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It’s a movie starring his nephew in the lead role, approved by his estate, and by all accounts it just feels like an attempt to whitewash him. This is a man who was accused of being a serial child molester, settled with a family out of court for $25 million just to avoid a trial (Chandler), and openly admitted he slept in the same bed as kids while he was an adult (Bashir interview), among other things. I don’t really see what there is to debate.

Anything pointing this out gets backlash on movie-related subreddits, which I find wild. It makes me wonder, if Epstein could sing and dance, would he have gotten a biopic too? Would people be defending him like this?

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Personally I find all celebrity biopics disgusting.

I mean, it would be different if these things tended to actually be honest deeply researched analyses done by hard-nosed experts (which would probably mean they would be spectacularly boring as movies and better as articles or books) and if celebrity status was highly correlated to the greatness of one's achievements for society rather than to being well known because of practicing a very public profession (so, featuring more of, for example, Great Scientists and fewer Star Musicians and Movie Stars), but in the current society, celebrity biopics are fantasy spectacles about people whose fame is due to nothing else than being a competent professional in showbiz.

That in itself doesn't make the biopics "disgusting" but the recent abundance of them does add up to too much to of an overly sweet low-nutrition thing the point of being stomach turning, IMHO.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Personally I find all celebrity biopics disgusting.

Hey, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a classic and a masterpiece, I'll have you know.

[–] QueenMidna@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Wrong kid died!

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

i like biopics that don't pretend to be anything more than entertainment, like Weird Al and Nick Cages biopic movies