Sunday 24 August 2008

Monsters' Favourites

I read somewhere that Hitler's favourite film was "Lives of the Bengal Lancers". He'd watch it over and over. It starred Gary Cooper. But there, Hitler was a great admirer of Britain and the British because, well, hadn't they created a vast empire?
It's not a very good film though it is in a superior category of favourites to one of Stalin's. He was apparently very fond of George Formby films.
Now, if you've ever seen one of Formby's films you'll realise how low Stalin's taste must have been - they are all, without exception, dreadful (though they do have some good songs in them).
Makes you wonder about the great monsters of the last century and their odd taste in films.
Makes me wonder what sort of films Mao Tse Tung liked. Since he had more people killed than the other two put together then probably his taste in films would have been lower even than theirs. My guess is The Three Stooges.

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