CrisR Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Do you think TCM would do something for Freeman's 80th in June and if so what movies do you think they should air? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 I love how Morgan Freeman thinks, if we can get the rest of people to think the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamradio Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Morgan Freeman made a great president in "Deep Impact" (1998). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 I first started seeing Morgan Freeman movies on flights going to France. When I went to South Korea it was even a longer flight and they had one of his movies on. The first time I went to Japan, they had one of his movies on. Morgan Freeman co-starred with all these other big movie stars like Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford and Denzel Washington. BUT he always stole the scenes from them and I could never take my eyes away from him. After that, I always thought of Morgan Freeman as my lucky charm when I was flying over all those miles of oceans. His face and voice were certainly very comforting. These two Great attributes have certainly endeared to all his fans all over the world. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 I remember him from THE ELECTRIC COMPANY which he doesn't think about much these days as part of his legacy. I know he has a longer filmography than I'm familiar with, but as many of them are him in supporting roles, I suppose those in which those roles have more of his presence in them( despite a supporting role) would be good choices. TCM has shown DRIVING MISS DAISY before, so I'm sure it would make the cut, but I wouldn't know where to begin as far as any others. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 I'd vote for "The Shawshank Redemption," "Glory," "Lean on Me," "Invictus" and "Street Smart." By the way, he's amazing early on in "Brubaker" as a berserk prisoner opposite Robert Redford's title character -- the undercover warden posing as a new inmate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 The only Morgan Freeman movie I can think of that airs with any regularity on TCM is Marie: a True Story, an MGM release from 1985 that stars Sissy Spacek and Jeff Daniels and which, despite its big-name cast, has a very made-for-TV movie feel to it. A pre-stardom Freeman has a small part as a corrupt state parole board official. If TCM could scrounge up enough films to make a night's worth of Freeman programming, I could almost guarantee this would be one of them. Before reading this thread, it had never occurred to me how little of Freeman we see on this network, but Driving Miss Daisy last aired four years ago; Unforgiven last aired nine years ago, and The Shawshank Redemption, Million Dollar Baby and Street Smart have never aired on TCM. So, I'm thinking a Freeman tribute night is highly unlikely. TCM did just show Brubaker for the first time ever during its prison movie showcase in January. Maybe that's a film they have the rights to for a certain period of time and could use again in a pinch. I don't pretend I really have insider info about how this stuff works, but it appears that sometimes they have a window of time of several months during which they can air a certain out-of-library movie. I remember last year when TCM showed Young Frankenstein again just a few days after its initial airing for a hastily assembled Gene Wilder tribute night, and here it is about to come around again for 31 Days. So, that appears to be a Fox film TCM has the rights to air a certain number of times during a window of six months or whatever. Maybe there's a similar situation with Brubaker, also a Fox film. So, maybe a double feature of Marie and Brubaker, and we could call that a Morgan Freeman night, even though he has small parts in both of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Before reading this thread, it had never occurred to me how little of Freeman we see on this network, but Driving Miss Daisy last aired four years ago; Unforgiven last aired nine years ago, and The Shawshank Redemption, Million Dollar Baby and Street Smart have never aired on TCM. So, I'm thinking a Freeman tribute night is highly unlikely. TCM has shown "Glory" a couple of times during the past year. It was included in the annual Memorial Day marathon in May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Seems to me I just saw "Driving Miss Daisy" on TCM not too long ago. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 Ooh, Glory! Boy for some reason, I completely forgot about Freeman being in that one. Probably because it's such a vehicle for Denzel Washington, one of the films that helped launch his stardom. Yes, it does show up on TCM regularly. They could definitely show that one. Sorry for leaving it out. As for Driving Miss Daisy, I'm using MovieCollectorOH's indispensable database as my resource. It says TCM's most recent airing of that film was May, 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 "Lean on Me" (1989) is the story of Joe Clark, the controversial principal of an inner-city high school in Paterson, New Jersey. Clark's unorthodox methods even earned him a 1988 Time magazine cover (pictured below). Directed by Oscar-winner John G. Avildsen ("Rocky"), "Lean on Me" was a breakthrough film for Freeman in a watershed year for his career. He also appeared in "Driving Miss Daisy" and "Glory" nine months after this first significant star vehicle was released. Here's my favorite scene from "Lean on Me": 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Unless I missed seeing it somehow, no one has yet mentioned Morgan Freeman's top billed performance as the old pro cop who's partnered with a brash young one played by Brad Pitt, both of whom are in search of a sadistic serial killer in one of the best and most chilling thrillers made in the past few decades...1995's Se7en. (...this one should be included in any Freeman tribute, I'd say...although, for those who have never seen this one, just be sure to have a strong stomach) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Unless I missed seeing it somehow, no one has yet mentioned Morgan Freeman's top billed performance as the old pro cop who's partnered with a brash young one played by Brad Pitt, both of whom are in search of a sadistic serial killer in one of the best and most chilling thrillers made in the past few decades...1995's Se7en. (...this one should be included in any Freeman tribute, I'd say...although, for those who have never seen this one, just be sure to have a strong stomach) It's No. 2 on the video list of Freeman's Top 10 performances I posted earlier. Denzel Washington recently lamented the fact that he turned down the dramas "Michael Clayton" and "Se7en," although he didn't say whether he was offered the Freeman role or the Brad Pitt part in the latter film. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewhite2000 Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 TCM has actually aired Se7en one time, during 31 Days of Oscar in 2008. I distinctly remember watching it and am pretty sure I have it recorded on VHS somewhere. It's so graphic and relentlessly grim, I feel sure it would be condemned to late night if TCM were to ever air it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Unless I missed seeing it somehow, no one has yet mentioned Morgan Freeman's top billed performance as the old pro cop who's partnered with a brash young one played by Brad Pitt, both of whom are in search of a sadistic serial killer in one of the best and most chilling thrillers made in the past few decades...1995's Se7en. (...this one should be included in any Freeman tribute, I'd say...although, for those who have never seen this one, just be sure to have a strong stomach) Yeah, it's a fantastic performance by Freeman, and one that shows Pitt is capable of being more than a pretty face. And throwing in KEVIN SPACEY didn't hurt either. But I do agree... The squeamish should watch it with a bucket at hand. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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