Thursday, July 29, 2010
The Temptations
I believe the movie "The Temptations" should go down as one of the greatest films in history. I fell in love with the movie from the moment I first saw it. I watched it over and over! That was a few years back. I still watch it from time to time though. An interesting thing about me watching this movie was when I first saw the movie, I had never heard of an old group named The Temptations so I didn't even think they really existed. I assumed that they were just a made up group that came from the mind of some very creative movie director. So when I discovered that they were actually a real group and that the movie was based on a true story, that made the movie even better in my eyes. This movie made me fall in love with the music that the original Temptations had made and I listened to it often during a certain period of time. All the characters did a great job with the characters they were acting out. The movie was so real to me that by the time I saw a picture of the real Temptations, they looked like the fake Temptations to me. The story line of the movie is historical. I don't know what was true and what wasn't, but all I know is that the movie exemplified a legacy for the Temptations. I thought that David Ruffin was the most interesting character out of the group. He was a great singer and performer but had some bad problems off of the stage. He couldn't resist the temptation of drugs and that ended up being his downfall. I also like how Otis Williams and Melvin Franklin started something big and stuck to it the whole way through the good times and the bad. And although it was sad, I thought the scene in which Paul Williams killed himself was pretty good too. The movie couldn't have been set up in any better way.
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