A Beautiful Mind. Gandhi. The Passion of Christ. Some people just have lives that translate over very well to the silver screen.
This is a twist on the old "what books should be made into a movie" poll, except with people's lives instead of books. Who would you pick?
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Mine. I want to see how it turns out.
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Lenny Bruce...oh wait, nevermind.
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
Batman...oh wait, never mind...
But seriously, Maynard James Keenan, lead singer of Tool.
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
i want to see the life of "Charlie" be made into a movie. from my understanding some people tried and failed so they just wrote a book about him instead...sigh
Posted by MoonRabbit (Member # 3652) on :
Wilbur and Orville Wright. If you haven't read The Bishop's Boys by Crouch, do it. They were way ahead of their time in terms of experimenting to figure out how to do things. Most of the other so-called aviation pioneers of the time based their designs on intuition and "common sense" rather than on physics and math.
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
Albert Einstien
Should be pretty self explanitory Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
You know they're making another Elizabeth movie? You know, the one with Cate Blanchett? That movie was so good, and now they're doing a Golden Age movie. Should be great.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I know there's been a lot of Napolean movies made, but Stanley Kubrick spent many, many years of his life working on his version, and was about to start shoting before the studio pulled the plug, he'd hired over 45,000 soldiers! I really want to see that.
Hobbes Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Rumi! Rumi was so cool! Both him and Shams would be fascinating.
Posted by Xaposert (Member # 1612) on :
My choice would be philosopher John Stuart Mill. Consider...
He was born the son of one of the greatest utilitarian thinkers of his time, and was raised as an experiment to become a perfect utilitarian machine - almost a "chosen one" to lead that philosophical school of thought. He read Greek by age three and was debating with his father's intellectual peers at twelve. At twenty he had everything he'd ever worked for, yet collapsed into depression, giving up the philosophy he was born to lead. It was true love that brought him back from his crisis, in the form of a young intellectual woman who, unfortunately, was already married. What followed was a huge scandal lasting years, until his love's husband died and Mill married her, which in turn led to their isolation from society - finally resulting in Mill's greatest works of all.
It's got more than enough soap opera to fill a movie, and it has the substance to make it meaningful.
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Also, what about the Buddha? He's so famous that I'm actually rather suprised no one has tried to do a big-scale cinematic account of his supposed life. Buddhism gets a lot of play in hollywood, but the actual story behind the religion itself has not.
[ September 29, 2004, 01:13 AM: Message edited by: Xaposert ]
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I would love to see a Buddha movie too.
What about one covering the life and times of one Mr. Kahn?
Hobbes Posted by ae (Member # 3291) on :
Has there been a movie about Pablo Neruda?
Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
Nelson Mandela.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Hobbes, check out Little Buddha. Despite its average rating, I think it is a gorgeous film.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Alan Turing.
or Sara Sasse.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I'm going to be honest with you SS, I've seen it and I didn't think it was that great. Kundun was spectacular (I thought) but ... well that's about the Dali Lama, not Buddha.
Hobbes Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :
John Lennon, or just a movie about The Beatles in general.
Posted by Psycho Triad (Member # 3331) on :
A full length feature from the eyes of a household pet. (not one of those movies with animals that talk, or we can hear their "thoughts")
Hmm think I'll sleep on the couch for the morning, wake up, scratch, eat, attack the neighbor, use the outside facilities, sleep on the floor near the door,...
Ok.. maybe it wouldn't be too good. But it'd be funny.
Posted by Xaposert (Member # 1612) on :
By the way... if anyone's answer to this is the author of Peter Pan, there's a movie coming out about him this December starring Johnny Depp, and it looks really good.
Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :
Richard Feynman, no question.
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
Abraham and Isaac (I think some have been made, but I'd like to see a big production movie thing) The Members of Pink Floyd
Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
Socrates or Rumi or Miles Davis or Sara Sasse or J.D. Salinger.
What makes life worthy of theater? They've had to have worked for it, as in, their fortune is tied to some decision they made.
[ September 29, 2004, 06:23 PM: Message edited by: Irami Osei-Frimpong ]
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
quote:Has there been a movie about Pablo Neruda?
Yes, there has - Il Postino. It was dull and awful, though, and it's really too bad.
I suppose it wasn't really about Pablo Neruda, though, it just featured him.
I'd like to see a movie on Kandinsky, but it seems only the tragic artists who have insane love affairs get movies of their lives. The tame brilliant ones don't seem to film well.
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