...makes you wonder if Bruckheimer is following that media "responsibility" they keep talking about in regards to the Mohammed cartoons...
It's a movie. It's fantasy. The author might just as well suck it up, because Hollywood doesn't care.
They stink at acting and directing too.
bump for publicity
It all depends on how distorting facts makes you feel. If it makes you feel good, the end justifies the means. If it makes you feel bad, it's a lie.
This, from an apparently literate and educated person.
Absolutely. Imagine doing a movie of the ACLU and accusing them of conspiring with nefarious elements to undermine the US and ...oh well if one can only dream!!!
Did the hire James Frey as a screen writer?
Not mentioned in the article is the fact that Haskins had been coach at Texas Western for 5 years, I think; he was not in his first year as portrayed in the movie.
And yet, I don't object to either film because I feel the first is a shattering cinematic masterpiece, and the second is a pretty good thriller that looks at what I think is a hard and unpopular truth about the unending cycle of violence in the Middle East. In both cases, for me, the end justified the means.
And then he says this of "Glory Road"
On the other hand, I have no trouble being offended by a movie that makes up race-baiting incidents and portrays Seattle as a hotbed of Selma-style racism in 1966. So, like so many things in life, I suppose it just depends on your point of view. When the movie untruth slaps you in the face, it's not artistic license: It's a lie.
So it's a lie when blacks are portrayed wrongly but it's OK for the Jewish events to be portrayed wrongly. DISGUSTING!
Thanks for the post. My husband and I thought about going to see this movie, but now I believe we will save our money. Films like this keep us divisive as a country. Many will watch this and believe it is all true. :(
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Officials at Texas A&M-Commerce University want Walt Disney Co. and the makers of "Glory Road" to apologize for inaccurately linking their school to some of the film's most racially charged scenes.
The movie chronicled the history-making Texas Western Miners, who won the 1966 NCAA title with the first all-black starting lineup in a championship game. It included a "completely false" depiction of a game against East Texas State University, the name of Texas A&M-Commerce at the time, spokeswoman Lorraine Pace said Friday.
In the movie, East Texas fans are shown throwing drinks and popcorn and yelling racial slurs at Texas Western, now known as the University of Texas at El Paso, during a regular-season game in Commerce, Texas. A scene after the game shows a vandalized hotel room, with racial slurs written on the walls in red.
"It was just too awful for words," Pace said.
It never happened, Pace said.
According to UTEP athletic department archives, the Miners played the Lions in El Paso on Dec. 9, 1965. The Miners won 73-51. The Miners won the game in the movie, but the margin was much closer.
"These events - specifically depicted as taking place at ETSU and in the Commerce area - are completely fabricated and go beyond the realms of literary license and decency," A&M-Commerce President Keith McFarland said in a statement.
Though the Jerry Bruckheimer film debuted last month, university officials waited to verify the facts of the game before seeking an apology, Pace said.
The university has asked Disney, Bruckheimer, director James Gartner and the screenplay writers to apologize for the scenes.
Officials with Disney and Bruckheimer's film company weren't immediately available for comment.
The Texas A&M-Commerce complaint isn't the first. Before the movie's nationwide release, supporters of legendary Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp complained that the movie unfairly cast Rupp as a racist.
The Miners, coached by Don Haskins, beat Rupp's all-white Kentucky team 72-65 in the championship game. The movie was adapted from Haskins' book about the season.