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I logged onto this, not sure what I would even write about. And, I noticed for the last few days, the advertisement for the Oliver Stone movie W.
And, I have a lot of problems with this. No, not our website having pop-up ads. But, Oliver Stone. And, a movie about the President.
I'm not a fan of George W. Bush. But, just as I wasn't thrilled with Jimmy Carter talking negatively about this administration, I don't like someone doing a movie about a sitting President. It seems like there should be a lawsuit there. Especially if things in it aren't true. And, I have to imagine, a lot of it was "written" by Oliver Stone. They couldn't possibly know a lot of the conversation in when reporters aren't around.
I once interviewed a guy named J. Randall Johnston. He wrote the movie THE DOORS, which Stone then re-wrote, and "added" fictional things.
Stone made up a story about Morrison smacking his girlfriend around, locking her in a closet, and setting the house on fire. It never happened.
Morrison quitting a film class at UCLA. Didn't happen. In fact, all four Doors (that sounds like a car) graduated.
And, it was J. Randall that had to answer to all the musicians and friends of Morrison, that hated the film.
Oliver Stone made up stuff in his film about Nixon (which I enjoyed).
I never saw JFK, but he made a few things up in that. The most important being a complete fictional character, that he uses to tie things up conveniently.
In one of Roger Ebert's books, he says that JFK is one of his Top 100 films of all-time. And he says that he doesn't mind it being fictionalized, because it's "just a movie". Yet, I remember him reviewing a film on someone like Medgar Evers. And he complained about things not being accurate. I'd love to ask him why it's okay to do that sometimes, and not others.
If you are making a film about a real person, I think you should be as accurate as possible. Now, obviously when Ron Howard is making a movie about a fighter from the 30s, he'll have to write dialog between the characters. But, when the "bad guy" in the movie has relatives, who in this case DID complain that their father wasn't portrayed realistically, it makes you wonder.
Oliver Stone has only made a few movies I liked. Unless this film gets amazing reviews, I'm not going to bother with it.
I logged onto this, not sure what I would even write about. And, I noticed for the last few days, the advertisement for the Oliver Stone movie W.
And, I have a lot of problems with this. No, not our website having pop-up ads. But, Oliver Stone. And, a movie about the President.
I'm not a fan of George W. Bush. But, just as I wasn't thrilled with Jimmy Carter talking negatively about this administration, I don't like someone doing a movie about a sitting President. It seems like there should be a lawsuit there. Especially if things in it aren't true. And, I have to imagine, a lot of it was "written" by Oliver Stone. They couldn't possibly know a lot of the conversation in when reporters aren't around.
I once interviewed a guy named J. Randall Johnston. He wrote the movie THE DOORS, which Stone then re-wrote, and "added" fictional things.
Stone made up a story about Morrison smacking his girlfriend around, locking her in a closet, and setting the house on fire. It never happened.
Morrison quitting a film class at UCLA. Didn't happen. In fact, all four Doors (that sounds like a car) graduated.
And, it was J. Randall that had to answer to all the musicians and friends of Morrison, that hated the film.
Oliver Stone made up stuff in his film about Nixon (which I enjoyed).
I never saw JFK, but he made a few things up in that. The most important being a complete fictional character, that he uses to tie things up conveniently.
In one of Roger Ebert's books, he says that JFK is one of his Top 100 films of all-time. And he says that he doesn't mind it being fictionalized, because it's "just a movie". Yet, I remember him reviewing a film on someone like Medgar Evers. And he complained about things not being accurate. I'd love to ask him why it's okay to do that sometimes, and not others.
If you are making a film about a real person, I think you should be as accurate as possible. Now, obviously when Ron Howard is making a movie about a fighter from the 30s, he'll have to write dialog between the characters. But, when the "bad guy" in the movie has relatives, who in this case DID complain that their father wasn't portrayed realistically, it makes you wonder.
Oliver Stone has only made a few movies I liked. Unless this film gets amazing reviews, I'm not going to bother with it.