The Diary of Anne Frank
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Anne Frank: I want to go on living even after I'm dead.

Anne Frank: You know what I do when I think I can't stand another minute cooped up? I think myself outside.

Anne Frank: I've never heard grownups quarrel before.
Mr. Hans Van Daan: It's not a quarrel, it's a discussion. And I've never heard children so rude before.

Otto Frank: Always remember this Anna, there are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind.

Anne Frank: Already I know what I want to do, don't you. I want to be a journalist or something. I love to write.

Anne Frank: We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.

Mr. Albert Dussell: You're spoiling the whole invasion.

Otto Frank: For the past two years we have lived in fear. Now we can live in hope.

Anne Frank: You know the most wonderful part of thinking yourself outside. You can have it any way you like. You can have rows of roses and violets all blooming in the same season, isn't that wonderful.

Anne Frank: But Peter, if you'd only look at it, as part of a great pattern, that we're just a little minute in life.

Anne Frank: Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.

Anne Frank: Margot, Margot, Margot. That's all I ever hear: how good Margot is.

Factual error: Anne Frank received her diary on her birthday, and started writing on it 1 month before she went into hiding. In the movie however, she is presented with the diary on the first she arrives at the hiding place.

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Suggested correction: Since this movie is based on actual events and not considered a documentary, then the film-makers are allowed to change things to their liking.

lartaker1975

While I feel like this sort-of correction could apply to certain elements of movies based on true stories like dramatized scenes (since there has to be some condensation of time and some elements boosted for drama, which can be chalked up to filmmakers changing things), I think a film based on a true story contradicting a known hard fact like this should 100% count as a mistake. Otherwise, you could just as easily argue that any factual error in any film is invalid because the filmmakers are "allowed to change it."

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Question: Why does the play start with The Van Daans already at the Annex when it's clear that they arrive a week later in the diary?

Answer: Movies do not always exactly follow the books they are adapted from. Oftentimes scenes and/or characters are changed, deleted, or streamlined, often because there is a limited amount of time in a movie to tell the story. In this case, it just simplified the plot by having the Van Daans already at the Annex, eliminating the need for two separate arrivals and instead focusing on the Frank family's reactions to their situation.

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