Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, the 2007 spoof starring John C. Reilly as a Johnny Cash–like singer, so aptly skewered the biopic’s dreary formulas that it exposed the absurd phoniness of the entire genre and its lazy conventions. It didn’t, however, stop biopics from continuing to proliferate — and from maintaining adherence to standard-issue clichés, as evidenced by two of this year’s Oscar front-runners, The Imitation Game (about code-breaker Alan Turing) and The Theory of Everything (about scientist Stephen Hawking). Both of those character studies go out of their way to maintain the mold set by their predecessors, taking a safe, superficial approach to their subjects and, in the process, delivering portraits of brave, intellectual men that are, themselves, timid and simplistic. Their shared failure stems from a fear of showing life, and people, as they really are — and from a concurrent belief that telling a story...
- 12/21/2014
- by Nick Schager
- Vulture
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