![]() The movie therefore dances on a tenuous thread of credibility even though critical events are true. 1 at the box office, taking in 25 million for its opening weekend could be viewed as surprising given outcries over films like 2011’s. Martin Luther King Jr.'s motel room at the time of his assassination. 6 It is inspired by Wil Haygood 's Washington Post article 'A Butler Well Served by This Election'. Louis joins a lunch counter sit-in, the Freedom Riders and the Black Panthers, leaves Malcolm X's final speech minutes before his murder, and editing suggests he's in Dr. The Butler (full title Lee Daniels' The Butler) 4 5 is a 2013 American historical drama film directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels and with a screenplay by Danny Strong. The sprawl of history becomes the movie's disadvantage since each president - and the big-time movie stars playing them - gets only brief screen time.Īs written by Danny Strong, Cecil is a composite of several White House servants and black history books, with Cecil's rebellious son, Louis (David Oyelowo), possessing a Gumpian ability to be wherever history is being made. Stoic and silent, Cecil is present when history is made but remains apolitical in the background, because that's how African-Americans were conditioned to be. The Allen character is renamed Cecil Gaines, portrayed with lumbering sensitivity by Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker. The Butler is a classy production, well-acted throughout but its reach exceeds Daniels' creative grasp. The Butler is a bit more than 2 hours long, spans several decades, and includes multiple storylines. He did fight in the Vietnam War but survived to. But according to History vs Hollywood, Eugene Allen only had one son, Charles. One dies in the Vietnam War, leading to a confrontation with President Richard Nixon, and the other is involved with the Black Panthers and pushing for civil rights reform. There's something both admirable and exasperating about that approach None of these important stories get the attention they deserve with such a truncated technique. In 'The Butler ,' Cecil Gaines has two sons. Yet Daniels shoehorns each one into The Butler, as if no other filmmaker ever had the courage and this is the only chance for these stories to be told on screen.
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