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October 7, 2009 | 2:19 pm

Will Disney reconsider Anne Frank film?

Posted by Danielle Berrin

Last week, The Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam released the only known film footage of the young diarist who perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, igniting a viral response on the Internet.

The 20 second film was reportedly shot on July 22, 1941, to record the wedding of the Franks’ next door neighbors. About nine seconds into the film, Anne Frank is seen leaning from a window in order to glimpse the bride and groom. Her time on screen is brief but powerful: According to the New York Times, the footage has been viewed on a new YouTube channel more than 1.6 million times in only five days.

You might call that a built in audience for an Anne Frank film. But is Hollywood listening?

The internet firestorm comes at an odd time for Hollywood—or rather, the Walt Disney Company, who recently changed their plans regarding a new film version of “The Diary of Anne Frank.”

In August 2009, Variety reporter Mike Fleming announced that Disney had acquired the rights to the film and that Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet would pen the script. But Mamet, who tends to take on controversial politics in his work, transformed the story into a modern tale of anti-Semitism and the script was deemed “too dark” by the family oriented studio.

Two days after the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana, The Wrap published a report illuminating the problem: “The screenplay is not a retelling of the famous Holocaust drama taken from the diaries of Frank, but about a contemporary Jewish girl who goes to Israel and learns about the traumas of suicide bombing.”

In this light, the project does seem an ill fit for Disney, but after the Internet craze that resulted from Frank’s video debut, they might want to reconsider.

Watch the video below:

 

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Yo Daniele,

The premature of any young child is a very sad occasion & that is why I want Jewish people to think of all the non-Jewish “Anne Franks” that die premature deaths:


A Cry from the Heart of Gaza


Who’s the terrorist?
I’m the terrorist?!
How am I the terrorist when you’ve taken my land?
Who’s the terrorist?
You’re the terrorist!
You’ve taken everything I own while I’m living in my homeland


You’re killing us like you’ve killed our ancestors
You want me to go to the law?
What for?
You’re the Witness, the Lawyer, and the Judge!
If you are my Judge
I’ll be sentenced to death
You want us to be the minority?
To end up the majority in the cemetery?
In your dreams!
You’re a Democracy?
Actually it’s more like the Nazis
Your countless raping of the Arab’s soul
Finally impregnated it
Gave birth to your child
His name: Suicide Bomber
And then you call him the terrorist?


You attack me but still you cry out
When I remind you it was you who attacked me
You silence me and shout:
“Don’t they have parents to keep them at home?”
“But you let small children throw stones!”
WHAT?!
You must have forgotten you buried our parents
under the rubble of our homes
And now while my agony is so immense
You call me the terrorist?


Who’s the terrorist?
I’m the terrorist?
How am I the terrorist
When you’ve taken my land?!
Who’s the terrorist?
You’re the terrorist!
You’ve taken everything I own
while I’m living in my homeland


Why terrorist?! Because my blood is not calm
It’s boiling!
Because I hold my head for my homeland
You’ve killed my loved ones
Now I’m all alone
My parents driven out
But I will remain to shout out
I’m not against peace
Peace is against me
It’s going to destroy me
You don’t listen to our voices
You silence us and degrade us
And who are you?!
And when did you become ruler?
Look how many you’ve killed
and how many orphans you’ve created


Our mothers are crying
Our fathers are in anguish
Our land is disappearing
And I’ll tell you who you are!
You grew up sported
We grew up in poverty
Who grew up with freedom?
And who grew up in continument?
We fight for Our freedom
But you’ve made that a crime
And you, the terrorist call me the terrorist!


Who’s the terrorist?
I’m the terrorist?
How am I the terrorist
When you’ve taken my land?!
Who’s the terrorist?
You’re the terrorist!
You’ve taken everything I own
while I’m living in my homeland


So, when will I stop being a terrorist?!
When you hit me and I turn the other cheek
How do you expect me to thank
the one who harmed me?!
I tell you what!
You tell me how you want me to be!
Down on my knees with my hands tied up
My eyes to the ground
Surrounded by bodies
Houses destroyed
Families driven out
Our children orphaned
Our freedom chained up


You oppress
You kill
We bury
We’ll remain patient
We’ll suppress our pain
Most importantly you feel secure
Just relax and leave us all the pain
You see our blood is like that of dogs
NOT EVEN
When dogs die they receive sympathy
So our blood is not as valuable as a dog’s
No - My blood is valuable
And I will continue defending myself Even if you call me a terrorist

Comment by Gerald Goldberg on 10/10/09 at 11:14 am

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