Line #9 YMMV/TriumphOfTheWill


1	* HarsherInHindsight: It was intended as a propaganda film to show the Germans how great the Nazi regime was, and how TheFutureWillBeBetter. However, since the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII it's difficult to watch this movie without keeping in mind what horrors all this would lead to in the end. That said, the film also has a bit of ForegoneConclusion, as anyone born 1945-onwards knows that the Nazis ultimately failed to accomplish their goals.
2	* HoYay: Not just the shirtless frolicking stormtroopers. Check out the glow in Rudolf Hess' eyes when he introduces Hitler's last speech.
3	** The short segment with the SS ''Leibstandarten Adolf Hitler'' guys holding onto each other's belts in a show of camaraderie.
4	** And just look at the young men's eyes when their Führer speaks.
5	* {{Narm}}: When you're not getting NightmareFuel, some of the sequences can be just plain silly. Specific examples might include the ''Reichsarbeitsdienst'' sequence, with the work-men declaring where they're from. The sequence was reportedly rehearsed 50 times, like many other sequences, but the way the workers announce their birthplaces with super-serious, stoic, robot-like expressions can be unintentionally silly just for that reason.
6	* NightmareFuel: Listen to the crash of the jackboots, the howl of the crowds, the thundering pronunciamentos of the Nazi princes. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Third Reich in all its bloodstained glory.
7	* OnceOriginalNowCommon: This was quite an innovative movie when it was made, and has inspired many a scene (and originated some now fairly standard techniques) since then -- with the result that very little in the movie seems original after decades of people copying things from it.
8	* OneSceneWonder: The incredibly enthusiastic and wide-eyed speaker of the Labor Service. Might be due to a Gag Sub by Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus (viewable on that series' video examples page under the title "My dog's got no nose!").
9	* SequelDisplacement: Riefenstahl made this as a follow-up to ''Victory of Faith'', which chronicled the 1933 Party rally. That movie however was suppressed by the German government after the Night of the Long Knives, for prominently featuring Ernst Röhm and the SA. ''Victory'' remains comparatively obscure, and considered inferior by most who have seen it.
10	** ''Victory of Faith'' was made before the notorious Night of the Long Knives in 1934, where Hitler and the SS purged the SA and its leadership. In many ways it looks like am EarlyInstalmentWeirdness version of ''Triumph'', with a lot of the same shots, but everyone's more sloppy and less disciplined. In the earlier film the SA men are often big, middle-aged war veterans with beer bellies, and in the later film they're young and handsome. The earlier film also prominently features SA leader Ernst Röhm, who isn't in the later film because Hitler had had him shot in the meantime.
11	* ValuesDissonance: The film is a pro-Nazi PropagandaPiece that extols the virtues of the most infamous dictatorship in history. Even back then, Americans who viewed it had a whole different reaction than the Germans it was intended to indoctrinate.

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