Comments on: David Mamet. Yes. David Mamet. To Adapt ‘The Diary Of Anne Frank’ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/david-mamet-yes-david-mamet-to-adap-20090812/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 04:02:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: stephen https://staging2.theplaylist.net/david-mamet-yes-david-mamet-to-adap-20090812/#comment-9809 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:13:43 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=6585#comment-9809 I think I know why they hired him. Mamet is extremely involved in fighting and studying anti-semitism. He's written several books related to Judaism and anti-semitism (from Wikipedia): "Mamet's recent books include The Old Religion (1997), a novel about the lynching of Leo Frank; Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (2004), a Torah commentary, with Rabbi Lawrence Kushner; The Wicked Son (2006), a study of Jewish self-hatred and antisemitism."
The guy might actually be the perfect choice for this adaptation. I don't see him shying away from the unpleasant details.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/david-mamet-yes-david-mamet-to-adap-20090812/#comment-9753 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:42:26 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=6585#comment-9753 So…many…parodies…coming to mind…

"Still believe people are good at heart? Fuck you, go home and play with your sister. Think of all the beauty around you instead of the misery? I don't give a shit. You need BRASS BALLS to survive the Holocaust. I dodged 970 Nazis last year. How many did you dodge? That's who I am!"

etc.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/david-mamet-yes-david-mamet-to-adap-20090812/#comment-9745 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:46:30 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=6585#comment-9745 I'm glad they're doing this because every year I forget about the Holocaust and every Nov-Dec Hollywood is more than happy to re-educate me on the subject.

]]> By: rodrigoperez https://staging2.theplaylist.net/david-mamet-yes-david-mamet-to-adap-20090812/#comment-9737 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:16:36 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=6585#comment-9737 Disney's Touchstone put out an R-Rated movie called Rushmore that some people like. We shouldn't necc assume because it's Disney it will be atrocious. Also Mamet is incapable of writing something that isn't Mamet-like, i.e., involved, smart, not populist.

Presumably they hired him for a reason. Sure, they could fuck it up, but let's not necc presume it's Disney proper of yore.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/david-mamet-yes-david-mamet-to-adap-20090812/#comment-9736 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:07:03 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=6585#comment-9736 It might be alright if they allow Mamet to explore the areas that the other films leave out — the stark depression of Anne in the face of adolescence and the Holocaust, Otto Frank's subtle hubris and ultimate guilt in hiding from the Nazis, etc.

But it's Disney, so they'll probably have songs about cleaning up the annex before the workers arrive.

]]> By: Anonymous https://staging2.theplaylist.net/david-mamet-yes-david-mamet-to-adap-20090812/#comment-9735 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:57:37 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=6585#comment-9735 I was hoping for Joe Mantegna as Anne.

]]> By: Ryan https://staging2.theplaylist.net/david-mamet-yes-david-mamet-to-adap-20090812/#comment-9730 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:31:54 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=6585#comment-9730 Starring Ricky Jay as Anne.

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