Saturday, October 21, 2006

A Movie in a Minute .. Forrest Tucker as idi Amin

We went to see this movie out of curiousity. Forest Tucker is an actor of immense talent, ,imitted one assumes by the smallish literature for actors with black faces. Sure, one can do MacBeth with a black actor but I dubt that we have yet gotten to the place where no one would notice the casting.

So maybe that is why Tucker chose to do this movie. The movie is abuot one thing. idi Amin is awful, dreadful, disgusting and evil. His evil is secutive, charming, overwhelming, and maketh Richard III seem like a nicer guy than George W Bush. This sort of evil is not the evil of unintended outcomes or corrupted goodness. This is the evil of biblical proportions, an evil that ight just explain Stalin and Hitler.

It is an evil portrayal that will make Tucker a "Sir" if England ever decides we Americans need that sort of recognition if only to put greta acotr in a class with Gielgud and Olivier. We NEED a vehicle for Tucker's talents?

He needs to play Richard III, maybe the hump will hide his skin? MacBeth might be an easier do, but is that King of Scotland as evil as the self stuyled Scpts King of Ugandha?
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