April Dannette I think Jack Slater was making a joke about the actor laurence fishburne who played in matrix as Morpheus and now in the Tina Turner movie as Ike. In matrix they had to choose a path to take that being a pill in the matrix.The red pill symbolizes Knowledge, freedom, and the brutal truths of reality. The blue pill symbolizes Security, happiness and the blissful ignorance of illusion. Still this is a serious matter about domestic violence in a relationship so I understand why his comment would be upsetting. Our family just suffered the lost of a loved one from domestic violence in April of this year. So domestic violence is a serious matter. I guess he was trying to lighten the mood but it didn’t help.
Floyd1504 i remember that was the only "backlash" of the reviews for this film: "Tina was known for her voice & her LEGS, not "guns", (arms)." i saw this in the cinema at age 20/21, and vividly remember the early 90s: MADONNA'S "guns" & ppl's "worship of the weights" was why Angela was trained like that.
I love me some Laurence Fishburne and as much pain as the character brings to me, being a women who suffered a abusive relationship. He did an amazing job playing this man
Yup, just like Danny Glover's performance in The Color Purple. He and Whoopi knocked that movie out along with every other actor/actress in that movie. Mister was a horrible person and Glover played him perfectly!
I don't normally believe in "ties" for winning an Oscar but I do believe in 1994 the Best Actress should've been handed to both Holly Hunter and Angela Bassett --- they were both spectacular in their roles and were very deserving of it
Angie was robbed for that oscar! I know Holly won and not saying she didn't deserve a win....but not over Angela. No, damn, way! MOst of us know she should have won....that is a win in itself.
As muh as I adore Angela Bassett in that movie, I think Holly Hunter's win was completely deserved. If anything, it should have been a tie between them.
Nah, I said it right. She's the best. Never seen or heard of a female actress that can play just about any role and slay at it, if she's not the best she's definitely ONE of the best.
A lot of people don't...can hide it fairly well...to cover up abuse..can ruin career if it's public knowledge....I did the same my entire life people don't believe me when I tell them my story...also Tina got a whole team of professional working with her in order to look the way she did...so does other celebrities...u can tell it cost bed hopa Lopez a lot ...to do the SAME
Jennifer Ferreras she said she did not see the whole movie because she dealt with so much abuse in real life that she didn’t need to see it. This interview was done when Ike was still alive though so I don’t know if she changed her mind and watched these incredibly talented actors.
@@burlhorse61 nope ..I think she may have seen more clips but still hasn't watched the movie in full she said this a couple of years ago on oprahs next chaotee
I'm glad they chose Angela for the role of Tina because she is an amazing actress (Yale School of Drama) and watching the film when I was a kid made me appreciate acting and respect Tina Turner. Till this day Angela Bassett is one of my favorite actors. I wouldn't have wanted someone who looked "more" like Tina, but was a mediocre actor because then the movie wouldn't have gotten the accolades it deserved. Like it or love it, both Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne did an excellent job portraying their characters.
It was '93 & still a pretty racist achievement to fulfill in the 'A' listers society of Hollywood. Halle Berry made history as the very first black actor to ever win one and you see what she did & the risky lengths she took in Monster's Ball to get it. She may as well had been having real sex as explicit as she got with Billy Bob Thornton in that movies sex scene. There's a lot of black actors have definitely deserved to win one but never have or ever will. That's why I don't really pay attention to the Oscars & their standards, it's just a popularity game & win more than anything else.
Well, the thing is, Holly Hunter did a movie for Miramax called The Piano, and she won Best Actress... needless to say anything else. If you know Miramax and the Oscars, you know all the injustice behind it.
Lawrence played the heck outta Ike, people for years were referring to him a Ike Turner. He don’t look like that man in the first, but he played the heck outta that part.
"difficult for black women singing rock & roll" 😁. they STOLE the genre then tried to systemically lock us out of it! Tina was gracious through it all but probably was like LOOK I AM ROCK & ROLL!!!!!!
1st of all: you cannot "steal" a genre. One genre will birth another genre. Music does what everything does: EVOLVE, ADVANCE. One branch will split after branch. Rock isn't just "one" genre; it can be split into many different subdivisions and eras. So yea, there's _classic rock_ too. Rock itself emerged from and with genres that existed before. You cannot "invent" something that is based on something else. Rock was created, discovered - but not "invented". 2nd: who "created/invented" the genre is actually irrelevant. It does not change the fact that white ppl are more into Rock than black folks. The same black folks that exclude themselves from the Rock bc they don't like the genre are the same who show interest in Rock when it comes to stupid questions like _who "inveted" Rock music?"
