08.12.09 SRSLY? DAVID MAMET’S DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
(”Uh, I’m here for the gangbang?”)
Despite the fact that this sounds like a pitch for an SNL sketch (in the vein of Patton Oswalt’s “Midnight in the Olive Garden of Good and Evil”) David Mamet really is writing a screen version of The Diary of Anne Frank.
The film will be an amalgamation of the famed diary; the stage adaptation by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich; and Mamet’s own original take on the material that could reframe the story as a young girl’s rite of passage. Frank, who died at 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, became an icon of the Holocaust after the post-war publication of the diary that she kept during the two years that her family hid in a secret attic apartment in Amsterdam. [Variety]
Yes! That’s what The Diary of Anne Frank was always missing: witty, fast-paced dialog!
Say Anne, whaddya think about keepin a diary?
Keepin’ a diary?
That’s right, a diary. A book where ya put ya thoughts, ya dreams… ya philosophizin’.
I know what a diary is, ya wiseguy. Why should I keep a diary? Why I ain’t nothin but a little Jewish girl, hidin’ out, tryin’ ta keep away from da Nazis. Ooh I hate dem big, ugly goodfanuttin Nazis!
Sure, but like I said, it’s a place where you put your hopes, ya dreams.
I just tole ya, my dream’s ta keep away from da Nazis, what I need a book for?
…Okay, I admit, my David Mamet parody might’ve gotten infected with The Three Stooges. It happens. Still, I’m excited for this. Almost as excited as I am for Joss Whedon’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Aaron Sorkin’s Les Miserables, Sam Mendes’ Transformers 3. Or the George Romero remake of State & Main, State & Main & Zombies. (it’s a metaphor).
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SRSLY? DAVID MAMET’S DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Diary like piggy bank for thoughts; good for saving, but no accrue interest until another is invested.
Anne Frank’s Diary needs more robot fucking.
*The Mighty Feklahr sits “reading” Hustler in His Millenium Falcon-esque cockpit of Grethor as He notices something go flying by waaaaay over His head!*
Guy’cha! That must have been DNA’s post about Anne Frank!
Freedom…is for closers.
I’d be excited for Benicio del Toro’s ‘Inferno’.
I still think this would be a better film to give to Roman Polanski.
You know what you have to have to escape the Germans? Brass balls.
Anne Frank’s Dairy are tales of lactating.
I’m waiting for Setzer & Friedberg’s masterful parody of this, The Diarrhea of Anne Frank.
Wait, can David Mamet write The Diary of Anne Frank?
Wouldn’t that just be The Diary of David Mamet?
Are Anne Franks kosher?
As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is Auschwitz.
…Mamet’s own original take on the material that could reframe the story as a young girl’s rite of passage.
Your body is going through some pretty severe changes. First, you’re going to notice hair falling out in places where it’s never fallen out before. Then, you’ll have abdominal pains and bleeding. Don’t worry, that’s just the cruel and inhumane experiments the master race is performing on you. Finally, you may want to start using an antiperspirant because at one point or another you’re going into an incinerator and you don’t want pit-stains to ruin that experience, do you?
I know girls who are confined to a basement, but they can’t write shit with their hands cuffed to my water heater.
It’s a good thing she died in a concentration camp. Can you imagine the horror of having found out so many people read your diary?
I feel like the holocaust has gone from being tragic, to being funny, to just being annoying. Like that child who dies in your basement, but then you turn him into a puppet, but then he starts to smell.
They gave out diaries at the holocaust?
A young girl’s rite of passage into what exactly, the grave?!?!?
In a world where Nazi’s are killing every goddam thing in sight, one girl will discover what it is to be a woman. From writer/director David Mamet comes the inspiring tale of one girl’s journey from childhood through menstruation and onto typhus. Miley Cyrus as Anne Frank in David Mamet’s magnum opus…The Diariest.
She kept a diary from the Not-sees.
Fucking Hairy. You come back and you don’t even say hi?
You know you’re my man crush.
Dear Diary,
Today I get to go to camp! And I get to take a train there! We’ll play games like concentration and War. Then, at the end, we’ll have a big campfire! BRB
*last entry*
It’s shit like that that makes me want Chino inside me.
What?
Anne Frank wasn’t nearly as forthcoming as her name suggested.
Me, too, Swi.
<3 Chino
I just finished reading The Diary of Frank. It’s the story of a boy’s dream to escape the farmhouse he is surviving in to one day produce the freshest chickens the world has ever seen.
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