Taika Waititi didn’t want 'Jojo Rabbit,' premiering tonight in Toronto, to be a sad Holocaust film. So he added Adolf Hitler
Several years ago, New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi 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.
The film unfolds through the eyes of 10-year-old Jojo , a dedicated Hitler Youth member who confides in an imaginary, friendly Führer during trying times. Jojo’s fanaticism disturbs his mother , and their relationship is further complicated when Jojo discovers that she’s been sheltering a Jewish girl, Elsa , in their attic. Soon Jojo must reconcile his devotion to Hitler with his growing friendship with Elsa.
“Well, I was trying to make him the Fonz of 1945,” Waititi says. In the same vein, he points to the movie’s opening credits sequence, which juxtaposes Jojo running off to summer camp to the sound of The Beatles singing “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in German with footage of early Nazi rallies. “I looked at those documentaries and it just came to me: Hitler was the Beatles of the time in Germany. It was like Beatlemania, the way people responded.
“It never felt like a danger because Hitler is just an access point into this kid who’s brainwashed,” Waititi says. “I guarantee you there were kids who fell asleep talking to an imaginary Hitler in the 1930s and ’40s.” It can be difficult to get a fix on the impish Waititi. He repeatedly stresses his New Zealand roots as a way of waving off the idea of intentional provocation. On the other hand, he bandies words like “chaos” and “disruption” and jokingly ponders whether he would have been forced to live in a bunker if he had gone Method playing Hitler.My mother comes and visits the set, this little Jewish woman from New Zealand, and I’m dressed like Hitler...
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