8/24/2023 0 Comments America the motion pictureHis dying wish, expressed as his jugular squirts great gouts of blood into his best friend’s face, is that Washington continue his dream of overthrowing the British to found a new country called. Lincoln meets his end in the theatre, as history tells us he did – but in this case it’s because he has his throat ripped out by a werewolf. Here is a feature-length cartoon movie about the American Revolution which boasts on its title card: “Based On Actual History.” That's, I guess, to be taken as a teasing reference to the liberties with history that most films that make such claims take: the dial, here, is rather more in the direction of Team America than Hamilton.Īn opening scene, for instance, sees best buds George Washington and Abraham Lincoln going to the theatre (Red, White and Blue Man group, natch) after buying souvenir T-shirts from the John Wilkes Concession Booth (ho ho). It is into such a market, I fancy, that the producers of America: The Motion Picture hope to pitch their movie that, and the market for profane juvenility so memorably served by Team America: World Police. I hadn’t heard of Lafayette or Hamilton or Aaron Burr when I was twelve – but these kids could tell you the whole story with a high degree of historical accuracy and some wicked rhymes. It struck me as utterly bizarre, and very welcome, that thanks to Ron Chernow (by way of Lin-Manuel Miranda), British 12-year-olds are weirdly hip to 18th-century American history. ![]() My daughter and two of her friends were rapping the lyrics to several numbers from Hamilton in the car the other day. Dir: Matt Thompson Starring: Channing Tatum, Jason Mantzoukas, Olivia Munn, Bobby Moynihan, Judy Greer, Will Forte, Simon Pegg, Adam Samburg.
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