Hitler Research

Research for Hitler I watched ten minutes of some of his speeches clipped together and noticed some fascinating things; first of all he started all of his speeches with crossed arms, something you don't associate Hitler with. He is very animated and I will use this in my speech. I found out some fascinating things about Hitler, including the fact that there is no recorded footage of his apparently soft conversation voice and that the only reason why his speeches were filmed is so that he can view them and get maximum response from his audience. His voice box has subsequently been recreated and has shown how soft his voice genuinely was. I spoke to a friend of mine who is a costume designer has supplied me with costumes before and I managed to get hold of some Nazi regalia from her. I also managed to get hold of a moustache, some brown dye and some spirit done to ensure it stayed firmly in place. One thing I did notice was that majority of people seem to think Hitler had black hair and black moustache, whereas in fact his hair was a very similar colour to mine, it is just that in black and white photography is made it look black. The problem with doing this research is that as it is not Stanislavskian work, but Brecht, therefore I cannot put into place all of what I want; this is one reason why I prefer naturalistic theatre.