The Diary of Anne Frank: A Movie Everyone Should Watch

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World War II is one the most significant events in the entire human history, and it has an enormous influence to the world until today. People’s life had been changed a lot during World War II, and that provided a lot good topic for literary works. There were lots of movies and books were talking about the holocausts and the fighting in battle. From these great works, people can learn and understand more about World War II. The Diary of Anne Frank, a movie about lives of a group of hiding Jews due to Holocaust, it not only showed the cruelty of Nazi, but also showed the emotion changes of a teenage girl.
The process of publishing the book and producing the film were put in a lot of effort. The diary of Anne Frank was discovered by Miep Gies in Mr. and Mrs. Franks’ bedroom, and she risked her life to keep the diary and some papers with Anne’s handwriting (Gies 173). After the war, Miep gave Anne’s diary back to Anne’s father, Otto Frank. Anne had revised her diary for several times, and Otto Frank published her diary with few changes in 1947. In 1995, there was definitive edition being published, and it restored some part has been deleted by Otto Frank including her complains about her mother, the Van Daans and her curiosity about the changes in her body (Prose 6-9). People were argued about whether Otto Frank should take out some sharpest comments of Anne’s diary. People thought Otto Frank was too easily forget what German had done to Jews, and he changed some themes of Anne’s Diary. But some people argued that he did this because he wanted to make her daughter seems like a better person, and he wanted to protect some sensitive things happened in the annex (Prose 75). The film the diary of Anne Frank was produced by BBC, and PB...

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Works Cited

“Cast and Credits.” Diary of Anne Frank. Masterpiece PBS, 2010. Web. 28 April. 2014. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/annefrank/credits.html
Fox, Michael. “BBC’s ‘Anne Frank’ vividly depicts determined, dreamy teen.” J weekly, 2010. Web. 25 April. 2014. http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/57606/bbcs-anne-frank-vividly-depicts-determined-dreamy-teen/
Gies, Miep. “The Darkest Days.” Anne Frank. Simon and Schuster, 1987. Print.
Prose, Francine. “The Life.” Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife. An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2009. Print.
“Screenwriter Interview.” Diary of Anne Frank. Masterpiece PBS, 2010. Web. 28 April. 2014. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/annefrank/screenwriter.html The Diary of Anne Frank. Dir. Jon Jones. Perf. Ellie Kendrick, Geoff Breton and Ron Cook. PBS, 2010. Film.

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