Posted by
John on Monday, July 10, 2006 11:55:59 PM
Have you ever noticed that there are very very few good movies about
the Revolution, or the founding fathers? There's The Patriot, which I
think is a good movie, but it's not about the Revolutionary or the
Revolution. It's about family, honor, and revenge.
My personal opinion is that the Revolution is just too real, too
personal to get a good script. If there was a good script, I'm not sure
there's a director out there that could take the story with all of its
intimacy and tone down the acting and let events speak for themselves.
Hollywood only seems capable of dealing with "real" emotions when they
are negative or when they are grounded in decay or sterility. Given
something so huge, so sweeping, with such consequence as the
Revolution, it just seems beyond Hollywood.
I think the same thing is true of 9/11 and of the larger GWOT. It's gonna be tough to get it right.