Trumbo

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thiago s @Thiagostone Aug 11 Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom, só a atuação do Brian Cranston See more Divyansh U. @Divyansh Jul 22 Good one time watch and that’s all there is to it. Bryan Cranston is his usual best. See more Dane B. M Jul 19 Absolutely spellbinding. I watched not knowing who this man was. I watched knowing every film he wrote. I watched with a new respect for him and all he stood for. Dalton Trumbo was a hero. I'm an actor. I can only imagine the difficulties he went through. I also never knew Hedda Hopper was so witchy. She saw herself as a kind of cultural soldier. Her views were rooted in far-right nationalism, Christian fundamentalism, and moral panic. She often collaborated with groups like the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals and cheered on HUAC's witch hunts. The blacklist crumbled. Trumbo outlived the blacklist—and Hedda Hopper. He died in 1976; she in 1966. See more Adam Y Jul 9 Trumbo should serve as a warning that history can repeat itself, and our freedom of speech is always in jeopardy. See more Mike G Mar 22 Only Crantson could move so easily from a dentist in Seinfeld to a mastermind in Breaking Bad to a sympathetic character in Trumbo. Truly one of the great actors of this early century. See more Allan C 07/21/2024 During the Joseph McCarthy Communist Witch Hunts, the senator set his sights on Hollywood, rooting out communist sympathizers, requiring anyone with past communist ties to “name names” or get blacklisted. TRUMBO tells the story of famed Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (the writer of A GUY NAMED JOE, THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO, ROMAN HOLIDAY, SPARTACUS) who took the principled stand of freedom of speech and the right to dissent by refusing to cooperate with the McCarthy hearings and consequently found himself blacklisted. For anyone familiar with Trumbo’s story, there’s no surprise in the arc of the film, but what was interesting and new was the impact of the blacklist on his family, finding themselves forced to sell their home, ostracized by their neighbors, and yet all the while being unfailingly loyal to Trumbo’s stance. Bryan Cranston is commanding as Trumbo, delivering what seems impossibly clever dialogue, but also seems plausible given he’s an East Coast intellectual whose job was to write impossibly smart dialogue. I already knew that Trumbo and other blacklisted writers continued to work in Hollywood while on the blacklist, using non-blacklisted writers to front for them and share the profits, as well as writing for low-budget disreputable studies who knew their viewers didn’t care about the blacklist, but it was fascinating to see the machinations of how they sold the scripts in this environment. I also learned from this movie that Trumbo wrote under a pseudonym the classic low-budget film noir, GUN CRAZY. Diane Lane is fine in an understated role as Trumbo’s supportive wife, though it’s Elle Fanning as Trumbo’s headstrong daughter who stands out among the many fine supporting actors, who include Alan Tudyk, John Goodman, Louis C.K., Stephen Root, Richard Portnow, and Helen Mirren as Hedda Hopper. While I greatly enjoyed TRUMBO, I don’t know if it’s a movie for everyone, as I’m pretty sure my love of film history biased me toward enjoying this film. I do think the film has crossover film appear for non-film-nerd audiences who are interested in stories of dissent, principled stands, and the importance of democracy and freedom of speech, but overall it’s the performances by Cranston, Lane, Fanning, and the rest of the supporting cast who carry the day.  See more Read all reviews

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