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Post by selfishreasons on Nov 1, 2003 0:02:20 GMT -5
If you had some creative control and could change three things about the movie, what would you change?
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Post by c5temptsfan on Nov 1, 2003 0:49:01 GMT -5
First I would change the way Paul was portrayed .... you'd know more about the high points in his life and less about his personal struggles. Then I'd switch the guys who played Otis' and Melvin's characters ,so they would look more like the person they were portraying. ???I can't think of nothing else at the moment.....let me get back to ya ;D |
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Post by selfishreasons on Nov 1, 2003 1:21:17 GMT -5
How about making eddie less of a chump and more like he was made out to be in the book. In the book he had fire. In the movie he was not as tough. He was the one who took stands, but was never tough.
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Post by Tess on Nov 1, 2003 3:31:52 GMT -5
Make it a really long miniseries and cover each member as much as O was covered....adding as the bonus on the DVD live performances of The Tempts doing all of the concert footage from the movie.
Or, if you're not going to give each guy equal coverage, leave out the death scenes and just add them as a footnote on screen at the end of the movie. Since no one is sure exactly what happened why speculate?
Tess
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Post by selfishreasons on Nov 1, 2003 9:14:18 GMT -5
how about showing the deaths in the begining of the movie and then going to the real begining of the stroy and telling it. So at the end we wouldn't have to see the deaths.
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Post by Peach on Nov 1, 2003 10:52:28 GMT -5
I want to know more about Eddie.... and Dennis, but of course we can't have that since he'd be there to get mad if it wasn't accurate. ;D I hated that they just said, "What was it that got Eddie?" It sounds morbid, but I want to know about his last few days...
I would have a "David voice" be the narrator... I just think that would add some humor to the movie. ;D Or maybe all members be "narrator" at one point or another. Of course, no one knows their thoughts... so it would be all speculation. But it'd be nice to get other points of view.
Peach
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Post by winetender on Nov 1, 2003 11:31:08 GMT -5
:DIf You would like to see The Movie Again, VH1 is airing it Wed., Nov. 12th @ 5:00pm! :oOHH! "Get Ready!" just came on the Radio!(Sorry, I always do That!) Anyway, I would like to see more about Eddie, but, I Do Love That Movie!!! Even though I have it on tape, :(I know I'll watch it Again; I'm sort of addicted to It!
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Post by Tess on Nov 1, 2003 15:53:28 GMT -5
That would be a good change to make Cheech. Let the movie go out on a high note maybe The Beauty's Only Skin Deep performance? Kind of leaves you with a little message too. As fine as these guys were with all of their outward beauty underneath things weren't always so pretty.
Peach that would be so cool to have DR commenting with little asides along the line of..."ain't nobody comin' to see you Otis" throughout the movie. Would DR include Geena and DRJr. in his version? He better not leave out the apt. scene. Too much great dialog there. How about where he is moping around and O comes back to see what's wrong ? Would DR choose to show that side of him and Otis?
Tess
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Post by earthangel on Nov 1, 2003 21:57:15 GMT -5
I like Hype's idea about potraying Eddie with more fire And I agree 110% with Tess's idea about the live footage as an extra with the DVD... Wine Tender...we're all addicted  |
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Post by winetender on Nov 1, 2003 22:31:45 GMT -5
:DI'm So glad to hear that; I was beginging to think I was the only one! But, somehow, I knew that there were others with the same addiction ! That Movie was A Big part of My 8 week recovery from Surgery from cancer! |
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Post by Ivory Fair on Nov 1, 2003 23:01:06 GMT -5
Thanks Cheech for making this thread becaue it gives me an opportunity to say something I've been wanting to say yet couldn't find a thread for it to go in ........... and I was too lazy to make a new one.
Why in the HECK was there NO mention of Cornelius Grant !!!!!? I mean NONE! I'm not asking for much, but Cholly got a mention (as well he should have) and I think Maurice King's name was also mentioned but NO Cornelius. I mean the man was THE "Sixth Tempt" for crying out loud!!!!!
So that would be my change, to make him have a more integral role in the movie. Or at least put him on the bus or SOMETHING!!!!!
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Post by KEEKS on Nov 2, 2003 9:44:47 GMT -5
In the scene where David steals the Mic and they argue backstage...David tells them he's clean and so on. I would have let him back in the group. I don't think you were going for this with this topic...but that scene fact or fiction is heart whrenching to me  . You said I was a Temptation forever..what about that promise huh O? BTW Selfish the Avatar is blowing me away... please send an autographed copy to me here in Iraq. I will tell everyone you are my boyfriend... It will be great. Im serious!!! :inlove Really I am...I will give you my addy dahlin' |
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Post by selfishreasons on Nov 2, 2003 9:50:30 GMT -5
Keeks, even though you ain't got money, I'm still in love you you, Honey. I'm so glad you like the picture, sweetheart.
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Post by Tess on Nov 2, 2003 15:21:39 GMT -5
In the scene where David steals the Mic and they argue backstage...David tells them he's clean and so on. I would have let him back in the group. I don't think you were going for this with this topic...but that scene fact or fiction is heart whrenching to me . You said I was a Temptation forever..what about that promise huh O? !  ' True, true, true. To me that kind of thing is the saddest because choices were made that made a big difference in the history of the group. OTH David made his choices too. Ya gotta wonder though would have letting David back in at that time saved him? Personally I think of "The Group" as the guys, not the intanigble idea of a group of performers which IMO is Otis' definition of 'TheGroup". Therefore to preserve "The Group" you must save the individual members of the group. Tess |
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Post by selfishreasons on Nov 2, 2003 18:21:05 GMT -5
Thanks Cheech for making this thread becaue it gives me an opportunity to say something I've been wanting to say yet couldn't find a thread for it to go in ........... and I was too lazy to make a new one. Why in the HECK was there NO mention of Cornelius Grant !!!!!? I mean NONE! I'm not asking for much, but Cholly got a mention (as well he should have) and I think Maurice King's name was also mentioned but NO Cornelius. I mean the man was THE "Sixth Tempt" for crying out loud!!!!! So that would be my change, to make him have a more integral role in the movie. Or at least put him on the bus or SOMETHING!!!!! Ohy, my. I never thought of that. But yo are right. C. Grant, wasn't in the movie. Seems to me like he's a major player that they should have mentioned. |
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