I swear they made us watch this in RE. I think they made us watch last half though cause I was starting to remember it more when we got there. That’s also just the better half of the movie.
Watched this solely for Christopher Eccleston, my beloved, after reading his book “I Love The Bones of You”.
Forgive me if this is more of a review for that book as I debate whether to sign up for good reads. Christopher Eccleston is a very interesting human being to me. He’s very proudly working class, talks about his upbringing, how it shaped him and his choices in roles and has set a precedent for The Doctor (Doctor Who) being played by a working class actors for 5 incarnations in a row after him.
One thing I love about him is his honesty. He’s very honest about the roles that he thought he did a good job and will the movies and roles which he wasn’t too keen on. He will admit, the version of this film on screen and the film he wanted were incredibly different. He felt that his learning challenges were being “romantised and idealised” in order to make them easily digestible. He also wanted to reveal a darker side to Derek which was removed to make the film palatable. (He also talks about his disdain for Forest Gump).
Is this film clearly biased to Derek’s side. Yes. Does it have every right to be. Also, Yes.
I swear they made us watch this in RE. I think they made us watch last half though cause I was starting to remember it more when we got there. That’s also just the better half of the movie.
Watched this solely for Christopher Eccleston, my beloved, after reading his book “I Love The Bones of You”.
Forgive me if this is more of a review for that book as I debate whether to sign up for good reads. Christopher Eccleston is a very interesting human being to me. He’s very proudly working class, talks about his upbringing, how it shaped him and his choices in roles and has set a precedent for The Doctor (Doctor Who) being played by a working class actors for 5 incarnations in a row after him.
One thing I love about him is his honesty. He’s very honest about the roles that he thought he did a good job and will the movies and roles which he wasn’t too keen on. He will admit, the version of this film on screen and the film he wanted were incredibly different. He felt that his learning challenges were being “romantised and idealised” in order to make them easily digestible. He also wanted to reveal a darker side to Derek which was removed to make the film palatable. (He also talks about his disdain for Forest Gump).
Is this film clearly biased to Derek’s side. Yes. Does it have every right to be. Also, Yes.
