She is the one who truly sets Jojo on the road to becoming a better person. Jojo's mother Rosie (Scarlett Johansson, who admittedly shouldn't have been nominated) and the closest thing he has to a father figure, Captain Klenzendorf (Sam Rockwell, who should have been nominated), play a role in teaching Jojo to be kind and to steer away from the vile teachings he's been surrounded by his entire life.īut, crucially, and rightfully, it's Elsa who does the heavy lifting. Scarlett Johansson was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for this movie. He soon begins to see Elsa for what she is - a human being - rather than the monster the Nazis painted her kind out to be. At first, Jojo is a naive little boy who is "massively into swastikas" and considers his imaginary pal Hitler (played by Waititi) to be his best friend.īut when he discovers Elsa in his own home and begins to learn more about the girl, he realizes that all he has been taught as a young Nazi may not be true.
Meanwhile, Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) has one of the most grown-up and powerful character arcs in 2019 cinema. We share her anger at Jojo's initial blind disgust of her, as well as his later lie about the victors of the war. We feel her frustration stuck in makeshift room-in-a-wall in a house in the middle of Germany, feel claustrophobic with her, and our hearts break as we find out more about her back story. While initially carving up a love-hate relationship between Jojo and Elsa, Waititi makes it clear that we are on Elsa's side. There was a worry that "Jojo Rabbit" could have been tone-deaf, a la the James Franco/Seth Rogen comedy "The Interview." However, Waititi, being Maori-Jewish, avoids any sense of this and his script (adapted from Christine Leunens' novel "Caging Skies") is as equally heartfelt and touching as it is broadly funny.Įlsa (Thomasin McKenzie), the Jewish girl hiding in Jojo's cupboard, is the soul of the film. For those who are inclined to follow bigotry, maybe satire can expose the ridiculousness of what it's all about." Satire is risky, but reasonable and rational doesn't change bigots. "It's a satire, but the 'reality' is a mother is risking her life and her child's life by protecting and hiding a Jewish child," he said.
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He thoroughly believes that the movie takes what Vanity Fair calls "the horror of extremisim" very seriously. As the criminals begin to collect their debts and as Henri’s relationship with Laura deepens, he finds himself faced with situations and emotions that simply cannot be quantified on a spread sheet.It's funny as hell, but completely responsible in its storytellingĪbraham Foxman also told Vanity Fair that he was moved by the film's storyline, particularly because he was also, like Elsa, hidden from the Nazis as a child (by a Polish Catholic Nanny). In the adventure park, Henri also crosses paths with Laura, an artist with a checkered past. Most pressing: big loans were taken from criminal elements, and the lenders are now keen to get their money back. Henri inherits an adventure park from his brother – its peculiar employees and troubling financial problems included. Everything changes when he suddenly loses his job, and other variables enter the fray. In the adaptation of the darkly comic novel by the Finnish author, Carell will play insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen, who knows most of life’s answers because he calculates everything down to the very last decimal. Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman are producing and Alex Young will EP for Mandeville Films.
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is teaming with Mandeville Films to turn the Antti Tuomainen novel The Rabbit Factor into a star vehicle for Steve Carell.
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