Podcast
Real Dictators
The book was brought up to illustrate how the propaganda film created a church‑like, prayerful atmosphere that could hypnotise audiences, with hosts noting its frightening spiritual rhetoric and the fact that David Bowie and Mick Jagger reportedly watched it nine times together. The discussion highlighted its powerful, cult‑like impact rather than giving a direct endorsement.
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It was described by some as a church, or like a deep sense of prayer, and it was so compelling that David Bowie and Mick Jagger watched it together nine times.
They describe it as a church. This is the frightening thing. People use the language of spiritual awakening to evoke these events.
Many described it as like having a deep sense of prayer.
I mean David Bowie and Mick Jagger I think watched Triumph of the Will nine times together.