Out of curiosity I looked into Annie Oakley's bio after viewing this film. I was blown away!!! The true story is extremely fascinating. And I was very surprised that many of the facts in the musical are actually true - the real Sitting Bull really adopted the real Annie, for instance.
I think this could be re-made as a successful, factual biographical film - maybe Demi Moore as Annie? She looks like her & has played "tomboys".
That would be a completely different film, not a remake of "Annie Get Your Gun". Actually, I think that both the more fantasty musical comedy approach and the "true to life" approach have merit.
shareAnnie Oakley's life would make an interesting movie, if they would do it without any woke bias, but that would be impossible today. Unfortunately, it would be a diatribe about feminism, racism, the patriarchy, etc., etc., and would end up, in a different way, as unrealistic as the musical version but without the entertainment value.
shareI completely agree, as much as I would love to see an actual biopic of Annie Oakley. Hollywood would not do it justice.
Heck, I’m even torn about this version. I really enjoy this movie but I read that a descendant of Annie’s has come out and spoken against this musical and the liberties it takes with her life story involving her career and especially her relationship with Frank. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Frank was the pompous narcissist that he was portrayed as in the show which makes you wonder why you are supposed to root for him and Annie to end up together. Didn’t Annie and Frank have a great marriage in real life?
If I was in their descendant’s shoes, I would probably hate this show too. If Annie’s life and career was already super interesting, why change anything? Why fictionalize it? Would it have killed you to just keep it accurate to real history? This is the problem when you do this to real people who really lived.