Little Walter was murderer and Muddy Waters his accomplice?
The part of the movie I remember is when Little Walter shot and killed a man who was using his name and Muddy drove the get away car.
Why are we suppose to care about these people? Why are we suppose to feel for them? They're trash.
Why are we suppose to care about these people? Why are we suppose to feel for them? They're trash.
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Actually those things never happened. This movie is mostly fiction. Majority of it never happened. Read some history on these people. You wouldnt have the music you listen to or love with out these foundations being laid.
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...i didnt write that...if you look a little closer, you see my comment underneath the bolded text, written by read-1.
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"Little Walter was murderer and Muddy Waters his accomplice?"
Are you referring to the movie, or the real people? In real life, no, this never happened. It was made up specifically for this movie, apparently as a quick way of establishing that Little Walter was a crazy M.F.
But I do agree that having their characters portrayed as doing this makes them a whole lot less sympathetic. It's a shame that this scene was invented for this film, because like you, a lot of other people will come away with this as their one lasting memory of these characters, and they, like you, won't know reality from fantasy.
Why make a movie about real life people and not tell the truth? Why lie? I'm sure the real life singers personality and lives are just as interesting then the lies made up. The movie could have just been fictional all the way through, not using the legends name but at the same time using some of the legends experienes like The Five Heartbeats.
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Mr. Reade,
As a longtime admirer of both Little Walter and Muddy Waters, and someone who has read a great deal about them both, I assure you that this part of the movie is not true, Little Walter was a virtuoso harmonica player and singer but he was no assasin, he was not a common murderer. Hollywood movies stray from the hard truth many times and this was one of those times.
The point of this movie seems to have been to try to demonstrate parallels between the the lives of recording artists then and the gangsta rap culture of today. Doubtless there were some hard, violent characters from that era - Rice Miller (ignored completely by this film) wasn't averse to pulling a knife on folk who crossed him
I liked the film as a work of fiction, but as a historically accurate biography it is worthless garbage. If they wanted to twist the facts so much and completely destroy the reputation of Little Walter (how many cinema goers will actually check the facts?) why couldn't they at least do what Dreamgirls did and change the names?
Dreamgirls didn't "change the names" yes it was LOOSELY based on the Supremes but the story line was completely written. This story was actually BASED on real events. I don't believe Little Walter was a murder..it was just to add some dramatics to movie and to be honest I thought it was kind of comedic how he did it. This is being taken too seriously...and for the person who wrote the thread and said that "These people" were trash...maybe you should check up on some history
shareI agree that it was outrageous that they should make something up like this. You don't simply turn a man into a murder to make your movie more dramatic.
In general I have to say I liked the movie because I love this music and I'm glad to see that, although the movie was not totally accurate, at least these musicians are getting the recognition they deserve.
My preference would have to seen more of Howlin Wolf who I consider a better singer than Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf's band did some incredible complex blues arrangements that you don't hear in Muddy's songs.
Basically the movie just wanted to show you how crazy Little Walter was without going into too much detail, movies do this all the time.
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It's not true.
But why do people think the guy was dead? Seemed obvious to me that they would not have just driven away after with no comeback if it had been murder.
I got it was just a wounding.
Biopics are about the last place in the world to go to for reliable information. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" is a wonderful film, but when they showed it to George M. Cohan, his response was "Great film! Who's it about?" Cohan was married twice, and neither of his wives was named Mary, but they needed to build up the role for Joan Leslie, so . . .
That doesn't compare, of course, to making Little Walter into a murderer. And they fudged lots of other details too. But filmmakers have no qualms about lying to us if they think they need to.
Worst biopic of all time? I'd nominate "The Babe Ruth Story," with the most transparently phony ending of all time. But there's probably a worse one I haven't seen.
It's one thing to have Little Walter hit on Muddy's wife, but making him a murderer seems a little extreme for artistic license.
I am not sure how nationally known Little Walter was at that time, but would it be possible that the person he shot did not know there was another Little Walter?
There have been other times when band took a name that was already used but did not know it.
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