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Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: KvP on 12 Aug 2009, 14:49
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David "Brass Balls" Mamet is writing and directing an Anne Frank movie for Disney. (http://weblogs.variety.com/bfdealmemo/2009/08/mamet-disney-team-on-frank-tale.html)
I'm trying to think of how this is going to work and I just can't wrap my head around it.
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.....what
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I notice they didn't mention whether it would be cartoon or not.
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"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart, those fucks"
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Joe Montegna is bound to appear, but in what role?
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Mamet brings his own original take on the material that could re-frame the story as a young girl’s rite of passage.
A rite of passage? Into what?
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Don't forget, David Mamet also wrote and directed the Spanish Prisoner, in which the only thing that even approached a curse word was when Rebbecca Pigeon said "Crikey!" after being kissed.
Good moment, that.
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THEEEEE ONLYYYYY GIIIIIIRL IIIII EVEEEEER LOOOOOVED
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Oh lord (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDvq7XMESas)
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Jonas Bros. confirmed as singing nazis.
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Jesus I hate the writing style in Variety.
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(http://s2.buzzfeed.com/static/imagebuzz/web03/2009/7/8/4/--8662-1247040499-6.jpg)
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HOLLYWOOD PICTURES PRESENTS: THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xJq1f_8bw4)
"This one's for president Churchill!"
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This was posted by an AV club writer in the comment thread for this movie and I just had to re-post it:
Anne: Okay, so-
Peter: Yeah. Right. I mean, that's what I was saying.
Anne: What were you saying, though? I couldn't, I mean, I just couldn't. What you were saying.
Peter: Look. Just--look. There's just two people here. There's just us two.
Mrs. Petronella Van Daan: You kids! You kids, be quiet. You kids don't understand what this is. It wouldn't be hiding if we went around _talking_.
Peter: Bitch.
Mrs. PVD: What?
Anne: It's okay. What you were saying before, let's just-
Mrs. PVD: Did you call me that word?
Anne: He didn't. Peter. It is what it is, and what you were saying, let's have it be that. Let's have it _be_ that.
Peter: Because what else are we doing here?
Anne: Because--exactly. Exactly that. What else is this, but two people talking, just two people, and it doesn't have to be anything. It doesn't have to _matter_. Ah god. God, why is this happening?
Peter: Fuck.
Anne: Because you wake up one morning and you look at that window and you think. You can't, fuck, you can't do anything but think. And that smell, everywhere. Your skin, it's like your skin is made of that smell and the light through the window, and that's you. It's always this, it's always been this. It always been this. And it can just be us two, and it can just be that, but always behind that is the window, and the smell, and the light. I can't even _cough_. I can't even _cough_, and you can hear me.
Peter: Bitch.
Mrs. PVD: What did you call me?
Anne: I don't know. Maybe I should write this down.
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(http://s2.buzzfeed.com/static/imagebuzz/web03/2009/7/8/4/--8662-1247040499-6.jpg)
Damn... I was about to post that one.
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Mamet brings his own original take on the material that could re-frame the story as a young girl’s rite of passage.
A rite of passage? Into what?
Eventually every young woman...
Hides from Nazis?
Dies of typhus?
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Eventually every young woman...
Hides from Nazis?
Yes, beware of men with a Mein Kampf look.
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and a love of the rack & screw?
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Mamet brings his own original take on the material that could re-frame the story as a young girl’s rite of passage.
A rite of passage? Into what?
An oven
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Mamet brings his own original take on the material that could re-frame the story as a young girl’s rite of passage.
A rite of passage? Into what?
An oven
1) Ew. That just made me wince.
2) See above, she died of typhus.
3) I have yet to hear a funny Holocaust joke. I don't know if they exist (making fun of Hitler, Mel Brooks style is another thing.)
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I've heard one, but I won't post it here because it's all about the inflection.
I'm glad other people caught the rite of passage. As soon as I read that, I shouted "SHE DIED!"
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No! . . . . . .
Just No!
"Smithers - Release the Hounds."
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I've heard one, but I won't post it here because it's all about the inflection.
I know one that I consider to be legitimately funny but I am not particularly sensitive so I don't know what kind of standard to hold it to.
Also Dovey, what about Variety's writing style is so annoying? Apart from the fact that ever paragraph seems to start with a persons name I guess, that is ridiculous
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I must have clicked through to some other article on that site because on review that isn't particularly offensive at all. I seem to remember the other article using the term "starrer" to refer to a film's relationship to it's lead actor, and basically a lot of other jargonistic bullshit as well.
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http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/mamets-anne-frank-turnaround-disney_7659
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Based on the slim amount of detail in that, if this does ever get made it sounds like it will either be quite interesting or massively sketchy.
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"Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is The Holocaust."
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THEEEEE ONLYYYYY GIIIIIIRL IIIII EVEEEEER LOOOOOVED
I guess one person needed to post this
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And I am glad he did, because I about spat out my scotch. I actually like that album, but the wankery surrounding it is really, really hilarious.
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Jonas Bros. confirmed as singing nazis.
There is no amount of facepalm pictures that can accurately convey my reaction to this.