Posted on 06/27/2009 7:40:56 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The news that Britney Spears may hit the silver screen as the star of a Holocaust-era romantic tragedy has raised eyebrows in Germany. The plot calls for the pop-star to travel back in time to a concentration camp -- and the Central Council of Jews in Germany says the idea is "reprehensible."
After the 2002 cinematic flop "Crossroads," few would have been surprised if teen-talent-turned-adult-disaster Britney Spears never again appeared on the silver screen. According to reports this week, though, Spears is weighing a return to acting -- and it is a comeback that Jews in Germany are viewing with extreme distaste.
Spears, who is currently in the process of successfully resuscitating her recently languishing music career with her global "Circus" tour, is reportedly reviewing a script for a film tentatively titled "The Yellow Star of Sophia and Eton." The flick would see her playing a character named Sophia LaMont who travels back in time to fall in love with a Jewish concentration camp prisoner named Eton. In a tricky critique of ongoing anti-Semitism, the script concludes with the lovebirds travelling back to the present day before being killed by Nazis.
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Britney is going to have to lose a lot of weight for the role.
There was tv movie where a young girl traveled back in time to Nazi Germany. It started where the family was having a celebration and the young girl didn’t want to have anything to do with the celebration because she didn’t understand the significance. I believe it was her grandmother that sat her down and started explaining. Can’t remember the name of the movie or who starred but it was a good movie.
Lemme guess...Kevin Federline will play Oscar Schindler.
And Jack Black as Der Fuhrer.
Man, this could get ugly in a hurry...
Is she going to be able to change her accent or will we be treated to “Hey you Nazis... why are ya’ll so mean?”
BTW, I actually use “ya’ll” 100x a day, so, fellow Southerner who may take offense, don’t get a bee in your bonnet, darlin’.
Did anyone see that “Robot Chicken” where they do a “romantic” version of The Diary of Anne Frank with Hillary Duff?
Then Britney’s character realized that Skynet actually sent her to kill this Jew.
He’s making a list
He’s checking it twice
He’s going to find out
Who’s Nazi or nice
“Schindlers List II - Schindler’s Pissed”
all three of them.
the script concludes with the lovebirds travelling back to the present day before being killed by Nazis only to be killed by an Iranian atomic bomb in Israel. .
Just a quick rewrite....
If I may, the movie was called “The Devil’s Arithmetic”, 1999, starring Kirsten Dunst, also Brittany Murphy, Mimi Rogers and Paul Freeman. It was an excellent movie.
Wow...and I thought the planned remake of Bonnie and Clyde with Hilary Duff was tacky...
Let’s see, she can smother the Nazi guards with her boobies, or distract them with a lewd dance. They’ll have to be helped out by a pair of lesbian prisoners, or homosexual prisoners who were locked up by the nazis for wanting to get married. Or, lets see, the nazis will be producing tons of carbon dioxide with their armament production and fuel operated armor units. Oh, this ought to be a piece of schlock from hades. Oy Vai!
parsy, who is thinking that flinging dreck at the screen would only improve the film.
Thank you very much.
We are going to go through this whole thing again when this ditz screws up and drops dead. Who would pay to see such rubbish?
No way. She couldn't find Germany on a map of Germany.
Not another time travel episode!
No. Sorry to say I missed that.
bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
y’all LOL!
They could have Zero play Der Fuhrer, if they put enough theatre make up on him.
Oprah has turned the movie ‘The Color Purple’ into a musical. It’s playing here in Boston. Just a bunch of happy-go-lucky slaves singin’ and dancin’.
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I understand Britney signing up for this. She’s a few cards short. But the hell wrote this, proposed this, and financed this?
Or, if it was tattooed on her... (never mind)
Haven’t a clue, though it wouldn’t be hard to find out. Not worth the time to look, I wish her the best of luck and a paycheck.
Sounds like a real winner.
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