iamwhatiseem
Diamond Member
Was a good movie, kept you interested, well acted and "edge of your chair" drama.
The problem was once AGAIN Hollywood cannot help themselves but obey one of the absolute Hollywood rules:
Leading female in the movie must appear superior to the leading male.
The movie is based on an actual event, the greatest balloon ride in history. A miraculous achievement for...wait for it... two MEN. But what does hollywood do - they make one of them a woman. But that is not far enough. Noooo.... you must make her the hero of the story, and be better than the man she was with in absolutely every-single-way. Morally, intellectually, and even physically. And not by just a little bit, the movie makes it out that the entire thing would have been a colossal failure if not for the brilliance, bravery and spectacular endurance and physicality of Amelia.
So they took an actual event, the heroic story of James Glaisher, a man who broke the highest elevation record of any other human in the history of man - and more importantly the pioneer of modern meteorology. And made it into a fairy tale story of a heroic woman... that never happened.
The problem was once AGAIN Hollywood cannot help themselves but obey one of the absolute Hollywood rules:
Leading female in the movie must appear superior to the leading male.
The movie is based on an actual event, the greatest balloon ride in history. A miraculous achievement for...wait for it... two MEN. But what does hollywood do - they make one of them a woman. But that is not far enough. Noooo.... you must make her the hero of the story, and be better than the man she was with in absolutely every-single-way. Morally, intellectually, and even physically. And not by just a little bit, the movie makes it out that the entire thing would have been a colossal failure if not for the brilliance, bravery and spectacular endurance and physicality of Amelia.
So they took an actual event, the heroic story of James Glaisher, a man who broke the highest elevation record of any other human in the history of man - and more importantly the pioneer of modern meteorology. And made it into a fairy tale story of a heroic woman... that never happened.