Mercedes Is Not Happy That Its Car Was Used to Kill Hitler

meine Entschuldigung gnädige Frau. Maria voss hiss Grandmother! :smack:

Klara ist die Mutter! :wink:

And (debatably) inappropriate content aside, they did a very nice job. These kids have a bright future in film, seems to me.

The child was an actor and didn’t really die.

Ich bin kein Frau.

Entschuldigung, keine Frau.

Shades of Mel Brooks. Brake time for Hitler and Germany…

Also shades of another German car ad.

Maybe folks would be less uptight about it if they’d shown the car killing him as a young adult art student. Also, they could have shown him being a dick to someone right before he got hit.

I don’t know if its being ‘uptight’ to consider an ad showing a child being run over to be at least questionable. Not sure what to think about the video to be honest.

I thought it was funny and creative. But then again, I have a sense of humor.

That poor child. He did Nazi it coming!

OK, for the sake of argument: what if the driver, instead of hitting juvenile Hitler with the car, lures him into it with pastries (for which the dictator had a notorious weakness), then, depicted in sickening graphic detail, sexually assaults and murders him (with his face flashing into the adult Hitler, as in the OP’s ad as well as the AIDS awareness ad (NSFW) from a few years ago)?

Talk about your crimes against humanity…

That probably wouldn’t be nearly as funny.

Unless they had a slide whistle during the rape scene. Is there a slide whistle during the rape scene?

Okay, that made me grin, as did the video.

Mea Culpa.

My fact-checking module is corrupted this week.

It isn’t an ad.

It’s a piece by a film student, who wonders about the questions: what if those motion sensors in cars were even more intelligent? They seem to have foresight, what if they had even more foresight? What if you take the idea of “recognising danger before it occurs” even further?

He isn’t saying: “awesome, kill teh evil childrunz!”

He posits a controversial situation in an attractive form, we walk away discussing it. That’s art. The whole bloody point.

Well I stand corrected on it not being an actual ad but then its just another example of people confusing ‘controversial’ with being ‘clever’, which is pretty much the epitome of modern art so I guess they’ve done something right.

But your snark is appreciated.

Considering we never seem to actually see anyone driving, are we sure the car wasn’t just trying a more roundabout way of eliminating Sarah Conner?

The only “confusion” seems to be on your end. You don’t understand it, so it must be bad.

Got it.

And I’m ignoring it.