tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13854278.post3919263552944147053..comments2023-09-08T05:54:51.568-07:00Comments on CineRobot: J. EdgarJoshua Blevins Peckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04675067672065084992noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13854278.post-67075824294900810882011-11-09T11:09:26.067-08:002011-11-09T11:09:26.067-08:00Staircase--I was pumped to witness that Clint snee...Staircase--I was pumped to witness that Clint sneer and stare. If only it would have been me he was doing that to!Joshua Blevins Peckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04675067672065084992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13854278.post-15087349553728730032011-11-09T10:13:16.481-08:002011-11-09T10:13:16.481-08:00A bad version of THE KING'S SPEECH would have ...A bad version of THE KING'S SPEECH would have included a lot of flashbacks to the king growing up and the various ways his stutter affected him. It would have included scenes about how he met his wife or how his family shunned him or all of that silly stuff that gets shoved into these biopics.Joshua Blevins Peckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04675067672065084992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13854278.post-70558441320708793462011-11-09T09:53:52.181-08:002011-11-09T09:53:52.181-08:00Mayor Clint! super cool! just to hear his voice mu...Mayor Clint! super cool! just to hear his voice must have been cool.hidden staircasenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13854278.post-85807792294322747832011-11-08T22:15:46.053-08:002011-11-08T22:15:46.053-08:00Yeah, because then we could just make a movie out ...Yeah, because then we could just make a movie out of them going to the loo, drinking coffee, doing the dishes, going to the loo again, going to bed after putting some night eye cream on. Wait, that has probably been done, in some experimental way... Who says what's the really important things in life, right?<br /><br />Good example, by the way with the King's Speech - and there, like you said, it's an "element" that is important, i.e. the stuttering, tied in with generally getting more self-confidence to making an important moment in history with the entire country tied in. Nice little layers all linked to the speech like balloons held by a hand). So the limit, I think, can be time or a certain element/aspect and/or both, but not to take in the entire life span(it IS really nice it's called The King's Speech and not The King's Life, isn't it?!), and certainly not every thing done in life, either.Evanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13854278.post-81486903989100241582011-11-08T16:24:19.847-08:002011-11-08T16:24:19.847-08:00Thanks for chipping in w/ your views on the biopic...Thanks for chipping in w/ your views on the biopic Eva. You read enough bios that you'd be the target audience for this sort of thing. I think the fact that most of these pictures are about famous people is what really weigh them down. <br /><br />But, say a film like the recent THE KING'S SPEECH--that's sort of a biopic, but does like you say, one element or aspect of their life. That film worked. Maybe you are onto something here with the idea that the epic ones that try to tell the story from birth to death are the ones that get buried in their own scope. I would agree with that.Joshua Blevins Peckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04675067672065084992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13854278.post-7997032913101763882011-11-08T08:18:58.195-08:002011-11-08T08:18:58.195-08:00I bet that was a tough cookie Eastwood was munchin...I bet that was a tough cookie Eastwood was munching ;)<br /><br />Ah, you are quite right about the bio picture. I don't think I'd thought about this before. I will very often go and watch one - I mean there is a few big ones every year - and come away from them with a blah feeling, and I never really thought about why. <br /><br />Yeah, it's that watered down to nothing-ness that they become in the end. The scope of a human life is too wide to be taken into one film, and they lose the art of storytelling because there isn't really a story to be told anymore - just many unrelated or more or less related stories, and you lose a point and a meaning.<br /><br />Mini-series, when they are well done, can probably do bios a lot better.<br /><br />Strange this coming from someone who almost exclusively reads biographies and is addicted to them. But a big book is a very different thing from a movie.<br /><br />I think what does often work is when they pick PART of a person's life - even a really short time span - a day or a couple of years - and tell a STORY with that, not their life - or where the famous person features only partly - remember that one with Keats - was it Bright Star? That can really work.<br /><br />I remember that awful awful Chaplin by Richard Attenborough (not Downey Jr's fault!). I can't say i liked the Aviator much either. Someone better not pick Gable or Astaire as the subject for a bio movie, I might slaughter them!<br />i read months (or perhaps years ago?) that Anne Hathaway was going play Judy Garland? I don't know if that is still going to happen or if that's dismissed.Evanoreply@blogger.com