"Spotlight"

[britwrit]

I haven't seen the movie. But maybe they overly focused on Michael Keaton in the trailers and thought it was going to be a The Paper sequel?

 

[BDC99]

Ruffalo plays my friend and former Phoenix colleague Mike Rezendes. Based just on the trailers, he does a very good job of catching Mike's mannerisms and vocal style. Pretty awesome, Mike, to be portrayed by the Hulk.

Have read that Keaton took a similar approach to his character

 

[Starman]

it would be fun to see what Henry Hackett would be up to 20 years later.

I see him hanging on a few more years at the Sun, replacing Alicia when she got whacked in a corporate restructuring, getting bought out himself in the early 2000s and bouncing around unemployed for a couple years, resurfacing about 2005 as a midsize daily ME and getting shoved to the side in the rush to all digital.

I think he and Marty would have had one more kid and divorced. He was one of those guys who can't leave their work at work.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I doubt any sane Catholic would be offended. The Vatican isn't. They may have left because of the frank talk of molestation.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

it would be fun to see what Henry Hackett would be up to 20 years later.

I see him hanging on a few more years at the Sun, replacing Alicia when she got whacked in a corporate restructuring, getting bought out himself in the early 2000s and bouncing around unemployed for a couple years, resurfacing about 2005 as a midsize daily ME and getting shoved to the side in the rush to all digital.

I think he and Marty would have had one more kid and divorced. He was one of those guys who can't leave their work at work.

This is what the greatest mind of his generation thinks about?

 

[DanOregon]

Randy Quaid's character would have ended up a lot like Randy Quaid writing screeds for his conspiracy-heavy website ranting about "the stuff THEY don't want you to know about."
Disagree about Hackett, he'd be teaching journalism at Stony Brook.
Alicia seems like she would have been they type to have thrived in the corporate BS and become a VP at Gatehouse.

 

[ChrisLong]

Poetic license pisses off a real-life character in this movie.
Jack Dunn had a different reaction. After seeing the film at the Loews theater across from Boston Common, he stepped onto the sidewalk and threw up. “The things they have me saying in the movie, I never said,” Dunn said. “But worse is the way they have me saying those things, like I didn’t care about the victims, that I tried to make the story go away. The dialogue assigned to me is completely fabricated and represents the opposite of who I am and what I did on behalf of victims. It makes me look callous and indifferent.”


When the truth ends up on an editing room floor - The Boston Globe

 

[Ace]

Poetic license pisses off a real-life character in this movie.
Jack Dunn had a different reaction. After seeing the film at the Loews theater across from Boston Common, he stepped onto the sidewalk and threw up. “The things they have me saying in the movie, I never said,” Dunn said. “But worse is the way they have me saying those things, like I didn’t care about the victims, that I tried to make the story go away. The dialogue assigned to me is completely fabricated and represents the opposite of who I am and what I did on behalf of victims. It makes me look callous and indifferent.”


When the truth ends up on an editing room floor - The Boston Globe

I read this and thought that it may have been the very common case of they "I never said that" even when it's on tape.

Also could be license on part of the movie (though why have a real person saying it as opposed to Composite Character?)

Or could be that Mr. Dunn thought he was being open and helpful to the victims but came across the the reporters as someone who was stonewalling and hiding things. The column does say that the school didn't know anything and didn't have files. So the reporters could have come away with a completely different idea of the meeting.

 

[TyWebb]

He's great in pretty much everything.

Although you wouldn't like him when he's angry.

 

[Ace]

Although you wouldn't like him when he's angry.

Funny how the Avengers movies are so popular. Hulk and Thor are super boring characters.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Every true story has a lot of falsehoods.

 

[TyWebb]

Funny how the Avengers movies are so popular. Hulk and Thor are super boring characters.

Agree with Thor, but I think Hulk/Bruce Banner (at least Ruffalo's version) is a super interesting character. Something about the reluctant, tortured hero.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Can you nerds stick to your own thread?

 

[Starman]

Poetic license pisses off a real-life character in this movie.
Jack Dunn had a different reaction. After seeing the film at the Loews theater across from Boston Common, he stepped onto the sidewalk and threw up. “The things they have me saying in the movie, I never said,” Dunn said. “But worse is the way they have me saying those things, like I didn’t care about the victims, that I tried to make the story go away. The dialogue assigned to me is completely fabricated and represents the opposite of who I am and what I did on behalf of victims. It makes me look callous and indifferent.”


When the truth ends up on an editing room floor - The Boston Globe

See Dan Devine in "Rudy," in which he was portrayed as a **** by one of Hollywood's leading Designated **** character actors, Chelcie Ross. Devine was depicted as being a **** who tried to hound Rudy Ruettiger off the ND football team, had to be blackmailed by the threat of a player walkout into allowing him to dress for a single game, and only grudgingly allowed him on the field for two plays, when in reality he had encouraged Ruettiger, talked him out of quitting, dressed him for five games and joined in the postgame celebration after he did play.

 

[Riptide]

See Dan Devine in "Rudy," in which he was portrayed as a **** by one of Hollywood's leading Designated **** character actors, Chelcie Ross. Devine was depicted as being a **** who tried to hound Rudy Ruettiger off the ND football team, had to be blackmailed by the threat of a player walkout into allowing him to dress for a single game, and only grudgingly allowed him on the field for two plays, when in reality he had encouraged Ruettiger, talked him out of quitting, dressed him for five games and joined in the postgame celebration after he did play.

And he said Jesus can't hit a curveball. *******!!!

 

[Jake_Taylor]

And tried to tell Norman Dale and Don Draper how to do their jobs.

 

[Starman]

I wonder if it's too late to head for Hollywood and try out for some of those Designated **** roles?

Could be a new career path!!

 

[Dick Whitman]

See Dan Devine in "Rudy," in which he was portrayed as a **** by one of Hollywood's leading Designated **** character actors, Chelcie Ross. Devine was depicted as being a **** who tried to hound Rudy Ruettiger off the ND football team, had to be blackmailed by the threat of a player walkout into allowing him to dress for a single game, and only grudgingly allowed him on the field for two plays, when in reality he had encouraged Ruettiger, talked him out of quitting, dressed him for five games and joined in the postgame celebration after he did play.

Devine's character in "Rudy" is what I thought of, as well. I understand artistic license, but it does seem ****ty to turn real people into assholes.

 

[mpcincal]

Another example is Philip Seymour Hoffman's portrayal of Art Howe in "Moneyball." Hoffman played Howe as a guy who was pretty belligerent to his GM with an attitude that I just couldn't imagine one would get with the real Howe. I mentioned this in the newsroom once, and the A&E editor, not much of a sports fan, started laughing, telling me "It's a movie, not a biography." I told him I realized that producers and directors take creative license all the time, but that it's kinda ****ty to portray a real-life person, who's still probably looks to have a job in the game, as pretty much opposite of the way he really is.

One other is "Cinderella Man," with Craig Bierko playing Max Baer, who in the movie brags about the boxer he killed in an earlier fight and suggests he's going to do the same to Russell Crowe's Jim Braddock. In real life, Baer was remorseful about the death and even helped out the late fighter's family financially.

 

[Starman]

Bierko played Max Baer, not Tunney, but I got your point.

And Art Howe was kinda a lean rangy guy, not a chunky tub of guts like Hoffman.

Devine's character in "Rudy" is what I thought of, as well. I understand artistic license, but it does seem ****ty to turn real people into assholes.

As I understand it, Devine almost sued. He had been really pretty well regarded in retirement by the ND fanbase -- he did win a NC -- and pretty much out of the blue he's turned into Snidely Whiplash. He had to spend most of the last decade of his life (he died in 2002) telling people he really didnt't try to run Rudy off the team.