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Post by sukkafu on Jan 27, 2003 17:43:28 GMT -5
aba, i know what a fro and a mother are, but what are fro-mothers? ;D
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Post by earthangel on Jan 27, 2003 18:31:31 GMT -5
What? That movie isn't 100 % accurate? Well thats my whole belief system right there! Sike, I'm just playin. But at one time it was. Thank God for me wanting to know more and more. Cause now I do! And there's still plenty where that came from. My dad always looks at certain parts of the movie and says, "Uh unh, there's gotta be more to it than that." I'm on a quest to find out just how much more!  |
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Post by sukkafu on Jan 27, 2003 23:03:51 GMT -5
it's like this for me- i now know 10,000 % more than i started with last spring, but i now know 1% of what i could know!  |
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Post by DramaLJDiva on Jan 28, 2003 14:43:14 GMT -5
Mike, "It Ain't Raining"....another one of those great RAIN songs!
Here's how I was affected by the movie. I thought that it was pretty much a documentary on the life of the Temptations until I found the iMusic Tempts board. It surprised me to find out that certain things were not true. After reading Otis' book and Tony Turner's book, I found out more things. It surprised me that they'd go and make a movie like that which is supposed to be a documentary on the Tempts' life and have so many inaccuracies. Now I feel that the movie would have been much different had there been more input from "others" who were there at that time.
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Post by iratherlikeme on Jan 28, 2003 15:25:24 GMT -5
They'll be glad to hear that!  |
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Post by tdallasw on Jan 28, 2003 15:29:45 GMT -5
Diva - Suzanne dePasse productions seem to allow their screenwriters to take a great deal of poetic license with their scripts. Remember 'The Jacksons - An American Dream'? I don't put all the blame on Otis... he wrote his book - but didn't write the screenplay for the movie. I know it had to have his approval as well, but I'd still believe the final script was left up to the so-called production 'experts'  |
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Post by Aba21 on Jan 28, 2003 16:04:27 GMT -5
Td...I have said the same thing. Otis was not there for the daily screening of the movie. I know for a fact that once it was "IN THE CAN" they were not going to change it. We are talking about a tv movie not a mega bucks blockbuster here! ;D creative consultant(Otis) is not the Directer or the Producer. He may have been an associate producer but he did not have final say on the final cuts.
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Post by kalisa2 on Jan 28, 2003 18:07:12 GMT -5
WHAT?!?! You guys are destroying my "Otis is to blame for EVERYthing" bubble!! Not fair  ;D |
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Post by Aba21 on Jan 28, 2003 21:07:18 GMT -5
Creative consultant is the person who sits there and says something being done looks real. I have been creative consultant on a number of commercials and a couple of sports movies and I was asked if a scene looked real or the dialogue was realistic but in no way was I asked to give my thoughts on whether somethhing should be in the film or not.
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Post by iratherlikeme on Jan 29, 2003 1:38:47 GMT -5
Am I thinking of someone else or was it said that Otis made the statement about the movie being a great deal (like somewhere in the area of 90+%) accurate?
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Post by sukkafu on Jan 29, 2003 3:50:50 GMT -5
southern niece, i don't know of any docu-drama ever being that high of a % accurate!
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Post by iratherlikeme on Jan 29, 2003 11:58:01 GMT -5
That's what I'm saying. I know somebody said it. I remember thinking how strange it was that someone had even fixed his mouth to say that.
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