Jojo Rabbit VFX Breakdown

  Jojo Rabbit VFX Breakdown

Jojo Rabbit is a 2019 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi, based on Christine Leunens’s book Caging Skies.


Box office: 6.46 crores USD Awards: Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, 

Johannes "Jojo" Betzler is a young boy living in Nazi Germany during the later stages of World War II with his mother, Rosie. His absent father is supposedly serving on the Italian Front but has lost all contact, and his older sister Inge has recently died of influenza. The jingoistic Jojo often talks with his imaginary friend, Adolf, a supportive and buffoonish version of Adolf Hitler.

Now aged ten, it is time for Jojo to join the Deutsches Jungvolk. He attends his first Hitler Youth training camp with his best friend, Yorki, run by the one-eyed Wehrmacht Captain Klenzendorf and assisted by Fräulein Rahm, where Jojo receives a knife. When Jojo is ordered to kill a rabbit by older Hitler Youth members, he tries to release it. The older boys snap its neck, and Jojo runs off crying after the other boys taunt him with the name "Jojo Rabbit". After a pep talk from Adolf, Jojo returns, stealing a Stielhandgranate and throwing it without permission in an effort to prove his bravery. It bounces off a tree and explodes at his feet, leaving him with facial and body scars and a slight limp. After Jojo recovers, Rosie, his mother, coerces Klenzendorf, demoted after the incident, to make her son feel included, despite his injuries. Jojo is given small tasks such as spreading propaganda leaflets throughout the town, and collecting scrap for the war effort.