Michael Reagan: 'The Butler' a 'bunch of lies'
Michael Reagan, son of former President Ronald Reagan, slammed the historical accuracy of the movie 'The Butler,' saying it inaccurately portrayed his father as 'racist.'
Reagan penned a scathing reviewpublished Tuesday on the website Newsmax, calling the film 'a bunch of lies.'
'There you go again, Hollywood,' Reagan wrote. 'You've taken a great story about a real person and real events and twisted it into a bunch of lies. You took the true story of Eugene Allen, the White House butler who served eight presidents from 1952 to 1986, and turned it into a clichéd 'message movie.''
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In the film, Forest Whitaker plays White House butler Cecil Gaines, whom Reagan says is based on Eugene Allen. Reagan criticizes the script of the movie, saying the story of the fictional Gaines does not resemble the true story of Allen's life.
'After comparing Hollywood's absurd version of Eugene Allen's life story with the truth, you wonder why the producers didn't just call it 'The Butler from Another Planet,'' he wrote.
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Reagan also attacked the portrayal of his father, President Reagan, played in the film by Alan Rickman, suggesting that the film depicted Reagan as racist.
'But facts don't matter to Hollywood's creative propagandists. Truth is too complicated and not dramatic enough for scriptwriters, who think in minute terms, not the big picture, when it comes to a conservative,' Reagan wrote. 'Despite what Hollywood's liberal hacks believe, my father didn't see people in colors. He saw them as individual Americans. If the liberals in Hollywood - and Washington - ever start looking at people the way he did, the country will be a lot better off.'
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