![]() The film turns Louis into a kind of African-American Zelig, present at every key Civil Rights turning point. TURAN: But "The Butler's" plotting becomes too contrived. OYELOWO: (as Louis Gaines) If I can't sit at any lunch counter I want, then I might as well be dead. WHITAKER: (as Cecil Gaines) That judge just sentenced you to 30 days in the county workhouse. WHITAKER: (as Cecil Gaines) Are you even in school?ĭAVID OYELOWO: (as Louis Gaines) I'm trying to change the way negroes are treated. The clashes between father and son over the utility of getting arrested in the South are intense. TURAN: "The Butler" starts to give off mixed messages when Cecil's politically active son Louis, played by David Oyelowo, comes of age. KRAVITZ: (as James Holloway) I just want to know where the man is coming from. JR.: (as Carter Wilson) Why don't you shake the man's hand first before you start asking difficult questions like that? KRAVITZ: (as James Holloway) Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays? ![]() This brother at the mirror over here, his name is James Holloway, my second in command. That brother will steal your wallet before you even know it. JR.: (as Carter Wilson) Well, I'm Carter Wilson, the head Butler. LENNY KRAVITZ: (as James Holloway) (unintelligible) What's your name, my brother?įOREST WHITAKER: (as Cecil Gaines) Cec - Cecil Gaines. and Lenny Kravitz.ĬUBA GOODING, JR.: (as Carter Wilson) Hey, there he is - heard you were coming. And one of the film's strengths is the gregarious banter of his coworkers, played by Cuba Gooding, Jr. But "The Butler" abandons reality to create fictional composite characters that allow decades of history to fit into one family's tumultuous story.Ĭecil Gaines, played by Forest Whitaker, starts work at the White House in 1957. The film was inspired by the real life career of a White House employee who served eight presidents. It's an ambitious and overdue attempt to create a Hollywood-style epic around the experience of black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement. ![]() ![]() KENNETH TURAN: "Lee Daniels' The Butler" is neither as good as it might have been nor as bad as you may have feared. Times and MORNING EDITION film critic Kenneth Turan has this review. The new film called "Lee Daniels' The Butler," stars Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey in a story that took five years and 37 producers to bring to the big screen. ![]()
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