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If you want to endear yourself to a PC media and a hypersensitive Hollywood just before the premiere of your World War II movie, make a fake viral trailer that gives uber-love to the Nazis.
A trailer for Nation's Pride, a phony movie celebrating the valor of a Third Reich hero, is making the rounds now to build buzz for Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds. It looks a little bit like what Hollywood might be making these days if the Nazis had won the war and were in charge of the studios. (Send your most obvious Nazi-related Hollywood executive joke to this address: WGA Negotiation Team, 2 Obvious to Get a Laugh Blvd., Pueblo, CO 81009.)
Start the stopwatch on how long it takes for righteous indignation to goose-step its way through the movie business as people overreact to this cheap movie marketing trick and give Tarantino exactly the controversy he's hoping to generate before Basterds' Aug. 21 opening.
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