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The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
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All of the actors involved did a fine job.
I love you, Bryan, more than anyone.
And I desperately want to hug your dad bod.
But maybe choose a better script next time, bud.
(really just wanted to be able to end one sentence
with the word "bod," and the next with the word "bud")
Also, when Louie was like, "It's cancer."
And Walter was like, "what..? Jesus!"
I was like, "no, Walter, no.
It's you that's got cancer.
This isn't right.
This doesn't feel right."
They love to make this shit where the CPUSA was just a bunch of well-meaning saps because Hollywood types love imagining themselves sacrificing for a cause but could never imagine actually wining anything.
A glorified costume party, perhaps. But I'll give TRUMBO the extra half star simply for somehow restoring Kirk Douglas to his early 40s and casting him to play himself. What kind of movie magic is that? Seriously, if Dean O'Gorman can't find work after this, I'll pay him everything I've got just to walk around my house and look and talk to me like Kirk Douglas.
There is something fascinating about watching actors portray real-life performers and seeing the choices they make. Michael Stuhlbarg as Edward G. Robinson, for example, and David James Elliott as John Wayne, embody the spirit of these men without ever really "playing" them. If nobody addressed them by name, you might not even know who they're supposed to be. Meanwhile, Bryan Cranston plays the film's least recognizable figure but does so in such a mannered and precise way that he seems to struggle against himself to make the character truly flesh and blood.
Just give me 2 hours of Bryan Cranston smoking and typewriting in a bathtub and I'm happy.
Also, am I the only person on the planet who kinda loved this? The reviews on here aren't exactly flattering...
BUT DAMN THE REVIEWS! DAMN THE HOLLYWOOD PRESS! AND DAMN BRYAN CRANSTON FOR BEING SO DAMN FANTASTIC! DAMMIT!
You can call me crazy...you can call me a communist...but one thing you can't call me is a crazy communist. I swear I'm not. I also swear that I think this film is much better than people give it credit for, but you don't believe that either, do you?
La actividad favorita de Hollywwod: hacer miserable la vida de la gente y después hacerles un homenaje.
lronically, in a film about screenwriting, the screenplay was the weakest part by far. I enjoyed the film but it's far from a great film. The pacing was all over the place with the first half feeling more like a documentary than a film and then the overarching story not really taking shape until the second half. The performances are good, but it's not like anything truly powerful happens that Adewale and Cranston's performances seem significant.
John Goodman is great though... "I got into this business for the money and the pussy. And their falling off the trees!" and I'm bummed he wasn't in it more because his character made the plot feel more involved. Same with Elliott as John…
I've never really understood the point in disliking celebrities because of their personal lives. If they make good movies for entertainment value, what's the point in talking about their personal lives? Sure, Tarantino's a jerkwad sometimes, but I still love seeing his films. As long as the films they make don't get obnoxiously political, I could care less if they're straight or gay, Communist or Republican.
We've definitely come a long way from the Blacklist of the 1940's, when certain people's opinions were viewed as volatile and dangerous to the wellbeing of the country. There's a ridiculous sense of paranoia that looms about these characters, making me wonder at all why they really care. At the center of everyone is…
TIFF 2015 Film #7
Reason for pick : interested in subject
Back when I was in grade 7 or so, I happened to pick up the book Johnny Got His Gun from the school library. All I remember was that it affected me more than anything I had read up to that point. Trumbo’s realization of a war veteran who returns with little more than his mind intact was absolutely heartbreaking. Isolated from the world except for a small spot on his neck that still had some sensitivity to touch.
In some ways, his 1938 novel was an odd kind of foreshadowing of what would follow in 1947 when he was cut-off from his livelihood by the House Of Un-American…