I wonder what the actors of that era would think to see what happens to the actors in modern movies. If they were introduced to motion capture, etc.

And sometimes when I watch a documentary on something, like let's say gay rights, I'll wonder what the people in the Stonewall Riots would think if they saw something like Korra.

And I also wonder stuff like what would an old show look like with better effects. Or, like if Man from U.N.C.L.E. actually had Illya speaking in Russian more. Stuff like that.

So, you're not alone.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I occasionally wondered how people in the era of Universal or Hammer horror films would've reacted to films of the '80s (there's something rather visceral about the FX of that era).

[(Anonymous)]

I do this ALL THE TIME! Especially with things that have long-established fandoms or are from long-running franchises. How would they react to the latest adaptation/reboot/update/sequel/spin-off/re-imagining? If they were flipping tv channels and happened to come across this, how long would it take them to recognize what it is?

Occasionally, it's hard to stop looking at things this way.

I think I even posted a secret about this a few years ago.

Anyway, this is totally a thing I do and it's fun. I haven't done much like your Schindler's List example, except with regards to sifi and technology and space exploration.

And why...

[(Anonymous)]

...is all that I can think of is Marty McFly pretending to be Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan?
I love your ideas, OP.
Maybe I should get in some time travel and show some people from the 50s the Back to the Future trilogy. Should be fun.

[tabaqui]

HA! Yes. I want to show Peggy (from Mad Men) some of the best, current ads. And introduce Joan to Hillary Clinton (and a few other amazing women, via news and whatnot, of course) *and* have Dawn sit down and watch/read all about President Obama.

It's a fun way to pass the time, sometimes. :)

[(Anonymous)]

I do something very similar. I pretend I'm in the audience that would have seen it initially. So if I watch the Dean Martin Variety Show, I pretend I'm with the audience from 1971.

[(Anonymous)]

I do this almost constantly lol, when I'm really bored I'll start thinking of how I'd explain simple technology (like a toaster for example) to a time traveler too

[(Anonymous)]

I like to imagine taking Gerard Manley Hopkins up in an airplane.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Like trying to explain the Peter Jackson movies to JRR Tolkien.

[(Anonymous)]

Hahaha, it's good to know I'm not the only one doing this. This secret makes me so happy.