Welcome to Marwen - And now, I am making your silver pants blue!

[Gordon Cole]

Well...what?

Small Soldiers fantasy scenes? One-legged Janelle Monae? Neo-Nazis? (As well as a groan-inducing "Punch Nazis guise" ending?) Is anyone actually looking forward to this schmaltzy nightmare?

(P.S. I know there's already a documentary about this guy. It's a way better movie than this'll probably be.)

 

[Florence]

Wait, they're remaking fucking documentaries now?

 

[UnKillShredDur]

Getting some serious Chris disappearing into his own universe vibes from this, which begs the question.... Chris Chan oscar bait movie, when?

 

[Gordon Cole]

Getting some serious Chris disappearing into his own universe vibes from this, which begs the question.... Chris Chan oscar bait movie, when?

IIRC, the real life dude flirted with being a tranny, so maybe we're getting it with this.

(Probably not, but I can dream.)

 

[HomeAloneTwo]

This is why we don't get an Office reunion special.

 

[An Ghost]

Just all over the place tonally. “Violence isn’t the answer, except for when it inspires you.”

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

So Steve Carrell has gone into the "shitty inspirational based on true events" movie phase of his career?

That sucks.

It didn't work out well for Robin Williams.

 

[Quijibo69]

Grown Man Plays With Barbie Dolls: The Movie

 

[millais]

What is the point of remaking the documentary into a movie?

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

The opening for this has been pushed back from November to December. No clue what this signifies, other than that it is going up against some tentpoles.

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[Secret Asshole]

The documentary was really good. He was poised to be an excellent artist before these people kicked the shit out of him. He basically lost all memory, motor function, had to re-learn how to read and do things. He was a cross-dresser and straight btw, not a tranny. He joked with these guys, made Nazi jokes, then told them he wore nylon and heels because he was drunk. They beat him to death, basically, its a miracle he survived. He woke up and thought it was 1984.

And then this shit happened:

He was angry and in pain but at least the therapy was slowly working. He was learning how to walk again, how to talk, “how to wipe myself after a poo”. His hands were shaking less. But then his insurance company telephoned him. “The guy said: ‘You have to come up with $157 a month.’ I said: ‘I can’t afford that.’ So the asshole on the other end said: ‘Well, I guess you don’t have therapy any more!’ And he hung up.”

He was super pissed, filled with anger and then built Marwencol.

Hogancamp takes me to see Marwencol. On our way we pass his old television. Sometimes at night, he says, he watches his wedding videos and thinks, “Wow, she’s hot.” Since the beating, he doesn’t remember his wife at all – not a moment of their five-year marriage. He doesn’t remember his life before or after his marriage either. He only knows what others have told him – that he was born and raised in upstate New York, scraped through school, spent five years in the US Navy, left with an honourable discharge, met his wife, became an alcoholic, and ended up alone. By the time he was attacked he was drinking nearly two litres of whiskey a day.

“I needed help from God,” he says. “And so he sent five horsemen.”

We head outside. “Marwencol was solely made up so I could kill those five guys,” Hogancamp tells me. “I had no way to do it in real life. I played it over in my head. I’d get caught. I’d go to prison. I’d get the chair. The first time I killed all five of them, I felt a little bit better. That violent hatred and anger subsided a little.”

“How many times have you killed them in all?” I ask him.

“Oh, over and over,” he replies. “For 12 years now. I’ve killed them every which way. I’ve killed them in ways Satan himself hasn’t even thought of.”

In one photo story – called The Giant of Marwencol – the five SS men are torturing and humiliating two women because they’re refusing to give up “Hogie’s” location. (Hogie is the action figure based on Hogancamp.) The Nazis are whipping the women. Their backs are streaked with blood. But suddenly a giant hand reaches in – the real Hogancamp’s hand – and gently touches the SS men. “With a touch,” the caption reads, “the bodies of the SS dropped where they stood. He took their souls from their bodies and sent them to hell.”

But this is an unusual photo story: most of the time the SS men are killed by the women of the town. “The only species on Earth that haven’t attacked me are women,” Hogancamp says. “And when they heard I had over 300 pairs of high heels they said: ‘We’ll take you in our tribe.’”

(In real life, the five attackers got off pretty lightly. Two got probation. Another two were sentenced to five years in prison, and the ringleader got nine years.)

So uh, yeah. He didn't forgive his attackers at all. He killed them over and over again. Somehow I don't think the movie will capture this guy's anger and rage. The story is inspirational, but it carries with it a pretty large amount of rage. Nowadays, he wants nothing to do with people, he lives alone and that's good enough for him.

 

[8777BB5]

I forget what Kid's show it was, but I remember there was some 80s/90s animated kid show that had a little girl who discovered her neighbor's backyard garden railroad and town that he'd built to remember the good times in his life (He'd moved out of the town after his wife died due to the crime rate) Anyway the girl writes a paper about it for a contest which gets published in the newspaper and results in nearly the entire town coming over to see the guy's layout. When he tells them it's not opened to the public, they get angry and force their way in. They then proceed to wreck the layout before all running out when the guy threatens to call the cops. The man then tells the girl "I wish I'd never shown you this layout because you destroyed it."

I say this because I know there are people who are going to see this movie and want to go bother the guy, thinking he's how he'll be whimsical like in the movie and then when they find out how he is they'll get mad and most likely try to destroy it in revenge.