From mobile.france24: French banking giant BNP was left
red-faced this week after it emerged managers were shown a motivational video
featuring a parody of a famous scene from the film "Downfall" in
which Adolf Hitler is portrayed as the boss of Germany's Deutsche Bank.
It’s a scene that has been parodied thousands of times
before to comic effect. But it appears not many people have seen the funny side
of one particular version made by executives of French bank BNP Paribas.
The moment in the 2004 German film "Downfall" when
Hitler, played by Bruno Ganz, berates his generals upon realising the war is
lost has been reworked to satirize just about every crucial moment in modern
sport and politics.
Whether they portray the Führer realising that Manchester
United have lost the league title or that Barack Obama has been re-elected, the
spoof videos have proved undisputed hits on YouTube.
But the version created by two executives at BNP is unlikely
to go viral. In the video, which was shown to around 100 managers from around
the world at a seminar in Amsterdam last year, Hitler is turned into a fuming
boss of Germany’s Deutsche Bank reacting furiously to news that BNP has gained
an edge in the foreign exchange market…..
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