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Old 08-24-2013, 08:53 PM
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Saw the movie...it was ok.... Forest Whittaker did a great job. I googled the movie afterwards to learn more about the character....based on a true story is an understatement. Not very factual and is a way to highlight where we have come in the area of civil rights.
I agree with this. I was really disappointed to read a short bio on the life of the real butler whose name was even changed for the movie. It was pure fiction based very loosely on a true story.
It was not surprising that Hollywood took this opportunity to promote a very liberal issue on a lot of different issues. Ronald Reagan never said to Eugene Allen (the real butler's real name) that he thought that maybe he was on the wrong side of the race issue.
Instead of simply telling a wonderful story of the interesting life of a nice man, they used the movie to drag up everything negative about America.
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