When you're a filmmaker and you see your job as educating rather than entertaining, your movie is pretty much guaranteed to suck. That applies whether you're liberal or conservative, or religious or secular.
There's definitely a great film to be made about Reagan, but I fear any movie about him in practice will be a hagiography or a hatch…
When you're a filmmaker and you see your job as educating rather than entertaining, your movie is pretty much guaranteed to suck. That applies whether you're liberal or conservative, or religious or secular.
There's definitely a great film to be made about Reagan, but I fear any movie about him in practice will be a hagiography or a hatchet job, when the actual man was much more complex than either his fans or his critics acknowledge. (Then again, that's how it is with most biopics.)
When you're a filmmaker and you see your job as educating rather than entertaining, your movie is pretty much guaranteed to suck. That applies whether you're liberal or conservative, or religious or secular.
There's definitely a great film to be made about Reagan, but I fear any movie about him in practice will be a hagiography or a hatchet job, when the actual man was much more complex than either his fans or his critics acknowledge. (Then again, that's how it is with most biopics.)