New Zealander Taika Waititi is a Marvel Avengers series director, and he directed the Oscar-nominated film Jojo Rabbit (2019). In 2003, he also directed a short film, Two Cars, One Night, where two boys talk with a young woman they … Continued

New Zealand-based filmmaker Taika Waititi first gained recognition as a director for his work on the HBO musical-comedy series Flight of the Conchords. Next, he branched into feature films. Waititi found success with the Vampire horror-comedy What We Do in … Continued

In case you missed it, Taika Waititi became the first indigenous person to win an Oscar, and it was for his satirical work on Jojo Rabbit’s script. The World War II narrative follows Jojo, a Nazi Youth whose imaginary friend … Continued

Famous Jewish comedic-filmmaker Mel Brooks, when questioned about playing Hitler in a 2006 interview with the German paper Spiegel, said “It is an inverted seizure of power. For many years, Hitler was the most powerful man in the world and … Continued

There has long been a debate on whether one should make fun of historical villains, like Hitler, and turn them into jokes. Some people believe that to make jokes of evil people, you trivialize the horrors they have committed. I … Continued