04-07-2013, 03:44 PM
Trumbo was based on the play of the same name written by Christopher Trumbo about his father, Hollywood Screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo. Trumbo was black listed in 1947 and couldn't write in Hollywood under his name for over a decade. He was eventually rehabilitated or at least given his name back when Kirk Douglas hired him to write the screenplay for Spartacus.
First off, it was amazing to see how many great films Trumbo worked on. He wrote everything from Roman Holiday to Papillion. Unfortunately, he wrote a lot of these films under assumed names or through the use of fronts. He even won an academy award under an assumed name and couldn't pick it up until late in the 1970's.
The film felt stagey. Actors were brought in to read Trumbo's letters to various people, from producers to, and CF and DM will like this, ATT. But it felt very staged. All the actors wore blue shirts and they had props. Some of them were using their actor gimmicks and it felt odd to hear the words. They had some big time actors, too. Liam Neeson, David Straithern, Donal Sutherland, and Brian Dennehy to name a few. Sutherland was the oddest, because he was a friend of Trumbo. So, sometimes he was on screen as Sutherland talking about Trumbo. And sometimes he was Trumbo.
It was a great intro about the blacklist and the Hollywood Ten. But it felt over produced. The actors got in the way of what they were trying to say.
First off, it was amazing to see how many great films Trumbo worked on. He wrote everything from Roman Holiday to Papillion. Unfortunately, he wrote a lot of these films under assumed names or through the use of fronts. He even won an academy award under an assumed name and couldn't pick it up until late in the 1970's.
The film felt stagey. Actors were brought in to read Trumbo's letters to various people, from producers to, and CF and DM will like this, ATT. But it felt very staged. All the actors wore blue shirts and they had props. Some of them were using their actor gimmicks and it felt odd to hear the words. They had some big time actors, too. Liam Neeson, David Straithern, Donal Sutherland, and Brian Dennehy to name a few. Sutherland was the oddest, because he was a friend of Trumbo. So, sometimes he was on screen as Sutherland talking about Trumbo. And sometimes he was Trumbo.
It was a great intro about the blacklist and the Hollywood Ten. But it felt over produced. The actors got in the way of what they were trying to say.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit
