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1. www.rogerebert.com › features › history-is-the"History is the Backdrop": Lee Daniels discusses "Lee Daniels ...

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   Aug 16, 2013 · Nell Minow August 16, 2013. Tweet. "Lee Daniels' The Butler". "Lee Daniels' The Butler" is inspired by the real-life story of a black man who worked in the White House for decades, serving eight Presidents from Truman to Reagan. Born in the Jim Crow-era South of lynchings and segregation, Eugene Allen lived long enough to cast a vote for Barack ...

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   Aug 20, 2013 · One walks out of the theater after seeing Lee Daniels’ The Butler with the distinct feeling of being both powerfully moved and overwhelmed. At the end of the day, director Daniels tries to fit way too much history into a film that begged for fewer and more focused relationships and storylines. Trying to examine the entire century of American ...

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   Aug 9, 2013 · The director of “Precious” and “ The Paperboy ” plays things relatively straight in “ Lee Daniels ’ The Butler ,” a sprawling, highly fictional biopic of longtime White House butler ...

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   Published on August 2, 2013 04:00AM EDT. Just three days after Barack Obama won the presidential election in 2008, The Washington Post ran a profile of Eugene Allen, a longtime White House butler ...

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   Aug 11, 2013 · Review: Lee Daniels’ The Butler. With the film, Lee Daniels quietly pushes his talent for hashing out visceral, violent emotions into unexpected dramatic terrain. Danny Strong very loosely adapted Lee Daniels’ The Butler from a 2008 Washington Post article by Wil Haygood, detailing the life of Eugene Allen, a black butler who served at the ...

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   Aug 16, 2013 · Julieigo. Apr 7, 2015. The Butler is a dramatic film directed by Lee DANIELS, the main actors are Forest WHITAKER, Robin WILLIAMS and Mariah CARREY also plays in the film. The first date of release is August 5th 2013. I have a liking for the story and the moral of the movie because for me it is important to point racism out to public because we ...

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   Is Lee Daniels' 'the Butler' a true story?

   • “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” is, by any conventional measure, a rarity: a major Hollywood film production that focuses on African American history by using a largely black cast to tell the story. And this is not just any story. The film, which stars Forrest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey, details a sort of counter-narrative of the civil rights era.

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   What is the theme of the Butler by Lee Daniels?

   • The Butler, by Lee Daniels, focuses on the Gaines’ family and its interaction with the various presidential families that the main character served in his time as the White House butler. However, it also chronicled the burgeoning movements of the civil rights era that were taken across the United States.

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   Is the Butler based on a true story?

   • There are plenty of intensely moving moments in this expansive biopic, based very loosely on a real White House butler named Eugene Allen, who was profiled by Wil Haygood in a 2008 Washington Post feature. Lee Daniels’ The Butler. At cinemas throughout New England. By Glenn Rifkin Lee Daniels — the director of THE BUTLER.

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   What is the story of the Butler about?

   • The Butler tells the story of a White House butler who served eight American presidents over three decades. The film traces the dramatic changes that swept American society during this time, from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected this man’s life and family.

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9. www.oprah.com › entertainment › behind-the-scenes-ofBehind the Scenes of Lee Daniels' The Butler - Oprah.com

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   Aug 13, 2013 · The Butler is the story of a man who becomes head butler in the Eisenhower White House and stays on all the way through the Reagan administration. Based on a true story, it is at once epic and intimate, harrowing and astute. We watch as both a nation and a family come undone and then, little by little, begin to heal—growing stronger in the ...