It's clear from the get-go that Joshua adores his dad, and that the feeling's mutual. Even though the circumstances themselves are far from it. Luckier still, his father manages to hide the horrors of the extermination camp from him by pretending the whole affair is an elaborate, if difficult, game. Chances are that he'll be killed there (in reality, most young children were sent right to the gas chambers from the transports), but thanks to his father's quick thinking and a whole lot of luck, he manages to survive. Taken from his sixth birthday party by the Nazis, he's sent to a concentration camp with his family. (What? Don't think they were so lucky? Sure, they're dead, but now they don't have to be in any of those horrible sequels, do they?)īut perhaps the luckiest kid in movie history is Joshua (Giosué) Orefice. And all of the kids from The Nightmare on Elm Street get good and murdered. Short Round never once has a crazy cultist try to rip his heart out. The entire Goonies crew manages to survive a booby-trapped pirate cave crawling with hardened criminals.
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