Maybe you should save that energy for Sharon Dogar's Annexed, a novel that still shows up on YA reading lists about the Holocaust even though it's a crappy perfunctory paint-by-numbers cash-in ("Peter POV fic") that literally throws in a (highly improbable) sex scene
-
-
I mean, people did get mad Meyer Levin was furious about it to his dying day Fritz Pfeiffer (Albert Dussel)'s widow and son threatened to sue
Show this thread -
This is one of my random special interests, Ellen Feldman's The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank is a novel about the urban legend that Peter van Pels (van Daan) survived the camps and disappeared into anonymity
Show this thread -
Like if that had actually happened How do you think he'd feel about watching a movie where everyone is gawking at him and Anne's awkward first kiss In a movie that turns his dad into a fat fuck villain and his mom into a horrible whining shrew
Show this thread -
(The Anne Frank play was once really important to me and it was a trip learning all the details about its history when I got older And I really do recommend the book The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank, it's The Prestige to Annexed's The Illusionist)
Show this thread -
Anyway I guess my point is... To some degree it's either all okay or none of it is, right? Anyone who "ships" Anne and Peter - as the mainstream movie made millions of dollars doing - has already dived headfirst into the deep end, of exploiting a dead teenager to make art
Show this thread -
Why come after the queer women writing blog posts about seeing themselves in Anne, like that's not only in the same ballpark of offensive but somehow MORE offensive
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Did Otto Frank have ANY other means of supporting himself that we know of? I mean, he lost everything. I don't begrudge him trying to survive in a world that literally took everything from him.
-
The diary's success was already enough to set him up for life financially before the play and the movie were made And even assuming A play and movie had to be made, they didn't have to be THIS play and movie That's exactly what Meyer Levin was mad about
- Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.