Damn, I guess he was a greedy holocaust survivor huh!
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Replying to @searotonin @AstrosAnxiety
I didn't bring up money as the reason he made the decisions he did,
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Replying to @arthur_affect @searotonin
I wasn't necessarily defending him, but I was suggesting that IF he didn't have any other means, or even if he lived his life afraid of not being able to escape at a moment's notice, well...I can't really blame him for any of that.
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Replying to @AstrosAnxiety @arthur_affect
Why shouldn’t you defend him? It’s none of Arthur’s fucking business how a holocaust survivor made his livelihood or how he talked about Anne Frank, because it has no relevance to him in any shape or form.
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Replying to @searotonin @AstrosAnxiety
...Well, okay, the stated reason Otto gave for creating a stage play and a movie is that it WAS relevant to me (i.e. the story had "universal relevance"), which is one of the things his critics criticized him for
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I mean one of the primary things I think is distasteful about Goodrich and Hackett's adaptation is that it transforms Hermann and Auguste van Pels - who were Jewish victims of the Holocaust - into horrible selfish people and abusive parents
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Replying to @arthur_affect @searotonin
Arthur, you have very strong opinions. Many of them I agree with. But I would gently and politely suggest backing off of this one. While being a holocaust victim doesn't give you a "be a shitty person for life" card, I think it does shield you from criticisms of how you elect to
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tell your story. I honestly think Otto was doing the best he can with what he had to work with, emotionally and financially.
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Replying to @AstrosAnxiety @searotonin
Okay The primary criticism of the adaptation is of Goodrich and Hackett, both Gentiles, for actually writing it, and the studio for making it Otto didn't personally come up with any of the new ideas in it
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The issue is that people tend to use "Otto himself approved all this" as a universal shield for the Anne Frank cottage industry, and I think it's an insufficient one The primary creative force behind most of it has been non-Jews selling media to non-Jews
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I can't pretend to know all the reasons he had for making the decisions he did, but he was just one man in the end anyway If the respectful thing is to leave him out of it because of what he endured in his life I think that means not using him as a shield either
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Replying to @arthur_affect @searotonin
Maybe so, but I don't think anyone here is suggesting we do that.
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