I didn't bring up money as the reason he made the decisions he did, @astrosanxiety did as a defense
Personally I doubt money had much to do with it
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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @AstrosAnxiety
The bottom line here is that you want to pretend Anne Frank has something to do with you because of her sexuality—despite her sexuality having nothing to do w/her murder—-and that therefore a holocaust survivor’s play (or any of its writers, for that matter) somehow wronged you.
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Replying to @searotonin @AstrosAnxiety
I literally said at the top of the thread that I didn't think Otto was wrong for expurgating the sexual content from the diary as that was her obvious intention
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My point was the diary has already been "appropriated", fictionalized, recontextualized and financially exploited to an enormous degree and you can't just say this thing is okay and that other thing isn't okay simply because Otto Frank approved it
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