Posted on 12/14/2014 12:18:46 PM PST by C19fan
Come back, John Huston, all is forgiven. When the grizzled Hollywood veteran was attached to direct the 1982 film version of Broadway's mammoth hit Annie, which had fetched a record sum for screen rights, much collective head-scratching ensued. Nothing in Huston's output indicated an affinity for family-friendly movie musicals. Pundits were no less mystified once they saw the film, which suggested an agonized disconnect between director and material. Yet audiences who were kids back then regard it as a classic, playing fast and loose with that term. Maybe today's tweens will feel similar affection for this misconceived contemporary update, but they needn't be encouraged.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
On halloween night at midnight, if you look into a bathroom mirror and say “Black Annie” “Black Annie” “Black Annie” you can see hollywood profits take a huge fall.
I’m ready for Disney to do a remake of “Song of the South” that won’t “offend” anybody with a white guy as Uncle Remus. I imagine we’d still see a lot of whining and tantrums from people complaining that white guys can’t sing.
Probably best it was filmed before ferguson so they could insert some sort of protest scene, like a musical number called “gentle giant” or “I can’t breathe”...
“I can’t breathe,
White mans got me!
He say I’m guilty of a fe-lo-ny...”
Take it rich white guy warbucks...
There was once a delightful little stage play called THE WIZ.
Then “they” turned it into a major movie with pimps and hos designed to appeal to Ghetto kids.
Some remakes just don’t need to be made, because they don’t bring anything new or worth keeping to the table. It’s a big expensive gamble to make such a movie. Surly the actors could see how this was or was not coming together, but some directors refuse to listen to their actors. Alfred Hitchcock often came close to saying that he treated actors like sheep and cattle.
That was the movie I remember. I forget it some success on stage.
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LOL! I actually cant breath because that was so funny!
Will need more gays though.
Jamie Foxx can shove it. Racist.
Quite a difference between the Broadway play and the movie.
http://www.thewizthemusical.com/productions/bway75/photos_zoom.php?var=1448
I watched "The Meteor Man" the other day. It was pretty funny. Stupid but funny at times. It was an all black cast attempt at a superhero parody.
Looks like Warbuvks is black, too.
All righty, then.
Is that Michael Jackson holding the dog?
The Wiz is the worst movie ever made.
no that’s dianna ross, michael is the one on the far right
after watching about 50 black singers trying out for american idol or competing use songs from The Wiz over the years.. I decided one day that maybe I had missed something... and sought it out...
well... I an concur that yep, The Wiz is actually one of the worst movies ever made!
I’m waiting for the all white version of “A Raisin In The Sun.”
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