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Aug 8, 2013 · Lee Daniels' The Butler Trailer. Lee Daniels directs Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey who portray husband and wife Cecil and Gloria Gaines. The movie is based on real-life White House butler Eugene Allen, who worked in the White House under eight presidents, coming of age during segregation and living to see a black man be elected to the White ...
Loosely based on the real life of Eugene Allen, who worked in the White House for decades, the film stars Forest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, an African-American who is a witness of notable political and social events of the 20th century during his 34-year tenure serving as a White House butler.
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Daniels’ film replaces the real Eugene Allen with the fictional Cecil Gaines, using the unique perspective of a White House butler as a jumping-off point to explore questions of race in the ...
His early life: FICTIONAL. The Butler, with its Forrest Gump -like ambition to touch on every significant moment and movement in the country’s 20th century racial history, begins by showing...
Aug 12, 2013 · “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” is a fictionalized version of Allen’s life that casts Forest Whitaker in the title role as Cecil Gaines. The film powerfully makes visible this invisible man who wears one face on the job and another as the moderate father of a radical son during a politically polarized period of American history.
Aug 15, 2013 · But the names have been changed: Allen and his wife, Helene, are called Cecil and Gloria Gaines. (They’re played by Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey.) At least one key character, Cecil’s...
Aug 5, 2022 · While Strong wrote the script with Allen in his mind, Cecil is somewhat of a composite character. “The film is very much inspired by the story of Eugene Allen,” he said in an interview. “But the Gaines family is a fictional family, but they are representatives [of] so many truths, of so many different people.”.
