Maybe this is why Flee went home empty-handed at the Oscars this year. The non-documentary crowd were frustrated they couldn't adapt it. It was a documentary but presented like a movie normally is. There really is no point in redoing that superb documentary as a 'movie' as it already kinda is.EricJ wrote: ↑April 4th, 2022, 5:45 pm
Having looked at the narrative version of "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" before the Oscars (rent the original doc immediately), it seems like narrative biopic remakes of hit documentaries--like The Walk's version of Man on Wire, or the Christian Bale version of "Little Dieter Needs to Fly"--are Hollywood's version of "How DARE those snooty arthouse theaters have an actual commercial audience success! Everyone knows it would be better as a REAL movie!"![]()
I will admit that I am one of those people who lean more towards watching the movie than the documentary. There is only so much talking heads, old footage and still photographs my brain can handle with a biopic. Pretty sure I would sit down and watch a dramatic interpretation of Jim Henson's life.