The Diary of Anne Frank on PBS- Page 2

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 12:24pm

But neither of you can seriously be advocating that this should have been performed in Dutch, are you? If a movie or play takes place with the entire cast of characters speaking in (ostensibly) a foreign language that we are hearing as English, why is any accent necessary at all?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 12:43pm

I never noticed their accents at all. Thank God it wasn't a Canadian production, with Anne saying "we gotter go hide from dose Nazis 'n we can't go ootside at all, eh?"

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 12:46pm

They should do a Dutch film directed by Paul Verhoeven featuring the long-censored moment from the diary where Anne dyes her pubes blonde.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 12:50pm

Margot: You were up in the attic with Peter again, weren't you? Anne was must you act like a whore?

Anne: I'm not!

Mrs. Van Dann: But you are a whore, darlin'.

(except this is all in Dutch)
Updated On: 4/13/10 at 12:50 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 1:27pm

"But neither of you can seriously be advocating that this should have been performed in Dutch, are you?"

No I just think they shouldn't sound like they just graduated from RADA. And the Franks were from Germany, so the speech patterns of Anne's parents would have influenced her to have more of a German sound, which has a more gutteral (harsher?) sound than British.

In the movie "The Hiding Place" which is a parallel to the Anne Frank story, Julie Harris did attempt a Dutch accent.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 1:31pm

I just think - like I said earlier - if everyone is supposed to be speaking the same language (and it's being heard by us in English) affecting accents is unnecessary and distracting.

[morosco]

Posted: 4/14/10 at 9:17pm

Watching now. Wonderful.