The one about the famous poet who constantly wrote his friends asking for money.
Dalton Trumbo was one of the people who ended up on the Hollywood Blacklist for backing the wrong horse in the Cold War. Even though his Russian counterpart would have been shot and buried in a shallow grave, this guy whined because no one wanted to hire him.
Hollywood is a business, and having "Screenplay by a dirty, stinkin' communist" wasn't going to sell your movie. Sorry, it just wasn't.
So the movies is a bunch of spoiled Hollywood actors reading lines of Trumbo's whining letters about how life was so unfair to him as opposed to the 19 year old kid who got killed and buried in Korea somewhere. Or something. Oh, yeah, and he needed money. All the time.
It's one of those documentaries where you kind of sympathize with the subject going in and end up hating him going out, and you don't really think that was the film maker's intent.
Dalton Trumbo was one of the people who ended up on the Hollywood Blacklist for backing the wrong horse in the Cold War. Even though his Russian counterpart would have been shot and buried in a shallow grave, this guy whined because no one wanted to hire him.
Hollywood is a business, and having "Screenplay by a dirty, stinkin' communist" wasn't going to sell your movie. Sorry, it just wasn't.
So the movies is a bunch of spoiled Hollywood actors reading lines of Trumbo's whining letters about how life was so unfair to him as opposed to the 19 year old kid who got killed and buried in Korea somewhere. Or something. Oh, yeah, and he needed money. All the time.
It's one of those documentaries where you kind of sympathize with the subject going in and end up hating him going out, and you don't really think that was the film maker's intent.