However, the results of that blame are far from funny. Waititi knows this too and rightfully in this movie we never go to the death camps. We never see the piles of shoes, the messy reality of the consequences of this blame. The blame is not the story Jojo Rabbit is telling, and that's okay.

a b c d Licuria, Rob (January 23, 2020). "Production designer Ra Vincent ('Jojo Rabbit') on the challenges of Nazi imagery on location in Europe [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW]". GoldDerby. Archived from the original on January 24, 2020 . Retrieved March 6, 2021. Mayes C. Rubeo, who had previously collaborated with Waititi in Ragnarok, became Jojo Rabbit's costume designer. In an "intensive" conversation about the costumes, Waititi favored "formal, elegant" fashion, as it matched the kind of clothing people wore in that era, according to his research. He also wanted a design that symbolized the joy of childhood: bright, vivid colors, stressing the ambition to contrast typical historical films. Rubeo interpreted these as Italian neorealism, a filmmaking style popular in the 1940s. [2] :20 [44]

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Lippert, Christian W. (2021). Snake Mind, Wolf Body, Panther Courage: Jojo Rabbit as a Critique of Hegemonic Masculinity (Master's thesis). Logan, Utah: Utah State University. Archived from the original on July 3, 2021 . Retrieved July 2, 2021. Retrieved June 3, 2021 Jojo Rabbit". Searchlight Pictures. Archived from the original on September 14, 2019 . Retrieved February 17, 2021. a b Tangcay, Jazz (January 31, 2020). "Mayes C. Rubeo on Storytelling Through Costume Design". Variety. Archived from the original on August 20, 2020 . Retrieved February 16, 2021.

Footage of real Nazi rallies without any of the shouting was uncanny, to say the least, and nauseating. What Waititi wanted to accomplish, he accomplished. You want to sing along, you want to tap your feet to the familiar tune but to do so equates you with the countless people who followed Hitler's final solution and the murder of millions of Jews, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, Romani and others. Mason, Sarah E. (December 31, 2019). "Scoring Jojo Rabbit: Interview with Oscar Winning Composer, Michael Giacchino". hmcnetwork . Retrieved March 16, 2022. a b "How 'Jojo Rabbit' DP Mihai Mălaimare Uses Color to Create Perspective". No Film School. December 19, 2019. Archived from the original on October 27, 2020 . Retrieved February 23, 2021. Apart from contemporary German music, the score consisted of old-time European classical music, such as that of Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, and Erik Satie. Instead of a 100-piece orchestra, the score was composed with a 22-piece orchestra, featuring string quartet and various instruments including guitar, brass and percussion, as according to Giacchino, "the smaller the orchestra, the more emotional the sound." [2] :23–24

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Waititi described the moral of Jojo Rabbit as "about learning to think for yourself and not falling into the trap of just following the group". [69] a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab "Jojo Rabbit Production Notes" (PDF). Fox Searchlight Pictures. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 16, 2021 . Retrieved February 15, 2021.

Nordyke, Kimberly (December 4, 2019). "AFI Reveals 2019 Award Winners for Film and Television". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on January 2, 2022 . Retrieved February 23, 2022. These are the questions Waititi poses through Jojo. Choosing a little boy to present those beliefs was smart. No one else could have elicited empathy from the audience. But because Jojo is only ten, because his father is presumed dead, and because his mother (Scarlett Johansson) is in the Resistance, there is a kernel of understanding that Waititi is able to elicit. Lo del amigo imaginario no existe, el protagonista no es un niño sino un joven, la comedia brilla por su ausencia... Y mencione que es una historia enferma? Telling the authorities seemed the right thing, but... that would be betraying his family principles. Hence, he remained silent Franz, Benjamin (2019). "Jojo Rabbit". Film & History. 49 (2): 34–36. doi: 10.1353/flm.2019.0028. ISSN 1548-9922. S2CID 258058608.

Rubeo made six different versions for a paper uniform Yorki wears in the final battle scene. She made it out of paper and cardboard, with some cotton. As the war ensues, Yorki's uniform degrades, with only a vest left as the war concludes. [45] But I am Jewish, so it was impossible not to imagine myself – my grandmother or aunts – in that hidden room in that house. And that is where Jojo Rabbit is most effective: in making you think as if you were Elsa, not Jojo.

In March 2019, distributor [78] Fox Searchlight's parent company 21st Century Fox was acquired by Disney. As Jojo Rabbit featured mature themes, several Disney executives worried that releasing the film would ruin their reputation as a family-friendly studio; it was also said to be "too edgy" for Disney, as stated in Variety. However, they remained optimistic about the film's success, [79] with CEOs Bob Iger and Alan Horn arguing that it has a good message and would diversify their scope. [80] Waxman, Olivia B. (October 17, 2019). "The History Behind Jojo Rabbit and What It Was Really Like to Be in the Hitler Youth". Time. Archived from the original on February 19, 2021 . Retrieved February 19, 2021. Yamato, Jen (September 9, 2019). "Why 'Jojo Rabbit' takes aim at Nazis and Hitler in Taika Waititi's 'anti-hate' satire". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles. Archived from the original on September 20, 2019 . Retrieved September 21, 2019. With all the outcry it's provoked, you'd think Jojo Rabbit was the first time Hitler was satirised by the media. But it wasn't, and it won't be the last. Though many have tried, not all succeeded. Exterior scenes rarely used artificial lighting: scenes in the forest, for example, solely used the sun. The final sequence of the battle scene, which took five or six takes to accomplish, used three extra lights, but they were merely supplements to the sun. The scene where Jojo is having dinner with Rosie used an extensive lighting kit, mainly consisting of a chandelier and two practical lights, lighting the entirety of the setting; one of them dimmed, and tungsten lights to give the characters a softer and warmer lighting in the close-up shots. [36] Small five- watt LED lights were used as lighting for the actors in scenes at Elsa's secret room. [40] In that setting, Mălaimare decided to use a medium-bright petrol lamp as the key light, whereas a lighting was used to indicate dusk; [36] candles act as supplements. [2] :20Graham, Adam. "Review: 'Jojo Rabbit' a jubilant comic farce that takes aim at hatred". The Detroit News. Archived from the original on December 16, 2019 . Retrieved January 16, 2020.