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Shirley Movie: What Happened To George Wallace After His Assassination Attempt
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George Wallace was paralyzed from the waist down after an assassination attempt in 1972, ending his Presidential campaign. Arthur Bremer, the man who tried to kill Wallace, served 35 years in prison and was released in 2007 on parole. Despite the attempt on his life, Wallace won two primaries, attended the Democratic National Convention in 1972, and ran for President again in 1976.

A pivotal scene in the new Netflix movie Shirley is the real-life assassination attempt of presidential candidate George Wallace. Wallace, played by W. Earl Brown in Shirley, was a well-known American politician and judge who served as the 45th governor of Alabama for a total of four terms. Like the real-life Shirley Chisholm, Wallace announced that he was running for President of the United States as a Democrat in the pivotal 1972 election.

As portrayed in Shirley, both Chisholm and Wallace were victims of separate assassination attacks, although Chisholm's was far less severe...
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  • 3/22/2024
  • by Greg MacArthur
  • ScreenRant
How ‘Joker’ Designer Mapped Gotham With a Touch of DC Comics and a Lot of Old NYC Squalor (Map)
A version of this story about Mark Friedberg and “Joker” first appeared in the Oscar Nominations Preview issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.

Director Todd Phillips and production designer Mark Friedberg are not exactly comic-book people or superhero-movie people, and it’s clear that their collaboration on “Joker” owes more to the gritty urban look of films like “Taxi Driver” than to anything from the DC pages that introduced the character.

“It’s obviously inspired by ‘Taxi Driver,'” Friedberg said. “‘Taxi Driver’ was inspired by the diary of (failed George Wallace assassin) Arthur Bremer, our character is named Arthur … It may stop short of being an homage, but it’s inspired by ‘Taxi Driver’ and by the version of New York City that ‘Taxi Driver’ was set in, by other cinema of that time.

“When I read the script I said, ‘It should feel like we have cameras and...
See full article at The Wrap
  • 12/18/2019
  • by Steve Pond
  • The Wrap
Super Bowl Disaster Movies: The Most Specific Genre of All
Jim Knipfel Feb 3, 2019

There aren't many disaster films set at the Super Bowl but we do what we can, given we’ll never have another.

With the skies above Minneapolis abuzz with black helicopters, armed troops wandering the streets of Minnesota, bomb-sniffing dogs giving everyone the once-over, and a game-day security plan that probably includes a ban on tailgating and/or undercover snipers positioned throughout the stadium, it seems it’s time once again to pull out my Super Bowl disaster films.

Of course I do this every year, but that's not the point.

There haven’t been many Super Bowl disaster movies, in no small part because the National Football League is comprised of a bunch of litigious tightasses who seem to think snipers, crashing blimps loaded with projectiles, and thousands of panicking fans trampling one another to get to safety would somehow reflect them in a bad light.
See full article at Den of Geek
  • 1/31/2014
  • Den of Geek
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