Deliberate Controversy, a conversation – Part 3: “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS” (1975)

This is the third part of an eight-part series about difficult movies. 

Part 1 focused on S. Craig Zahler’s “Dragged Across Concrete”. Part 2 focused on Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris”. Part 4 will focus on Paul Verhoeven’s “Basic Instinct”. Part 5 will focus on Terry Jones’s “Monty Python’s Life of Brian”. Part 6 will focus on Martin Scorsese’s “Last Temptation of Christ”. Part 7 will focus on Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled”. Part 8 will focus on Dinesh D’Souza's “2000 Mules”.

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Referenced media:

• “Drum” (Steve Carter, 1976)
• “Mandingo” (Richard Fleischer, 1975)
• “M*A*S*H” (Larry Gelbart, 1972-1983)
• “Hogan’s Heroes” (Bernard Fein and Albert S. Ruddy, 1965-1971)
• “Scorpio Rising” (Kenneth Anger, 1963)
• “Marathon Man” (John Schlesinger, 1976)
• “Men Behind the Sun” (T.F. Mou, 1988)
• “Emmanuelle” (Just Jaeckin, 1974)
• “Black Christmas” (Bob Clark, 1974)
• “The Godfather Part II” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
• “Teenage Seductress” (Chris Warfield, 1975)
• “Sheba, Baby” (William Girdler, 1975)
• “Supervixens” (Russ Meyer, 1975)
• “Dolemite” (D’Urville Martin, 1975)
• “Monty Pyton and the Holy Grail” (Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones, 1975)
• “Switchblade Sisters” (Jack Hill, 1975)
• “The Happy Hooker” (Nicholas Sgarro, 1975)

Audio quotation:

• “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS” (Don Edmonds, 1975)
• “God Bless America” performed by the West Point Band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ug2t7u_H8
• “Team America: World Police” (Trey Parker, 2004)
• “Wipe Out” performed by The Surfaris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p13yZAjhU0M
• “Horst Wessel Lied”:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8oH3hnCXaQ