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...something different about an Oscar-worthy movie. It is larger than life, it has grand themes on love and life, it is supposed to inspire, thrill, move. In short, it is Dances With Wolves grand, it is Saving Private Ryan intense, it is The English Patient complex. Director Norman Jewison's (Moonstruck, Agnes of God) latest offering, The Hurricane, aspires to be an Oscar movie. It is lush, it is serious and boy does it try to stuff itself full with Oscar-worthy themes...
...authorized biography, a cautious primer for black pride. It is Lee's biggest film, and the least Spikey. At one point in producer Marvin Worth's 26-year hajj to get this movie made, and before he was persuaded that an African American should direct the movie, Norman Jewison (A Soldier's Story) wanted to do it. If Jewison had, the product would be about the same. Only the label would be different...
...various times since producer Marvin Worth sewed up the rights in 1968, novelists James Baldwin and David Bradley and playwrights David Mamet and Charles Fuller tried their hand at writing a screenplay. Actors Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor expressed interest in playing Malcolm, and Sidney Lumet and Norman Jewison considered directing. But nobody wanted to do the film more than...
When he heard that Jewison had the go-ahead for the project, Lee waged a protest campaign, arguing in the press that only a black director could do the right thing with Malcolm's story and pestering Worth with countless phone calls, insisting, "I'm the guy, I'm the guy." Worth finally relented, and Jewison bowed out. Warner Bros. agreed to finance the Baldwin script, as rewritten and directed by Lee, starring Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington. "I think they felt it would be more of an event with Spike," Worth says...
...Thomas Crown Affair--Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway star in this 1968 classic. In the opening scene, Thomas Crown (McQueen) masterminds a $2.6 million bank robbery of a Boston area bank. Director Norman Jewison skillfully uses split screens and bright light to build the drama for heist. But, the action at the outset is replaced by a well-planned investigation. An insurance investigator (Faye Dunaway), delves into the motives of the robber, eventually leading her to Crown...