Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Antwone Fisher”
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Veronica Wells
The time frame
The way the movie was shot, it would seem that Antwone grew up in the ’70’s or ’80’s. But in reality, Antwone grew up in the sixties and seventies. In an interview with About.com, he explained why they decided to make the movie more current.
I was born in 1959 but for the movie’s sake, we decided [to change it] so that children – kids – would find it contemporary. If we did it like I grew up in the ’60s and ’70s, then some kids might say, “Well, that’s an old story.” And people might say that a long time has passed since then. But we wanted it to be current so that people would identify with it more.
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