Movies about people you'd liked to see made

[HEyHEY]

I would love to see a movie on the career of Stiff Little Fingers or one on the life of John Candy.

You?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

1. How about a blockbuster about the Romanovs and Rasputin...

That would rock...or a movie about the Russian Scientist who saved Russia's ass after Chernobyl,Valery Legasov. really interesting guy. He was kind of a conscience of sorts for the Communist Government. He killed himself on the second anniversary of the tragedy. It would have to be in Russian with subtitles, because anything less would suck.
Duckie

[HEyHEY]

2. That would be a rocking movie

There must already be a movie about rasputin though. Is there not?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. No idea...

But I really think it'd be cool to do some thing now...with the real story. History International had a special on about him last week when I was home sick. It was AWESOME.
Duckie

[HEyHEY]

4. Home "sick about him" - Got a crush on Raspy?

Must be easy to pick up chicks when Bony-M has a song about you.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

5. No crush, just a grammar mistake...

:evilgrin:

[u4ic]

8. There are many

I've seen the one with Alan Rickman as Rasputin: http://www.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=rasputin

[YellowRubberDuckie]

11. I could kiss you...

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Alan Rickman. That's awesome. I'm so putting that on my netflix queue. THANKS!!
Duckie

[u4ic]

21. He is da bomb!

:loveya:

Have you seen Close My Eyes? An earlier film of his: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101595/ (a lot of British films about incest came out around that time...)

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

6. Emma Goldman

we got a tease with maureen stapleton in Reds back 1980, but a movie on her entire life would be fascinating

[Liberal Veteran]

7. Hypatia.

Although Carl Sagan gave a good tribute to her in Cosmos.

[Jade Fox]

9. Labor leader John L. Lewis....n/t

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

10. Emmett Grogan

A direct port of Ringolevio would suit me fine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Grogan
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0862418933

[JVS]

12. There was this guy in the battle of Stalingrad who killed like 50 ...

Germans with a shovel in one day (it was room to room fighting, guns would have been too much trouble). I want to see a movie about that day. I think it should be called "Shovelkill"

[JVS]

13. "Shattered glass and shattered dreams, the fatty arbuckle story"

has always been a legal drama that I've been on the lookout for. Since it is so unclear what happened, the story would lend itself nicely to a treatment similar to Oliver Stone's JFK.

[Mojambo]

14. The Phil Ochs story

Rumor a while back was that Sean Penn was interested in making it.

[JVS]

15. "Hans Sachs: Writer, Shoemaker, Lutheran Propagandist"

Follow the life of this shoemaker poet into the reformation, during which he produces illegal propaganda against the papacy.

[JVS]

16. "The wonderful travels and tragic death of Paul Fleming"

17th century poet travelled from Germany to Latvia then through Russia to Persia as part of a diplomatic entourage. In Latvia he fell in love with three sister in succession (got dumped by the older one and went to the next oldest one twice) Died on a voyage from the netherlands to Latvia to get married.

[bbernardini]

17. Frank Zappa, Kevin Gilbert, Bill Hicks, Todd Rundgren nt

[asthmaticeog]

18. Why there hasn't been a Xaviera Hollander biopic, I'll never understand.

:shrug:

[Mojambo]

19. Good one.

I was a BIG fan in my early teenage years.

[ForrestGump]

20. Two Nazis

And I use the term advisedly.

1) Reinhard Heydrich - one of the prime architects of the Final Solution and head of the SD (secret police, basically...he had files on everybody, too, sorta like Hoover) who was considerably more complex and nuanced a character than those nasty particulars might suggest. Always thought he'd be a great subject for a movie.

2) Otto Skorzeny - German commando extraordinaire...rescued Mussolini, was responsible for infiltration of American units during the Ardennes Offensive (Battle of the Bulge), and then became Eva Peron's bodyguard (and maybe lover, if I recall right) after the war.

Both these dues were on the side of the Bad Guys, and both were actual Nazis (as opposed to Germans who just happened to be in Germnay 1933-1945), but they're both phenomenally interesting men.

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. A couple, off the top o' my haid

One about Col. Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay. There've been plenty of movies about the Manhattan Project and the first atomic bombs, but none I know of that got inside his head. I've wondered what he felt about what he was party to.

Another about Alfons Heck, who wrote "A Child of Hitler" about his experiences in his rise to a leadership position in the Hitler Youth. He bought into the Nazi propaganda hook, line and sinker (his line in the book after hearing Hitler speak at Nuremburg was, "From that moment on, Adolf Hitler owned me, body and soul") but after the war slowly came to the realization that it'd all been horribly wrong.

[Arkham House]

23. Solzhenitsyn

Talk about drama--war, the Gulag, one man facing down the world's most brutal tyranny, the century's most influential book, exile, then a dramatic return home after the tyranny finally cracks...it has everything...

[JVS]

24. Fuck that no good nazi-sympathizer!