Movie about Forrest?

[Jojotater]

Has there ever been a movie about Forrest?

 

[Nathanb1]

No, more's the pity. Although I suspect he's been the model for a few fictional characters.

 

[Nathanb1]

I take that back. Forrest Gump.

 

[diane]

George Lucas was just complaining that he had a great movie about the Tuskegee airmen but couldn't get anyone in Hollywood to finance it because the cast was all black. Good grief! Can you imagine trying to get someone to finance a movie about Forrest? Sure would like to write the script for it, though!

 

[PartywithArty]

One could only wish...

 

[Jojotater]

Diane, I tell you what: I will call George Lucas and tell him to make a movie about my novel and we will have one with Forrest in it. Tuskegee Airmen has been done before. We want Forrest.

 

[Union_Buff]

George Lucas was just complaining that he had a great movie about the Tuskegee airmen but couldn't get anyone in Hollywood to finance it because the cast was all black. Good grief! Can you imagine trying to get someone to finance a movie about Forrest? Sure would like to write the script for it, though!

I'm sure Larry could have written a really cracking script about NBF and his Civil War escapades Diane

 

[diane]

Oh, yes! Just the battle for Nashville and the retreat therefrom would make a really terrific movie, don't you think? And Larry had all the good stuff on that!

 

[Rob9641]

Sorry, but Forrest has a very limited appeal market-wise. No market, no investors. Lucas had to finance Tuskeegee Airmen himself. Ted Turner doesn't finance CW movies anymore.

 

[ole]

I'd watch it. I wouldn't invest in it. Only us freakazoids would have interest in it. Who else knows who NBF was? He was not Josie Wales.

 

[diane]

I'm not too sure about that! I've always thought Josey Wales had a lot of Forrest in him - a little tip of Clint's hat to him. (Especially Josey's hat!)

 

[Lazy Bayou]

I'd watch it... over and over and over and ...

 

[Nathanb1]

I'd watch it if it wasn't a hatchet job. I suspect if one were made now it would be so anti-Forrest I would throw up.

John Ford should have done it. I've always suspected the Confederate commander in Horse Soldiers was supposed to resemble him (although he wasn't anywhere in the vicinity when Grierson made his raid)

 

[Freddy]

George Lucas was just complaining that he had a great movie about the Tuskegee airmen but couldn't get anyone in Hollywood to finance it because the cast was all black. Good grief! Can you imagine trying to get someone to finance a movie about Forrest? Sure would like to write the script for it, though!

Well, they made another one about the Tuskegee Airmen calling it Red Tails.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485985/

 

[Nathanb1]

Well, they made another one about the Tuskegee Airmen calling it Red Tails.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485985/

They're sure not promoting it as such. There's not a mention of Tuskegee in the trailer. One of my kids asked me (I was pretty proud he remembered them!) if it was about them!

 

[Freddy]

They did in the link I provided.

"A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard"

 

[Nathanb1]

Well, good. We saw the preview in the theater on Christmas Day and not a mention--even though we certainly assumed it was about them.

 

[ole]

The "Red Tails" is certain to be a treacly story. That the Tuskeegee airmen earned the right to be exceptional pilots has been played to death. So we have black men doing extraordinary things in an airplane. What is new there? They were incapbable of doing extraordinary things before that?

 

[cash]

Has there ever been a movie about Forrest?

"The Birth of a Nation?"

 

[Nathanb1]

The "Red Tails" is certain to be a treacly story. That the Tuskeegee airmen earned the right to be exceptional pilots has been played to death. So we have black men doing extraordinary things in an airplane. What is new there? They were incapbable of doing extraordinary things before that?

Not just that. They were really having a cheerleading session before they got in the planes? Really? It's not a football field. It was so....stereotypical. If I were black, I would be terribly offended. Those men had more dignity than that.