Topic: Anne Frank gets vulgar, perhaps funky (Read 12310 times)

KvP · « **on:** 12 Aug 2009, 14:49 »

David "Brass Balls" Mamet is writing and directing an Anne Frank movie for Disney.

I'm trying to think of how this is going to work and I just can't wrap my head around it.

JD · « **Reply #1 on:** 12 Aug 2009, 14:49 »

.....what

JD · « **Reply #2 on:** 12 Aug 2009, 14:50 »

I notice they didn't mention whether it would be cartoon or not.

mberan42 · « **Reply #3 on:** 12 Aug 2009, 14:54 »

"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart, those fucks"

KvP · « **Reply #4 on:** 12 Aug 2009, 15:01 »

Joe Montegna is bound to appear, but in what role?

LTK · « **Reply #5 on:** 12 Aug 2009, 16:30 »

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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?

Inlander · « **Reply #6 on:** 12 Aug 2009, 16:59 »

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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #7 on:** 12 Aug 2009, 18:37 »

THEEEEE ONLYYYYY GIIIIIIRL IIIII EVEEEEER LOOOOOVED

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #8 on:** 12 Aug 2009, 18:47 »

Oh lord

Yayniall · « **Reply #9 on:** 12 Aug 2009, 19:26 »

Jonas Bros. confirmed as singing nazis.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #10 on:** 12 Aug 2009, 20:14 »

Jesus I hate the writing style in Variety.

scarred · « **Reply #11 on:** 12 Aug 2009, 23:43 »

KharBevNor · « **Reply #12 on:** 13 Aug 2009, 05:23 »

HOLLYWOOD PICTURES PRESENTS: THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

"This one's for president Churchill!"

Reed · « **Reply #13 on:** 13 Aug 2009, 09:31 »

This was posted by an AV club writer in the comment thread for this movie and I just had to re-post it:

Quote from: Zack Handlen

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.

Mr. Doctor · « **Reply #14 on:** 16 Aug 2009, 08:52 »

Quote from: scarred on 12 Aug 2009, 23:43

Damn... I was about to post that one.

LucyStag · « **Reply #15 on:** 31 Aug 2009, 00:35 »

Quote from: LTK on 12 Aug 2009, 16:30

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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?

Tom · « **Reply #16 on:** 31 Aug 2009, 01:24 »

Quote from: LucyStag on 31 Aug 2009, 00:35

Eventually every young woman...

Hides from Nazis?

Yes, beware of men with a Mein Kampf look.

est · « **Reply #17 on:** 31 Aug 2009, 01:35 »

and a love of the rack & screw?

Jace · « **Reply #18 on:** 02 Sep 2009, 11:19 »

Quote from: LTK on 12 Aug 2009, 16:30

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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

LucyStag · « **Reply #19 on:** 02 Sep 2009, 16:55 »

Quote from: Jace on 02 Sep 2009, 11:19

Quote from: LTK on 12 Aug 2009, 16:30
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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.)

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #20 on:** 03 Sep 2009, 08:11 »

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!"

Kugai · « **Reply #21 on:** 10 Sep 2009, 23:52 »

No! . . . . . .

Just No!

"Smithers - Release the Hounds."

Hat · « **Reply #22 on:** 12 Sep 2009, 15:46 »

Quote from: Bastardous Bassist on 03 Sep 2009, 08:11

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

David_Dovey · « **Reply #23 on:** 14 Sep 2009, 03:38 »

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.

Joseph · « **Reply #24 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 08:08 »

http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/mamets-anne-frank-turnaround-disney_7659

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #25 on:** 29 Sep 2009, 08:21 »

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.

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #26 on:** 06 Oct 2009, 12:59 »

"Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is The Holocaust."

kraemandrummer · « **Reply #27 on:** 20 Oct 2009, 23:02 »

Quote from: KharBevNor on 12 Aug 2009, 18:37

THEEEEE ONLYYYYY GIIIIIIRL IIIII EVEEEEER LOOOOOVED

I guess one person needed to post this

Darkbluerabbit · « **Reply #28 on:** 27 Oct 2009, 21:48 »

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.

Theriandros · « **Reply #29 on:** 01 Nov 2009, 09:38 »

Quote from: Yayniall on 12 Aug 2009, 19:26

Jonas Bros. confirmed as singing nazis.

There is no amount of facepalm pictures that can accurately convey my reaction to this.

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