@@fredwerza3478 yes she left I don't think she ran that may not be in the book I'll get it read the book the movie is very fictional all though I love 😚 Tina in the end she was very sick smh
Absolutely! This is one of the best biopics. The only other one that I feel is just as brilliantly written, acted, directed, and cast is Brian Wilson’s biopic, “Love & Mercy.” I recommend it to anyone who loves a GREAT biopic that isn’t afraid to be raw, brutally honest, earnest, and real. You’ll laugh and you’ll cry; you’ll feel elation, as well as great empathy or compassion, followed by a joyful contentment to see how Brian Wilson survived against the odds.
I have to say Angela B is one of the most versatile awesome actress she has played everybody mom wife a bunch of high profile movie and u never say damn her again becuz shes so damn good u truly forget! thats talent! :-)
The fact that Tina still smile telling how they met goes to show how in awe of him she was. ....even after all the turmoil her smile was still that young star struck girl that couldn't believe Ike was impressed with her
Well, his Schizophrenia got worse as time went on which probably enhanced his negative qualities to the point of him becoming a villain without even realising it.
I felt Angela captured the essence of Tina & what she went through. Tina had & has a very unique look & it would been impossible to find someone "perfect". In movie bio's, you have to stretch it a bit & be flexible. Look at how Judy Davis played Judy Garland - didn't look like her, but she captured the personality & energy.
Though the film took its story from Tina Turner's autobiography, I, Tina, it was determined to be only loosely based from the book, meaning certain events in the film were "fictionalized for dramatic purposes".[1] Examples of the fictionalized scenes include: In the film, Tina's constant friend during the film, "Jackie" (played by Vanessa Bell Calloway), was put in the story. Tina Turner never had a friend named Jackie. The same friend is not only a member of The Ikettes but is also shown as the person who visits Tina in the hospital after her attempted suicide and later converts Tina to Nichiren Buddhism and chants "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo" in front of the "Gohonzon". The "friend" apparently was a combination of friends from Turner's past, including members of the Ikettes and friends from her and Ike's entourage. When Anna Mae Bullock sees Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm perform, Ike is shown as the front man. While the real-life Ike Turner was a band leader and organizer, he often had other performers, particularly male singers, fronting the band. Turner had stage fright. The original vocalist behind "Rocket 88", sung by Lawrence Fishburne as Ike in the movie, was Jackie Brenston. During Anna Mae's first performance with Ike and the Kings of Rhythm, Ike is shown playing guitar. But Tina and Ike stated Tina sung after being given a microphone by the band's drummer and singing while Ike was playing piano during an intermission, rather than a live performance as indicated in the film though she later did front the band the night she began singing with them. A reenactment shows Tina recording her first song, which is called "Tina's Wish", on the film's soundtrack. However, it's actually a re-recording Tina did of an old Ike and Tina song, "Make Me Over", from the Ike and Tina album, Nutbush City Limits, released in 1973. Tina's first recording (as "Little Ann") was actually singing background on one of Ike's songs, "Box Top". During the scene where Ike and Tina are scheduled to perform at the Apollo Theater in 1960, the bill has Martha and the Vandellas and Otis Redding as fellow headliners. In reality, Martha and the Vandellas hadn't formed yet, with several of them performing in another different vocal group called the Del-Phis, while Redding had yet to record his first single and was fronting several bands. The film shows Tina giving birth to Ike's son who is named Craig but in reality, Craig Turner was Tina's child with another man, Raymond Hill. Ike and Tina did not have a child until 1960, when son Ronnie Turner was born and Ronnie would be their only child; Tina was pregnant with Ike's child in 1968 but allegedly had an abortion. Like Vanessa Bell Calloway's character "Jackie", there was no "Fross", "Reggie" or "Spider" in Ike and Tina's private circle. While Tina mentions that there were accounts of Ike being abusive to her, there was no incident where Ike pushed cake in Tina's face leading to a food fight in the diner. The reenactment is a dramatization of an incident Tina Turner herself accounted in her autobiography saying that while waiting for food, a waitress gave her cake. Though Tina said she hadn't ordered it, Ike told her to eat it. In one scene, Tina calls her mother and tells her that she's heading over to her house in St. Louis to hide from Ike Turner. After Ike locates where Tina is, he berates her for trying to escape and makes it appear as if Ike had gotten word about what Tina was doing from her mother but in her memoirs, Tina Turner said that Ike knew where to seek her out. When Ike and Tina are performing "Proud Mary", the timeline has it around 1968, with them opening for The Rolling Stones. Creedence Clearwater Revival's original version of "Proud Mary" was not released until January 1969, and Ike and Tina did not include the song in their act until 1970. Also, Ike and Tina