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During the Awards Circuit Power Hour this week, the staff and I focus heavily on taking your questions that range from Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln to films that don’t age with grace in the cinematic world.
No set agenda today, just lively discussions.
Have a listen.
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Happy listening!
Joey Magidson(Quote) (Reply)
I’ve thought that the historical inaccuracy in Argo was intentional. It starts out really critical of the US and Hollywood and goes out of its way to inform you about the factors leading up to the Embassy attack, and then it slowly goes more and more Hollywood and cliche. It’s sort of like Adaptation, in that way – it’s a movie about Hollywood affecting the real world, and how Hollywood deals with the real world.
UBourgeois(Quote) (Reply)
Thanks for answering my question in such a detailed manner, guys! After seeing Lincoln, the only BIG historical gamble Spielberg took was with a certain character’s *ahem* living arrangements at the end of the movie. That’s not historically proven, but it was rumored.
In terms of Argo, I think that’s an interesting reading above, but I doubt it. I think it just amped up some of the drama. In my opinion, I was suspending my power of disbelief until the troops showed up to the airport and started chasing the plane down the tarmac. My mom and I were watching it and we looked at each other like, “really?” We still really enjoyed the movie, but we thought that it was a bit much. Only later did I do my research to see that all the various snaffoos they got into — the president canceling the operation + Mendez’s Hail Mary, the missing tickets, the phone call to Arkin and Goodman, and the worker showing the airport security the storyboards and talking about them in Farsi (in my opinion the best and most nail-biting scene in the movie) — were all Hollywood fluff, not to mention the fact that Alan Arkin’s character was invented for the film. They were still entertaining and examples of decent filmmaking, I think (except for the tarmac thing–if the military was there, Iran would have shot a rocket at it in like four seconds).
It’s interesting that you guys brought up the Social Network and King’s Speech. Those were two movies that completely revolutionized my thinking about biopics. Both of them were extremely altered in terms of history, but I, too, decided to take them as pieces of fiction rather than as documentaries. It took me a long time to warm up to Jesse Eisenberg because I knew he was nothing like Mark Zuckerberg, and the same goes for Timberlake, but in the end I enjoyed it as a cautionary tale about money, success, and friendship ala Citizen Kane only for the 21st century. I don’t care who the real people are/were. Not anymore at least.
Anyway, thanks for the answer, guys. I love your podcast. It’s my single favorite part of the website now, and I’ve been coming to you all four eight years.
Dan(Quote) (Reply)
Thanks for the kind words and questions. Keep em coming
Clayton Davis(Quote) (Reply)
I’m glad someone else thinks that Heath Ledger wouldn’t have been a lock had he been alive. It wouldn’t have happened.
steve(Quote) (Reply)
I think I’d give a little more credence to UBourgeois’ argument had Argo not treated everyone to a history lesson and a “Based on a True Story” title card before the film started. I had no problem with the liberties the film took but its slightly ridiculous for them to still want to claim being a true story. Just look at how they treated the Canda in the film as nothing more than a cover for the operation, when they were much more involved than pictured. That’s fine to do in a fiction film, but maybe it should say “Inspired or derived by/from a true story”?
I don’t think that Lincoln will have problems like these though. Dorris Kearns Goodwin + Tony Kushner + Spielberg is a hard group to try and attack on lack of attention to detail regarding historical accuracy lol
Terence Johnson(Quote) (Reply)