Dalton Trumbo was by the end of the forties about the most succesfull screenwriter in Hollywood but also an active member of the communist party and a big supporter of Stalin. When the HUAC starts its hearings he is ofcourse one of the first to be targeted and indeed found guilty, as one of the infamous Hollywood Ten, put in jail (but only for 10 months) and upron release can't find a job so starts to work on B-movies but prevails in the end with winning two oscars and writing the screenplay for "Spartacus".
As a classic moviebuff I quite liked the movie, especially to find out how all these actors would be portrayed : Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger are spot-on, John Wayne so-and so but the Edward Robinson part is a joke, played by an actor who looks at least 20 years younger then the real Robinson at the time.
But let's face it : this is an almost Ghandi-like haghiography by today's liberal leftleaning Hollywood. Cranston does an OK job : he portrrays Trumbo as rather grumpy but lovable family man who only cares on the fact that also his stricken colleagues get some work. There is even one who has cancer. He also lives in a grand mansion (as a real commie) but which he ofcourse has to leave when things get rough and then has to movie to a house in the suburbs (how terrible).
Anyway, if you are supporting for a country that is in deadlocks with your own country on about everything (definitely in the fifties) you might consider piping down a bit, especially on the First Amendment thing, something that is rather missing in the Soviet Union legal handbook.
As a classic moviebuff I quite liked the movie, especially to find out how all these actors would be portrayed : Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger are spot-on, John Wayne so-and so but the Edward Robinson part is a joke, played by an actor who looks at least 20 years younger then the real Robinson at the time.
But let's face it : this is an almost Ghandi-like haghiography by today's liberal leftleaning Hollywood. Cranston does an OK job : he portrrays Trumbo as rather grumpy but lovable family man who only cares on the fact that also his stricken colleagues get some work. There is even one who has cancer. He also lives in a grand mansion (as a real commie) but which he ofcourse has to leave when things get rough and then has to movie to a house in the suburbs (how terrible).
Anyway, if you are supporting for a country that is in deadlocks with your own country on about everything (definitely in the fifties) you might consider piping down a bit, especially on the First Amendment thing, something that is rather missing in the Soviet Union legal handbook.