So, David Mamet has been hired by Disney to pen a new movie version of “The Diary of Anne Frank.”
Let me repeat.
Disney. Mamet. Anne Frank.
Ext. Holland. Day.
Close up on a perfect blood red tulip. Camera slowly pulls back to reveal the tulip is one of thousands in this field. The wind has them bending in unison. As we pull back even further the tulips become so obscured they have transformed to a sea of blood.
SFX: CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP
We move back in on the field. Big black boots step into screen. They crush the tulips. It is finally revealed, the boots are laced onto the feet of Nazis. Holland is under siege.
Ext. The Hideout. Establishing.
A nice Dutch house.
Int. The Hideout-Attic
It is this tiny alcove of a space that we meet ANNE FRANK. A willowly, underfed but beautiful girl of 15 Anne, is not “Jewish looking” in the typical sense. Her blue eyes are set off by her blonde hair (think a young Nicole Kidman). We will learn in a flashback that as a form of rebellion, Anne traded one week of rations for hair dye.
Anne writes in her diary.
Anne (voice over): Dear Diary, this place sucks. My roots are coming in and mother will kill me if I sell meat again.
MALE VOICE (off screen): Anne? Anne? What are you doing?
ANNE: Nothing.
MALE: Huh?
ANNE: What?
MALE: Whatever you’re doing you need to stop.
ANNE: Why?
MALE: Why what?
ANNE: Why do I have to stop?
MALE: Because the fucking Nazi’s are coming,
ANNE: Fucking Nazis.
Anne relunctantly puts her diary away and crawls under the bed to hide. She looks up and notices the window is open a crack.
ANNE: Shit. Shit. Shit.
Just then, two animated bluebirds fly in the window. They chirp a happy tune.
ANNE: Why? Who are you?
BLUEBIRDS; Chirp chirp chirp!
MALE VOICE: What the fuck is that fucking chirping?
The bluebirds know when it’s time to leave. The give Anne a wink fly back out the window, shutting it when they leave.
ANNE: (to the male voice) Are they gone?
MALE VOICE: Would I be screaming if they weren’t?
ANNE: What?
MALE VOICE: What?
ANNE; (voice over) Dear Diary, it’s very nice of these people to let us live in their attic, but why do they have to be such assholes about it. It’s not like I asked to be Jewish and have everyone hate me. You try living in attic and having your period for a week and we’ll see how you do.
Gunshots are heard outside teh window.
ANNE: Fucking bluebirds can shut a window, but can’t even poke one Nazi eye out. This place sucks.
