When David Weil was a teenager, he discovered a swastika painted on his high school lawn. When he was in college, he heard someone tell a joke about Jews belonging in ovens. Weil, the creator and c…
was a teenager, he discovered a swastika painted on his high school lawn. When he was in college, he heard someone tell a joke about Jews belonging in ovens.” was subjected to plenty of “casual anti-Semitism” growing up in America, but as of late he has watched that hatred take an even more horrific turn. Over the last few years, the United States has experienced an increasing number of deadly attacks on synagogues and at neo-Nazi rallies.
into “Hunters,” which is primarily set in a fictionalized, stylized 1970s New York City and which follows a group of vigilante Nazi hunters led by Al Pacino’s Meyer Offerman. The titular hunters catch wind that Nazis are in America, planning a Fourth Reich, and set out to stop them by any means necessary.
. Other projects, from Amazon’s adaptation of “The Man in the High Castle” to Waititi’s 2019 feature film “Jojo Rabbit,” paint a more prominent picture.“Jojo Rabbit” took a comedic approach, crafting the Nazis as caricatures. Set during the last days of World War II, in Germany, the Waititi-directed picture depicts a young boy who is smitten with the ideas of Nazism and wants nothing more than to impress his imaginary friend Adolf Hitler by killing Jews.
“The reason to do the series today is not to settle the score of 1940 or to decide what America would have been under Charles Lindbergh, or to decide whether anti-Semitism could have ever achieved some sort of American gulag or American Holocaust for Jews here,” he says. “This is all allegorical to this moment. It’s not Lindbergh now, it’s Donald Trump.
As he got older, Weil admits he struggled with “that idea of birthright and legacy and responsibility” and wondered what he could do. The answer, for him, was a 10-episode drama that also tells stories within the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald.with “brain matter flying into Jello salad,” Weil notes, he and co-showrunner Nikki Toscano approached the Holocaust story with authenticity and “as much reverence as possible.
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