Taika Waititi didn't want 'Jojo Rabbit' to be a sad Holocaust film. So he added Adolf Hitler
by Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times
Sep 02, 2019
4 minutes
Several years ago, New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi ("Thor: Ragnarok") was writing an adaptation of "Caging Skies," an obsessive love story between a Hitler Youth boy and the Jewish girl his family is hiding. Waititi's mother had tipped him off about the novel but, upon reading it, he found that the book's serious tone differed significantly from the weird, twisted and fun way his mom had described it.
For Waititi, that posed a problem. He didn't want to make a Holocaust drama like "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" because, he says, he can't handle making a movie that
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