Smell of the Ice

Smell of the Ice (SotI, smelloftheice) is a Czech Downfall parody maker. The nickname "Smell of the Ice" is a word play on an approximate translation of his surname into English. He is the only Czech Unterganger known to be regularly uploading parodies with English subtitles.

He is an unterganging apprentice with 32 uploaded videos and 24 subscribers as of 25th July 2011.

Style
SotI specializes on classic parodies and cross-overs with another Hitler-related films. He often tries to draw attention to his Czech background using Czech dubbed version of the film (Hitler speaks Czech) or letting Hitler deal with actors impersonating Hitler in older Czech comedies (Hitler versus the "Tomorrow I Will Wake Up" Hitler). Since SotI does not use any graphic editors or advanced video software, he keeps on creating his parodies in the Windows Movie Maker, which causes him troubles such as no subtitle outlines. This forced SotI to decrease the brightness of many scenes to make the subtitles easier to read. The outro SotI uses in his parodies includes an Inception horn signal and a plain inscription "Smell of the Ice Downfall Parodies". The outro is inspired by VZorkić's Die Inception.

Parodies
SotI's first parody was uploaded on 21st May 2011 and was called Hitler plans to rant about every European country. It is also the only parody with yellow, not white subtitles. The original idea was to do a series of Hitler ranting about European countries from Albania to the UK, pointing out the worst stereotypes of each of them. However, SotI's been experiencing problems with depicting stereotypes about the nations he does not know much about. The first "non-serial" parody, Hitler learns Romanian, which is a 11-minute long short film depicting Hitler's troubles when trying to learn a foreign language, is SotI's most viewed parody so far. It was received rather positively especially among Romanians. It was extended and revised later.

Smell of the Ice prefers short parodies, but has also made a couple of longer cross-over parodies. He likes the Hitler reviews scene and Hitler plans scene, but does not like the Original bunker scene very much - he finds it too long. He has also uploaded several Bunker jokes, some of them about controversial topics (e.g. the Lidice massacre). SotI often lets Hitler express his own thoughts (e.g. Pros and Cons - Loca People).

Personal
Smell of the Ice is 24 years old and he's finishing his university studies of English and Social Studies at the moment. He plans to be a high school teacher. He is a liberal and despises any forms of oppression and non-democratic regimes. He admits he is a naïve idealist. Though, some of his attitudes are deeply conservative and formalist. He insists on preserving diacritic marks in everyday use, which can be noticed in subtitles to his parodies. Even though he loves Romanian language and adores anything which has something to do with Romania, he criticizes Romanians for crippling their language by ignoring the diacritic marks. SotI is also a Czech patriot, but looks down on nationalism as on a destructive ideology. His dream is a world of cooperating nations and individuals without wars, violence and prejudices.

Hobbies and interests: philosophy, films (Kubrick, Bergman, Lean, Spielberg, bad cinematography and Tommy Wiseau - just for fun), classical music, playing clarinet and bass clarinet in a symphonic band, collecting pocket calendars, beer (smaller breweries), learning Romanian, desperate looking for a girlfriend, Internet and unterganging.