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> The film tells the story of a German circus clown who is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp for mocking Adolf Hitler and is then forced to lure children
by duxup 1y ago
> The film tells the story of a German circus clown who is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp for mocking Adolf Hitler and is then forced to lure children to their deaths as punishment.
How do you pitch that?
- readthenotes1 1y ago1973: Nazi cosplayers had been marching in the streets of Chicago for years. Nazi Germany and the Holocaust was a living memory for most adults, including Mr Lewis who was Jewish. How do you help people remember? By showing the horror. https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/November-2016/Chicago-Nazi-Party-1978-Skokie-March/ https://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/November-2016/Chicago-N...
- duxup 1y agoI think everything other than Nazis in general tied with it is the issue.
- gwervc 1y ago> How do you pitch that? Using exactly the text you quoted. Since it's about Hitler, Nazi and camps the TV channel ARTE will fund it in a heartbeat. (The current top movie on arte.tv/fr/videos/cinema is "Lili Marleen, un chant d'amour dans l'Allemagne nazie)
- croes 1y agoHow was „Life is beautiful“ pitched?
- duxup 1y agoThat seems dramatically different than the Lewis movie.
- croes 1y agoIs it? > In 1997, Italian director Roberto Benigni won Oscars for “Life is Beautiful,” about a father who uses humor to comfort his young son when they are imprisoned in a concentration camp. ”Benigni stole the idea from me, but he did it well,” Lewis adds. https://qz.com/613084/jerry-lewis-has-broken-a-40-year-silence-about-his-disaster-of-a-holocaust-movie-on-german-tv https://qz.com/613084/jerry-lewis-has-broken-a-40-year-silen...
- duxup 1y agoComforting his son vs luring children to their death? Yes that’s different.
- OJFord 1y agoRemove all of the context which makes it similar and sure it seems superficially different. Both are about humourous men keeping children happy in a concentration camp, with the dark irony that they know (and the children do not) what is to happen.
- neuroelectron 1y agoPowerful war propaganda. government funded, CIA approved.
- duxup 1y agoI don't think that makes sense. A 1970s comedy about a clown luring kids to their death at the hands of the Nazis with funding issues doesn't seem like propaganda ...
- Jtsummers 1y agoIf you read the synopsis (which I presume is close to accurate) on Wikipedia, it does not come across as a comedy at all. A drama with comedic elements (perhaps pushing towards dark comedy at those parts) but not a comedy.
- neuroelectron 1y agoThat really clears it up, thanks.
- kujillo 1y ago[flagged]