NO.
Also, in the randomly connecting fictional characters to real-life people column, Why McCain is Thanking Jude Law for playing the title character in Sky Captain: The World of Tomorrow.
Bob Tourtellotte, man... WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?
Dakota Fanning is AN ACTOR. This movie is a FICTION based on a FICTION.
Dakota Fanning is not Viola Gregg Liuzzo. She's not Ann Dunham. Heck, even the fictional character she portrays is a far cry from them. It's an insult to even vaguely imply they are some how similar.
And does anyone else find it hilariously sad that he only heaps praise upon the solitary white lead. And for what... being the decent, curious, human beings we should all be by default? ...In a film chock full of black characters courageously facing ten-times more?
...Yeah.
Way to lend credence to a very wrong assertion from the previous posting.
I'm torn about seeing this. On one hand, I want to support the actors and director of this project. On the the other hand? I'm tired of the Captain-Save-A-Minority movies...starring white people.
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Hey cleo,
Well, I think we should treat the movie on its own merits. One critic's dumb response shouldn't stop us from supporting good black actors like Queen Latifah and Sophie Okonedo, I don't know so much about Jennifer Hudson although she did pretty well playing a character close to herself in DreamGirls.
Anyways, I think you called it right on how stupid the review was, but maybe the movie itself will be better than the trite stereotypical awfulness of the main theme.
Morgan Freeman is a great actor and he did a good job in Driving Miss Daisy (despite, not because of the script).
On a side note, my personal wish is to see Sophie Okenodo get more starring roles. I hope she doesn't get shoe-horned into "pretty light-skinned girl" parts or side-lined into character actor walk-ons like Jennifer Lewis.
@fa-ikaika
You just hit two of the reasons I want to see this, Queen and Sophie. The other is Gina Prince-Bythewood.
And Sophie started out as "pretty African tribal princess" in Ace Ventura 2 of all things. No, I'm not kidding.
But since then, she's made interesting choices as far as movie roles go.
Her next project is playing Nancy in a new Brit adaptation of Oliver Twist.
I do love Jennifer Lewis, but only on stage or TV. She's got that stagey thing that I'm not that fond of seeing in a "realistic" piece.
There are four musicians-turned-actresses who can all act the pants off of that little girl. They didn't even set out to be actresses, they were ALL successful in other streams of entertainment and then successfully made the crossover to big screen acting.
There's also a little girl. She made movies like War of the Worlds, I am Sam, and Uptown Girls, playing the same role (little girl with attitude and lots of brains) and now she gets top billing.
Maybe her PR rep is going crazy making phone calls trying to get people to forget about the little-girl-rape-fest known as Hounddog. This is bullshit.
@el gringo
I'm right with you on the choice the writer made when he picked one actor to focus on.
However, that's three musicians turned actors. Sophie came out of the London stage.
I'm angry Dakota passed up The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordan for War of the Worlds and the chance to work with (scream for) Spielburg. Ugh.
Right, right, right. Wrong about Sophie.
I'm going to look up TGWLTG right now and see what we missed out on for that piece of junk remake.
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