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Paul Verhoeven's Black Book is simultaneously a sexually charged, non-stop action movie about the Dutch resistance to German occupation in World War II and a bleak examination of the often morally dubious activities of the underground. Not all of the Germans are brutes; many of the oppressed are betrayers of their cause. It may be the most honest - and certainly the most exciting - movie about the secret war ever made. It also represents a comeback for Verhoeven, who left his native Holland in the mid-1980s for Hollywood, where he made big budget sci-fi movies like Starship...
...said that experiencing as a child the German occupation shaped you as a filmmaker...
...That's quite true - there was an enormous amount of sexuality happening. Maybe I'm pushing it, but they would be sabotaging the trains or they would be murdering collaborators or they would be shooting at German officers, then they would come home and sleep with girls...
...very candid and straightforward sexually. My interest in sexuality is well-known, but here I was supported by historical fact. The character of the girl, Ellis, is based on three Dutch women, one of whom was asked by the resistance to start an affair with a German officer, and did so, and then fell in love with him. So that was basically the start of the whole story. Then, of course, her sexuality was transformed into what you would call love...
Ryan, the Weary professor of German and comparative literature, said that she still had the impression that humanities departments at Harvard were smaller than their counterparts at peer institutions, and, as a result, professors’ time was stretched thin...