Would be nice to binge watch this one right after Joy. You'd get something of a corporate version of Scarface.
Jennifer Lawrence to Play Elizabeth Holmes in Movie about Theranos
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#43We don't even know how the story ends! How can you write a movie script on this? I guess they want a trilogy?
When has accuracy ever been required in the pursuit of money?
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
When Hollywood trots out an endless procession of superhero sequels dumbed down for a global audience you can complain about greed and lament that they've run out of ideas. When Hollywood mythologizes a real story that has captured the public imagination and is emblematic of our era, it's Hollywood at it's finest. It's Hollywood doing exactly what it ought to be doing but rarely does.
> When Hollywood mythologizes a real story that has captured the public imagination and is emblematic of our era, it's Hollywood at it's finest. It's Hollywood doing exactly what it ought to be doing but rarely does. The problem is that Hollywood sometimes "mythologizes" a real story in the vernacular, non-academic sense of the quoted term: It adopts a false narrative, often in the form of a conspiracy theory, which…
I don't have a problem with that. A generation from now we'll have the Theranos movie, and no one will be too uptight about the specifics of what happened- that's a job for journalists and historians, they're a different breed of storyteller than what you conventionally find in Hollywood, with different goals. It's more important to get the tone right than the details.
I mean, the biggest movie made about the vietnam war was 'Apocalypse Now'. It was made up. None of that actually happened, but it set the tone for how the war is remembered for millions who were never actually there. As factual accounts get passed through the generations they become myths, and myths are what they are because they're worth remembering.
And with regards to Holmes reputation, well, from where she's at now, there's nowhere to go but up. As for all her investors: they deserve what they've got coming.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
> When Hollywood mythologizes a real story that has captured the public imagination and is emblematic of our era, it's Hollywood at it's finest. It's Hollywood doing exactly what it ought to be doing but rarely does. The problem is that Hollywood sometimes "mythologizes" a real story in the vernacular, non-academic sense of the quoted term: It adopts a false narrative, often in the form of a conspiracy theory, which…
I don't have a problem with that. A generation from now we'll have the Theranos movie, and no one will be too uptight about the specifics of what happened- that's a job for journalists and historians, they're a different breed of storyteller than what you conventionally find in Hollywood, with different goals. It's more important to get the tone right than the details. I mean, the biggest movie made about the vietnam…
> A generation from now we'll have the Theranos movie, and no one will be too uptight about the specifics of what happened .... It's more important to get the tone right than the details.
That strikes me as a very Stalinist take on things. I would paraphrase it as the movie director's saying: It doesn't matter how many actual, real, flesh-and-blood people I hurt; what matters is that I advance what I imagine to be the greater long-term good. (Or, classically: The ends justify the means.)
Not for me, thanks.
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#46Looks like Hollywood is finally taking their cue from Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544788 Hopefully they also end up naming it Unicorn Blood .
Unicorn Blood is an amazing title.
I hope John Woo directs it, so we could have a few slo-mo moments with Doves flying overhead while a greorian chant plays in the background (that's just the opening).
Re: Jennifer Lawrence to Play Elizabeth Holmes in Movie about Theranos
#47In a few decades it will be discovered that the whole Theranos debacle was simply a setup sell Movies and Books. Would be the most awesome setup ever!
Re: Jennifer Lawrence to Play Elizabeth Holmes in Movie about Theranos
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
> When Hollywood mythologizes a real story that has captured the public imagination and is emblematic of our era, it's Hollywood at it's finest. It's Hollywood doing exactly what it ought to be doing but rarely does. The problem is that Hollywood sometimes "mythologizes" a real story in the vernacular, non-academic sense of the quoted term: It adopts a false narrative, often in the form of a conspiracy theory, which…
I don't have a problem with that. A generation from now we'll have the Theranos movie, and no one will be too uptight about the specifics of what happened- that's a job for journalists and historians, they're a different breed of storyteller than what you conventionally find in Hollywood, with different goals. It's more important to get the tone right than the details. I mean, the biggest movie made about the vietnam…
> As for all her investors: they deserve what they've got coming.
Why is that?
Re: Jennifer Lawrence to Play Elizabeth Holmes in Movie about Theranos
#49In a few decades it will be discovered that the whole Theranos debacle was simply a setup sell Movies and Books. Would be the most awesome setup ever!
Given how much movies often cost it seems like you could indeed fund a really really really dysfunctional team to build a very bad idea as a startup, watch the fireworks, and make a movie from it.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
> When Hollywood mythologizes a real story that has captured the public imagination and is emblematic of our era, it's Hollywood at it's finest. It's Hollywood doing exactly what it ought to be doing but rarely does. The problem is that Hollywood sometimes "mythologizes" a real story in the vernacular, non-academic sense of the quoted term: It adopts a false narrative, often in the form of a conspiracy theory, which…
I don't have a problem with that. A generation from now we'll have the Theranos movie, and no one will be too uptight about the specifics of what happened- that's a job for journalists and historians, they're a different breed of storyteller than what you conventionally find in Hollywood, with different goals. It's more important to get the tone right than the details. I mean, the biggest movie made about the vietnam…
> with regards to Holmes reputation, well, from where she's at now, there's nowhere to go but up
It's not impossible to imagine a telling of this story that's actually sympathetic to Holmes: a very smart young woman has an idea, the idea leads to a ton of money and hype being dropped on her head, and by the time she realizes the idea won't work she's been strapped into a rocket that's going to launch regardless. A story of being trapped inside a prison of one's own creation.
(I'm not saying this angle necessarily fits the facts, but movies are stories first, and this would be one way to turn Theranos into an audience-engaging story.)