Attics Are For Closers • David Mamet is writing a movie about Anne Frank. ABH. Always Be Hiding. (Sorry!)
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Tags: Anne Frank | David Mamet | Holocaust | Jews
August 12, 2009
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Miley is already in talks to star.
Score = 4
Miley is already attached to the Lego Movie.
Score = 5
That's the beauty of Legos! Anything constructed can be quickly and easily disassembled, and the pieces can be used for new projects!
Score = 4
Here is a horrible thing. http://www.stu42.com/
Score = 1
I'm all for satire -- but that seems more like a Family Guy punchline... 2 random things that are absurd/offensive when put together = klassic komedy.
I haven't seen anything except the title though, so I'm withholding judgment.
Score = 2
I'm surprised Walt Disney's frozen head greenlighted a pro-Jewish film
Score = 7
You know what it takes to hide from the Nazis and come of age at the same time...brass balls gentlemen.
Score = 3
Because you know what Anne Frank needed: misogyny and swears.
Executives, earning their bonuses.
Score = 2
Alec Baldwin character: I could go out there and kill thousands of Jews tonight, gentlemen. Can you? You know what it takes to be a mass murderer, gentlemen? BRASS BALLS!
Score = 0
directed by Quentin Tarantino?
Score = 2
"Mamet brings his own original take on the material that could re-frame the story as a young girl’s rite of passage."
So , he's just gonna make up stuff, like hunky love interest #1, and a sassy know it all gay friend that just happens to be hiding with them now?
Score = 3
"Mamet brings original materials to re-frame the once rickety rail-car that served as a young girls rite of passage... to concentration camp"
Score = 2
i'm not entirely comfortable with the twist ending, revealing that she wasn't jewish and that it was all part of an elaborate nazi con on the family that housed them
Score = 2
First Draft of David Mamet’s “Diary of Anne Frank”
Gustav: So we’re only talking about hiding….not actually talking…
Anne: No1 Yes we’re just speaking about it. (Pause) As an idea. (Pause) What the fuck you care? We’re only talking…..
Gustav: Oh. Because it’s illegal you know….
Anne: Yes. Yes it is very illegal. (Pause) It’s also very foolproof.
Gustav: You’re actually talking about this!
Anne: You’re damn right.
Score = 4
Why do we even need to show the factory? Christ, half the country can draw the floor plans from memory.
Score = 0
"2nd prize for escaping the nazis? a set of steak knives."
Score = 3
Mamet is responsible for some of the best script writing ever, including "Glengarry Glen Ross", which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. I'm pretty sure he'll do Anne Frank justice.
Score = 0
Mamet is amazing at what he does--snappy, passive-aggressive dialogue between men in a, mostly, modern American setting. He's quite simply behind the bulletproof, gold-plated case of legends at this point--that goes without saying.
He's explored Jewishness before. That said, do I think he can tell this story? Of course. Do I think it will be good? Not really. But I'm reeeeeeeally interested in seeing how this one plays out.
Score = 2
Concur fully. That's really what I was trying to say as well.
Score = 0
NAZI OFFICER
What is your name little girl?
ANNE
Fuck you, that's my name!
Score = 3
Coffee is for survivors.
Score = 1