Thank you for posting this, Perez. Morgan and I graduated high school together, and we both now go to VT. We miss you, Morgan, please come home. 2-4-1.
I highly doubt that this would be a typical "Disney" movie anyway. And as for keeping our children innocent, I read her diary for the first time when I was in third grade. My father took me to the library, checked it out for me, and explained to me that I was old enough to understand what I was about to read and that I needed to learn about what happened in the Holocaust, and to Anne herself. I think there are a lot more things we should be concerned about exposing our children to than something that actually is a part of history.
Keep in mind, too, that Anne was 13 when she started writing her diary, and she was 15 when she died at Bergen-Belsen. It's not like we're trying to adapt the story of a 30-year-old here. Why not have Disney, a household name that also owns many other huge production companies like Miramax, retell her story in the way she herself would have lived it? In my opinion, there's no one better to make a movie about the life of a child than Disney.
"In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank, July 15, 1944.
I wondered the same thing about Jack Nicholson. He's the winningest man in Oscars history, yet he didn't get to present the Best Actor award? I don't get it.
So what? The media controls way too much anyway. The mistakes obviously didn't matter, as he's still the president, so if he and Roberts wanted to do something about it, let them. It's been a time-honored tradition because, if I remember correctly, the past few presidents have been media-hungry bastards. I can't blame him for wanting to live as little of his life in the public eye as possible.
Keep in mind, too, that Anne was 13 when she started writing her diary, and she was 15 when she died at Bergen-Belsen. It's not like we're trying to adapt the story of a 30-year-old here. Why not have Disney, a household name that also owns many other huge production companies like Miramax, retell her story in the way she herself would have lived it? In my opinion, there's no one better to make a movie about the life of a child than Disney.
"In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank, July 15, 1944.