History Main / HitlerCam

* Used in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films to make Creator/RobbieColtrane look superhumanly tall as Hagrid.

* Used in ''Videogame/DayOfTheTentacle'' during Purple Tentacle's TakeOverTheWorld speech, [[http://www.cyberaxe.net/gallery/Miscellaneous%20Art%20and%20Graphics/Take%20on%20the%20World.png as seen here.]]

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': When Cersei approaches Gregor Clegane to be her champion, the camera is kept at a very low angle to make Gregor tower over her even more.
** Which is something of a necessity, as while Haftor Bjornsson is very tall (6' 9"); he is much shorter than the character is supposed to be (Somewhere between 7'10" and 8' 1").

** Justified in season 8 when the Night King approaches Bran (who's in a wheelchair), the scene being shot from Bran's head height makes the Night King's downward look of contempt even more effective.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe", Moe gets a girlfriend through an internet dating site; the photo she sends him is taken in this style, of her in front of the Empire State Building and taken from a very low angle (so she appears almost as tall as the building due to forced perspective). When he meets her in person, she's actually about 3 feet tall - made even better when she admits that it wasn't even the real Empire State Building in the background, but that the shot was actually taken at Legoland!

** In Season 3 episode 7, Tywin talks with Joffrey in the throne room. To show who really hold the power in the scene, Tywin is given a low Hitler cam while Joffrey is shot from above.

Named for the 5ft 9in (175 cm) [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Nazi dictator]], who insisted on being filmed in this manner. [[GodwinsLaw Talk about your "significant influence."]] A more {{sesquipedalian|Loquaciousness}} synonym is "subordinated viewpoint."

* Used in the ''WebAnimation/MightyMagiswords'' episode "The Incredible Tiny Warriors" to a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments very positive effect]]. After being nearly digested by a giant anthropomorphic lion, [[HeroicBSOD Vambre sinks into a depressive state, focusing on how tiny she thinks of herself]]. When her brother Prohyas sings her a PepTalkSong about what a big deal she is, there's a low-angle shot of her starting to smile, as she no longer thought of herself as small.

* [[TropeNamers Hitler,]] [[CaptainObvious obviously.]]

** Which is something of a necessity, as while Haftor Bjornsson is very tall (6' 9"); he is much shorter than the character is supposed to be (Somewhere between 7'10" and 8' 1")

When shot all the way from ''the floor'', this is known as a Worm's Eye View, a term for the technique originally coined by Creator/OrsonWelles. See also BigLittleMan. LowAngleEmptyWorldShot is also from a low angle, but is primarily to hide nearby scenery, not to center on a person.

Compare with DutchAngle.

Named for the 5ft 9in (175 cm) [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Nazi dictator]], who insisted on being filmed in this manner. [[GodwinsLaw Talk about your "significant influence".]] A more {{sesquipedalian|Loquaciousness}} synonym is "subordinated viewpoint".

* Used in ''Videogame/DayOfTheTentacle'' during Purple Tentacle's TakeOverTheWorld!! speech. [[http://www.cyberaxe.net/gallery/Miscellaneous%20Art%20and%20Graphics/Take%20on%20the%20World.png picture]]

* Used in the ''WebAnimation/MightyMagiswords'' episode "The Incredible Tiny Warriors" to a [[HeartwarmingMoments very positive effect]]. After being nearly digested by a giant anthropomorphic lion, [[HeroicBSOD Vambre sinks into a depressive state, focusing on how tiny she thinks of herself]]. When her brother Prohyas sings her a PepTalkSong about what a big deal she is, there's a low-angle shot of her starting to smile, as she no longer thought of herself as small.

** Used in ''Film/ChimesAtMidnight'' for the newly-crowned Henry V.

** Used in ''Film/ChimesOfMidnight'' for the newly-crowned Henry V.

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* Used in ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy'' to make it look like Bucky is posing with a real car, as opposed to a small model of one.

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* After Wrestling/TetsuyaNaito defeated Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada for the [[Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling IWGP]] Heavyweight Title belt, Okada, who is taller than Naito, made heavy use of low camera angles while filming himself training for the rematch, to make himself look even larger and more powerful than Naito.
* The history of ProfessionalWrestling has been one of routinely exaggerating performers' billed height and/or weight to make them seem literally 'larger than life'. One way this is carried over into the onscreen presentation in e.g. Wrestling/{{WWE}} is that during wrestlers' entrances to the ring or when walking backstage they will almost invariably be shot from a low angle to make them look (even) larger and more imposing. Cuts to wide shots occasionally give glimpses of the close-up cameramen scurrying backwards in front of them in a virtual crouch. When it's a wrestler who's TheGiant the angles from which they're shown will sometimes be even more extreme to make the effect still more pronounced.
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* On ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk'', the Hulk was always shot from a low angle. Lou Ferrigno is a very big guy, but they apparently needed him to look taller.

* Used on Darth Vader in ''[[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]]'' after his reconstruction, since Hayden Christensen is shorter than David Prowse.

The inverse of the '''Hitler''' Cam is to shoot the figure much higher than normal, looking down on them to make them appear smaller or more insignificant. The two varieties are often combined to emphasize the extreme difference in size or power between two people.

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* Bashar al-Assad also used this, and he could easily pass for an Arab Hitler.

* ''October: Ten Days that Shook the World'', is a 1927 pro-Soviet propaganda film that pioneered the technique in its demonizing of the representative of the Provisional Government. The man even sports a Hitler 'stache twenty years before it became ''chic'' for dictators to do so, hilariously enough.

* UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini would always be photographed from a slightly low angle, as visible in [[http://maximus.pl/pliki/grafika//historia/mussolini.jpg the photo he used for his autobiography]]. He was only 5'6"...although he still dwarfed the diminutive King, 5'0" Vittorio Emmanuel III.

* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', Saruman is shown high up on a tower, giving a speech. The camera then sweeps back to a [[http://www.stockphotopro.com/photo-thumbs-2/stockphotopro_5375309ZRV_no_title.jpg Riefenstahl-esque shot of a massive army]].

* After Wrestling/TetsuyaNaito defeated Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada for the [[Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling IWGP]] Heavyweight Title belt, Okada, who is taller than Naito, made heavy use of low camera angles while filming himself training for the rematch, to make himself look even larger and more powerful than Naito.[[/folder]]

* Petite female pop singers like ChristinaAguilera often use this trick to avoid being dwarfed by their backup dancers.

* After Wrestling/TetsuyaNaito defeated Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada for the [[Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling IWGP Heavyweight Title belt, Okada, who is taller than Naito, made heavy use of low camera angles while filming himself training for the rematch, to make himself look even larger and more powerful than Naito.[[/folder]]