My boyfriend and I always refer to Black Book as Paul Verhoeven's "Sexy Holocaust Movie," because that's what it is, goshdarnit. He brought some much needed heat to Dachau, which no one understood it was even missing until he went and showed us a Jew dying her pubes for her people. Viva la resistance! Anyway he's finally lining up his next project after a four year drought of Sexy Inappropriateness, and it sounds perfect :
"He announced the project on the Dutch television show Zomergasten (”Summer Guests“). The scenario for the film comes from Verhoeven’s frequent Dutch writing collaborator Gerard Soeteman (who last worked with him on Black Book), but its basis is the Louis Couperus-written Dutch novel De stille kracht, or as its known in English: The Hidden Force. It has also been referred to as The Silent Force or The Silent Power.
I’ve included a summary of the book below, but why synopsize when Verhoeven already sells it so well, and so succinctly?
Here’s what he had to say (roughly translated):
“[The movie is about] rebellion against colonial rule, the emergence of fundamentalist Islam, the behavior between people, adultery and psychic powers. It is a story about things that we do not understand but it does happen.”
I wonder how many boobs will fall out of burqas before this thing is through? Can't wait!
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