Portrayals in Popular Culture
A fictionalized, female version of Eckart (Dietlinde Eckhart) appeared as the main villain and head of the Thule Society in the 2005 anime movie Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa.
In part 4, Phase 1 of the 2000AD story Zenith by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell Eckardt is referred to and depicted as the poet and mystic who initiated a German army corporal (Adolf Hitler) into the occult group called the Cult of the Black Sun after recognizing his potential as a medium. Eckardt and Haushofer put Hitler in contact with the Great Old Ones with their goal of helping the Nazis engineer superhuman bodies that could act as physical vehicles for these Dark Gods.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, portrayals, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“We attempt to remember our collective American childhood, the way it was, but what we often remember is a combination of real past, pieces reshaped by bitterness and love, and, of course, the video past—the portrayals of family life on such television programs as “Leave it to Beaver” and “Father Knows Best” and all the rest.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)
“If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth. But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,—not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)