Re: [Harp-L] Cadillac Records - Little Walter
- To: cljdm@xxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Cadillac Records - Little Walter
- From: michael rubin <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 10:02:30 -0500
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It think it is wrong. Little Walter has a living family. Imagine a
Hollywood movie about your father's life where they portrayed your
father as a murderer. Then is it just Hollywood license? No, it's
wrong.
Michael Rubin
Michaelrubinharmonica.com
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:54 AM, <cljdm@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> It just SEEMS to me that the Little Walter scene where he shoots someone over the taking and using of his name, is a vague reference to Sonnyboy II taking Sonnyboys I 's moniker. The scene has Little Walter shooting the dude for taking his name and going on the road with it. That is just plain WRONG. Hollywood is using to much license with the facts. I know they could not reference every Bluesman in the movie. To portray LW as a murderer in this scene is criminal in my book.
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> Chris Mastakas
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> ---- Original Message ----
> From: Bill Kumpe <bkumpe@xxxxxxx>
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 10:37 am
> Subject: [Harp-L] Cadillac Records - Little Walter
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> Quite a bit of artistic license was taken in the film and I suspect the
> Little Walter shooting was an attempt to reinterpret him as an early father
> of the modern rap gangsta character.
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> But, we make a mistake to try to canonize these old blues men. Every
> objective report I have read describes Walter as brilliant, difficult, mean
> and irresponsible. And that was not out of the ordinary for a bluesman of
> the time apparently. Of the characters in the film, only Howlin Wolf was
> what you could really call a solid citizen. And the movie portrayed him
> badly. He did not drive to Chicago in a rusty pickup. He was probably the
> only musician to ever drive up the blues highway with real money in his
> pocket ($4000.00) and while I don't know exactly what he did drive on that
> particular early trip I believe he later preferred Pontiac station wagons
> over Cadillacs and for that matter Epiphone guitars over Gibsons.
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> Bill Kumpe
> Tulsa, OK
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