Perhaps he should have followed it up with a July plot picture, because Bryan Singer's Valkyrie, co-scripted by his Usual Suspects collaborator Christopher McQuarrie, though superior to the Pabst film, is not in the same class as Downfall.
What he failed to realize, though, was that those two criteria were indicators of one and the same, namely, the downfall of the Soviet Union with the resulting temporary political and economic dominance of the previously bipolar system by the United States.
His new clothes, his very greenness, liberate him, make a hero of him, and at the same time are his downfall.
Analysts reckon that the banks gave the stay of execution only because a second collapse on the same day as the downfall of Daewoo Motor would have triggered a crisis of confidence.
Even the chanting was the same: "We want the downfall of the regime!" The target of the crowd's anger may be a different government, but many here feel their efforts in 2011, when they succeeded in removing Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, may have been for nought.
When compared to other Soviet politicians who shared the same fate, Kirilenko's downfall was, according to historian R. Judson Mitchell, a "relatively easy" fall from power.
Same old Arsenal, causing their downfall Three moments decided this match, all went in Chelsea's favour and on all three occasions Arsenal were to blame.
At first, her ideas about beauty and goodness, her mysterious glamour and charm will dazzle and seduce her girls – "the crème de la crème" – at the Marcia Blaine School, but in the end the same gifts will cause her downfall.
Manon's costumes change to reflect her changing fortunes, while the rich nobleman Guillot, a buffoon who finally tires of being treated badly and flexes his muscle to cause Manon's downfall, wears the same clothes throughout.
It was that same shot that saw the downfall of Rohit Sharma, batting too low at four, as he was caught by Ankit off of Kulkarni's bowling for 27.
