No Right Answer: Most Deserving a Biopic
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Is the video broken? I keep getting a commercial for Maleficent, then a commercial for the Escapist where NRA is supposed to be, and back to Maleficent. Anybody else having this problem? EDIT: NVM, it's working now.
Anyways, on topic: I vote Telsa, because any Teddy Roosevelt movie will have to be bastardized to the point of fiction. I do not believe there is a single production company willing to show exactly how racist Teddy was, and how it influenced his world view, politics, and famous actions. Sure, you can argue that everyone was pretty racist (by our standards) in his day, but Roosevelt was a staunch American imperialist and promoter of "Anglo-Saxon excellence." Nobody I can think of would be willing to show that and not try to explain it away.
Anyways, on topic: I vote Telsa, because any Teddy Roosevelt movie will have to be bastardized to the point of fiction. I do not believe there is a single production company willing to show exactly how racist Teddy was, and how it influenced his world view, politics, and famous actions. Sure, you can argue that everyone was pretty racist (by our standards) in his day, but Roosevelt was a staunch American imperialist and promoter of "Anglo-Saxon excellence." Nobody I can think of would be willing to show that and not try to explain it away.
One thing I think you guys got wrong: Yeah, most people know who Roosevelt was, but outside the Internet most people just know him as that President from that time.
Basically, I think Tesla would win that because people who don't know much about Roosevelt will think, 'oh, another presidential biopic. Sounds like boring oscar bait to me.'
I could see people who don't know him reacting to a Tesla movie with 'Is that another superhero movie? It looks pretty exciting.'
Basically, I think Tesla would win that because people who don't know much about Roosevelt will think, 'oh, another presidential biopic. Sounds like boring oscar bait to me.'
I could see people who don't know him reacting to a Tesla movie with 'Is that another superhero movie? It looks pretty exciting.'
The topic of this video made it sound like it belongs on Cracked.com, where they worship both Teddy & Tesla as gods, along with Batman, James Bond, and Spider-Man.
That "I fought a Bear once" bit. That was just pure genius. As much as I would love to see a Tesla movie, that bit would have made me do a spit-take too, then make me queue up to see Teddy Roosevelt say that on the big screen.
I was pulling for Tesla but there's no shame in losing to that spit take. Well played, Kyle. Well played.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Roosevelt? Being dead doesn't make you retroactively good for any role. He would have been terrible in that role. Sorry.
Is there an editing thing going on, or are the rules for the drinking round severely broken?
Because I think if one person breaks down and starts laughing that makes the other giddy too.
If you are not allowed to try to make the opponent spit take then the one who has to drink first has a major disadvantage.
And that's very unfair, guys!!! :'(
Because I think if one person breaks down and starts laughing that makes the other giddy too.
If you are not allowed to try to make the opponent spit take then the one who has to drink first has a major disadvantage.
And that's very unfair, guys!!! :'(
I wish a Tesla movie would come out before a Teddy movie simply for the fact it would show people how much of a fact that history is written by the winners and many businessmen will take advantage of brilliant but non-business-savvy minds.(Though both need to be made on the grounds that both men were concentrated walking awesomeness.) If Edison didn't screw over Tesla, Westinghouse wouldn't have Tesla's knowledge to improve his teams early AC designs. Edison would've been even richer, and Tesla wouldn't have spent his later life broke and secluded from the outside world (giving him more time and funding to make more ingenious creations).
I know it probably wouldn't be greenlit, seeing as movie execs think audiences are idiots,[footnote]Hey you guys watch the movies you work on. What does that make you then?[/footnote] but it would be great if they did make a what-if scenario after the biopic portion of the film that detailed what hypothetically could have happened if Tesla did get the proper pay and recognition from either Edison or Westinghouse.
I know it probably wouldn't be greenlit, seeing as movie execs think audiences are idiots,[footnote]Hey you guys watch the movies you work on. What does that make you then?[/footnote] but it would be great if they did make a what-if scenario after the biopic portion of the film that detailed what hypothetically could have happened if Tesla did get the proper pay and recognition from either Edison or Westinghouse.
If it had that scene about smoking weed in the oval office in it, I'd watch a movie about Teddy Roosevelt. "I fought a bear once." LOL