Which biopics of famous people would you like to see?
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t_smitts — 19 years ago(April 01, 2007 08:53 AM)
Some of the people here should look up IMDB more. Many of the people mentioned already have biopics made or in the making. (Babe Ruth, Lincoln)
Me?
I'd like to see
Buster Keaton
Charles Lightoller (look him up on wikipedia to see who he was)
D.B. Cooper -
bubbleboy7 — 18 years ago(July 20, 2007 01:27 AM)
Mickey Rourke and James Dean. I know the Dean one has been done several times, but I'm talking about a big screen release with a big star like Leonardo DiCaprio. Maybe have Scorsese direct it. The only one that came close in my mind was James Franco's portrayal.
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vinidici — 18 years ago(January 03, 2008 01:35 PM)
It seems I'm the only one who's thought about how great it would be to have Jimmy Stewart portrayed in a biopic!
This man had a real and full life even OUTSIDE of making movies (most of them "purdy durn good, fella" as he might put it. He was a war hero (and NEVER bragged about it) and a poet and a good friend, and frequent guest of, Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show."
Stewart, I think, was conservative in his social and political leanings but it is interesting to note that his best friend was Henry Fonda, who was very much a liberal -
NewHemingway — 18 years ago(January 05, 2008 11:42 AM)
John Wayne
A lot of flaws and political incorecctness balanced with honesty and loyalty. Kind of has the same marital problems Chaplin had and struggled with some of the same battles (military service being one of them). -
sinunponi — 18 years ago(January 11, 2008 02:36 AM)
It would be nice to see a biopic made of one of the great philosophers, like Sokrates, Aristotle or maybe Nietzsche. It's very hard for me to understand why nobody ever makes films about philosophers.
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vinidici — 18 years ago(January 17, 2008 08:30 PM)
Seriously? Probably because a "Socrates" or "Nietzche" or "Voltaire" or "Emmanuel Kant" flick or any other feature covering the life of some great philosopher would tank at the box office!
I wouldn't be surprised, though, if men like Socrates or Voltaire have been characters in period movies. But neither of those guys could carry a successful picture on their own.
Philosophers, by and large, have nuanced ideas that don't translate all that well to the big screen. We go to the movies to be ENTERTAINED. If we want to be EDUCATED on what Socrates, Aristotle, etc., believed and taught and how their ideas shaped civilization, we can read a book, watch a documentary or take a college course.
That being said, your idea might work better as a TV series on PBS or the History Channel. A season's worth of hour-long episodes; each episode a mini-biopic of one of the "Great Thinkers" -
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lexid523 — 18 years ago(January 22, 2008 05:02 PM)
Well, Socrates
was
in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" (lol).
Also, Voltaire was in the beginning of "Ridicule". Though, I really think that a Voltaire movie could be pretty entertaining he lived through a really volatile period in France (until the Revolution) and he was a pretty big smart-ass, which is always a big draw.
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rickamortis — 17 years ago(August 13, 2008 05:03 PM)
Robin Williams as Emperor Norton the 1st
Keifer Suthrland as Wilhelm Reich (Donald played him in the music video based on Reich by Kate Bush; Cloudbusting).
Charles Babbage
Jules Verne
Rudyard Kipling
Roald Dahl
Salvador Dali
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