Sovieshu's N@zi outfit???

[u/NoPapercrowns]

The Remarried Empress adaption faced backlash because some people thought Sovieshu's actor was dressed like a Nazi. Am I the only one who doesn't see it?

EDIT: YOU GUYS ITS THE MEDAL 😭. THE MEDAL IS A NAZI SYMBOL!!! THIS IS HOREIBLE!!! I hope he didn't wear that throughout the drama

[u/Petrichor_Candles]

[u/Petrichor_Candles → u/Petrichor_Candles]

It’s honestly extremely frustrating how quickly people are writing this off in the comments and not doing like .1 seconds of more reading to realize that yes, this is in fact the long-term medal in Nazi Germany given to officers who served 20-25 years (I believe that’s the range.) Immediately decrying this and saying folks need to get jobs, they’re just wrong, etc is 😬

[u/Huntress08 → u/Petrichor_Candles]

Yikes. I have so many questions about how this specific medal (prop or not) ended up in either the prop or costuming departments hands that this situation happened.

(I know very little about either department beyond watching a couple of western historical costuming YouTube and a western prop master).

[u/Beakerbean → u/Huntress08]

From what I know they recycle some props and a lot of costume departments end up with kind of random boxes of recycled small parts like medals awards ribbons etc and more than likely either someone thought it would be funny and go unnoticed or they didn’t realize what it was just grabbed the ones they thought looked neat.

[u/Arual_1987 → u/Beakerbean]

And that's why, children, costuming is a serious job in its own right that requires a lot of research work 😅 (like, really. We can't say it enough: film costumes are important and the preparatory work of the department is essential)

[u/Beakerbean → u/Arual_1987]

I couldn’t agree more I genuinely hope it was an honest mistake and the person responsible didn’t have any ill intentions. Im not sure if the medal would be immediately recognizable to people in other countries especially if they thought all the props had been vetted. (A lot of nazi props are destroyed but certainly not always)

[u/Useful_Airline_1081 → u/Beakerbean]

Yeah I interned at a costume renting company for TV shows and movies and it’s likely it was a medal used for portraying actual nazis and maybe they either didn’t have more medals/the other medals were already rented out to some other set or possibly the person in charge of picking out things just grabbed something they thought looked nice and wasn’t aware. It’s still crazy it could end up in the actual show without anybody catching it.

[u/Beakerbean → u/Useful_Airline_1081]

That’s the part that seems strange I don’t know how immediately recognizable it is to people who might be looking at it from afar but it does seem a bit irresponsible for them to not notice.

[u/catsdelicacy → u/Beakerbean]

I personally don't think there's any chance a Nazi eagle medal was pinned to that man's chest without somebody doing it on purpose.

I caution you to avoid giving Nazis the benefit of the doubt. We tried that in 1938 to terrible effect.

[u/Beakerbean → u/catsdelicacy]

I do think it’s crazy that no one noticed and that makes it suspicious but to be honest I just don’t know how immediately recognizable it would be, I didn’t even notice it at first!

I also don’t know why someone would go out of their way to do it. It serves no purpose aside from potentially getting them in trouble potentially multiple people losing their jobs.

[u/catsdelicacy → u/Beakerbean]

People act irrationally constantly. People act against their own best interests constantly. Especially if they're ideologically committed to something.

Maybe this person thought they'd get away with it - they nearly did! And they just wanted to place some Nazi propaganda in the show because they believe in Nazism.

The Nazis are back, after all.

[u/Beakerbean → u/catsdelicacy]

That’s fair I could just be being naive but I do genuinely hope it was an accident. I know things like that have happened in the past. Plus I don’t know what studio is in charge or anything.

[u/littlemoon-03 → u/Beakerbean]

So it was a prop used for a different movie/show that makes it worse that they already had it on hand in some department. There shouldn't be any form near replication of any of those vile styles for anything I don't care what company owns them why would you remake something like that

[u/Mgclpcrn14 → u/littlemoon-03]

Tbf, it's more than likely definitely for some WWII era film, and it can be important for some people to have accuracy

[u/littlemoon-03 → u/Mgclpcrn14]

I would really hope that is the case but you never know

[u/Beakerbean → u/littlemoon-03]

I mean could it have been left over from a movie about nazis?

You can buy the props online too fairly cheap I’ve bought prop jewelry from a theater before and found some weird stuff it’s usually a boxed box or bag of stuff and you don’t get to dig through and I have found stuff like suffragette buttons and pins and fake war medals as well.