They did do this in AF:TWS but they only really did this in one or two scenes, which actually focused on these sounds, for example, the scene in AF:TWS where Anne is gazing at the Westerkerk from the attic window.Īpart from these however, there were many parts of the film which I thought were highly exaggerated. One thing they did in The Diary of Anne Frank which they didn’t do in AF:TWS was play the sounds of the Westertoren bells in the background often throughout the film, and also the sound of bombs. This they didn’t do in Anne Frank: The Whole Story – possibly because of the fact that they couldn’t get permission to quote the diary and so maybe they didn’t have permission to shoot outside the house eaither. They also merged Mr Kleiman and Mr Kuglar (known as Mr Koophuis and Mr Kraler in the published version of the diary) into one person – Mr Kraler.Īnother thing I thought they did well in the film was the fact that they did location shooting in Amsterdam for the outdoor shots of the Prinsengracht and the Westerkerk. There were some things which I felt were more accurate in this film than Anne Frank: The Whole Story (which is widely regarded as the most accurate of all films made about Anne Frank to this day) such as the fact that they pronounced most of the names closer to the Dutch/German pronunciation, such as ‘ah-nuh’ instead of ‘an’, ‘ay-dith’ instead of ‘ee-dith’ and ‘pay-tuh-r’ instead of ‘pee-tur’. However, the way they pronounced Margot annoyed me (especially the way Millie Perkins said it), they said ‘mar-get’ instead of ‘mar-g-ho’ which I think is how her name was pronounced.Īs the film was based on the published version of the diary (by that I mean the version edited by Otto Frank which mainly consisted of version b – Anne’s rewritten diary) the names used in the film were psudonyms rather than actual names, such as Mr and Mrs van Daan instead of Mr and Mrs van Pels and Albert Dussel instead of Fritz Pfeffer. What surprised me though was that they left out the helpers Bep Voskuijl and Jan Gies (who was Miep’s husband). ![]() However, I got round to watching it yesterday after renting the DVD out from the uni library and I have to say I was somewhat suprised. To be honest, I had my reservations about the film because I heard rumours that it was wildly innacurate and that Anne was portrayed to be like a 1950s American teenager rather than the 1940s Dutch girl which she was. You will probably be surprised to know, considering the Anne Frank fan that I am, that I have only just got round to watching the 1959 film version of The Diary of Anne Frank starring Millie Perkins as Anne. ( P.I thought I would post a review that I wrote on my own personal blog last year about the 1959 film The Diary of Anne Frank. Even though the tragic story of Anne Frank's life and death has been told numerous times, it deserves to be repeated: this wonderful production offers a fine tribute to her indefatigable spirit. Directed by Jon Jones, this latest effort was initially presented as a five-part miniseries, but for the DVD release stateside is offered here in both its original format and an abridged 100-minute movie version. Teenager Ellie Kendrick delivers an outstanding performance as the heroine, capturing the intelligence and complexity revealed in the original work in a vibrant portrayal that is, arguably, closer in spirit to its inspiration than the somewhat Americanized interpretations by Millie Perkins in the celebrated 1959 film and Melissa Gilbert in the 1980 made-for-television version. ![]() Set in an authentic reproduction of the house in wartime Amsterdam where Anne, her parents, and her sister, along with four others, hid from the Nazis for more than two years, the essence of the drama remains the same, but this telling places a greater emphasis on the physical aspects of the claustrophobic terror evoked by the situation. This BBC television production, despite its title, is not a remake of the Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, but a new adaptation of Anne Frank's posthumously published diary.
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