![]() Nothing in memory has stoked outrage like “Winning Time.” The point, always, is to get to the truth of the character, and sometimes fictionalized portrayals are a lot better at that than a straight-up retelling of a life or event.īut whew. The 2015 movie “ Steve Jobs” was a lot more interesting for Michael Fassbender’s portrayal of the Apple co-founder than for its adherence to accuracy. Kalanick comes off like a jerk, though he would use another description, by design.Ĭreative license isn’t anything new. ![]() Then there is “ Super Pumped,”about the founding of Uber, in which Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Travis Kalanick. There’s also “ WeCrashed” on Apple TV+, which isn’t exactly a flattering portrayal of WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann, played to the dramatic hilt and then some by Jared Leto (because that’s how Jared Leto plays people). I don’t know if she’s seen it - it’s quite good - but if so she probably didn’t sit around thinking, wow, Amanda Seyfried gets my dance moves down just right. Her life is the subject of “ The Dropout” on Hulu. So is Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of ill-fated Theranos. Elizabeth Holmes probably isn't a fan of 'The Dropout' But Michael Peterson, whom Firth plays, is a real person. “ The Staircase,” in which Colin Firth plays a writer police believe killed his wife (if you don’t know the story, no sense in spoiling it), is an HBO Max dramatization of a well-known and well-documented case. It’s just the most controversial portrayal currently available on the various streaming services floating around out there. Arizona time on Sunday, May 8, is the latest example, and the most intense I remember seeing, at least since Oliver Stone’s “JFK” came out in 1991. The furor over the portrayal of Jerry West in “ Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,” whose finale airs on HBO at 9 p.m. Sometimes that gets messy, but it's not wrong. They're meant for entertainment, not fact-checking. Which, in some cases, maybe it is a little bit.īut it’s also true. That’s the go-to line whenever people complain that a feature film or TV series about real people or real events doesn’t portray them with exact historical accuracy. View Gallery: HBO's Winning Time gets to the heart of the Showtime LA Lakers
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