opened for the Stones twice, in 1966 on their UK tour and in 1969 on their US tour. The film alleges that Ike and Tina did not have a hit after "A Fool in Love" was released but, in truth, the duo had several hit singles between the release of "A Fool in Love" and "River Deep - Mountain High", including "It's Gonna Work Out Fine", "I Idolize You", "Tra La La" and "Poor Fool". The film's most infamous scene showcases "Ike" committing what looks like an act of rape on "Tina" after beating her up in the studio. Both Turners denied the rape scene reenacted in the film but Tina writes in her memoirs that after Ike would physically assault her, he would ask for sex stating Ike "instilled fear" in her. In one scene, "Tina" is shown in a drugged state where her Ikettes noticed that she had attempted suicide, with the timeline being given as 1974. In real life, the incident occurred in 1969 before a show in Los Angeles and occurred shortly after Tina learned one of her friends and a member of the Ikettes was pregnant with Ike Turner's child. When Tina Turner performs at the Ritz, the film has the timeline at 1983 and the host announces her arrival as her "debut solo performance", but Tina had first performed at the theater in 1981. Also proven to be inaccurate was Ike Turner's visit to the theater where he failed at silencing Tina with his gun. In truth, Ike Turner was never at the Ritz. In fact, Ike Turner had not been seen in public for years following his and Tina's divorce in 1978 and had remained in Los Angeles. Though the film depicts Tina Turner as having addressed the courtroom to retain her stage name, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 1996, she denies speaking up but said her lawyer had brought it up in court after Tina advised her lawyer to drop a potential financial support suit against Ike as their divorce court dragged on for a year. The film states at the end that Private Dancer was Tina Turner's first solo album when it was actually her fifth solo album. Her previous four albums were Tina Turns the Country On!, Acid Queen, Rough, and Love Explosion. It also concluded that Ike Turner was still serving prison for drug possession; he had actually been released from jail after being granted parole in 1991.
Thank you for piecing together all the bits and pieces clearly available on Wikipedia. Did you remember that they'd signed away their right to make a movie of their lives... You're welcome learned that this bit like you the Internet 😒
Angela Bassett & Tina Turner's ancestors must've crossed paths somehow because (forget the hair & makeup) facially they look like sisters in that shot (6:40). Also, THANK GOD this movie was made in 1993 & not 2013. I don't even want to imagine someone like Beyonce being "in talks" to forcibly play this icon. This role belonged to Ms. Bassett & anytime I watch it, I come out feeling like I just conquered something.
angela & laurence's acting was the best of any biopic about musicians. i just re-watched the movie a few days ago and it still makes me laugh, cry and everything in between
So many messages in the movie. Persevere, find your core being, never stop...and there are people in your life for a reason. Coming in and going out. Their relationship was karmic as hell for sure. It is a testimony to spirit of a human... and both women deserve the accolades. Powerful!
She was so stunning! Tina Turner was right when she told Angela that she didn’t do any mimicking, she reached down deep and discovered her inner Tina and showed the world! Awesome Job! RIP Tina!
I like the end where Tina says theres alot of things I can do but singing and dancing is one of them. Also when Angela and Tina are dressed in black, they look FAB!! : )
Laurence and Angela were robbed of oscars . Laurence is so talented he can act and he sang ikes parts and I think his voice is better. it's too bad ike was such a head case wife beater bc he is credited with the first ever rock n roll song and he didn't get the propers he would have gotten if he wasn't such a monster to his wife. let's be honest white people stole rock n roll from black people which is a mix of the Blues and gospel. white people had the money and Polish to package it to the masses .
Did you know Robin Givens and Halle Berry was up for the same role???....and actually Tina wanted Robin because she said Robin looked the most like her.
Tina turner was on board with her biopic. Selena's famaly was on board with her biopic. chilli and t boz were on board with the tlc biopic, and the aaliyah biopic.......
WHOA---look at 'em bulging biceps Angela's got! Tina never had arms like THAT! Don't know if Angela pumped her arms too hard, but it's distracting looking at those arms. Otherwise great job by Angela in the movie, I saw it several times.
shihlin1 I think they were trying to distract from Angela not having the legs. Angela said in interviews that she worked out for about 3 hours and then did about 10 of learning the routines.
You guys..Tina does have muscular arms. I recall a few clips on ytube of her on stage and I was shocked to see she had muscle definition. I recall her once saying that she does not work out or exercise outside of dancing on tour or rehearsing. I was like 😳
I saw this movie when I was eleven and read her bio when I was 13. I wish it had been more factual. I do believe that Angela Bassett should have won the Oscar for this
I love the both of them. And she did an amazing job in doing Tina Turner movie. 2 amazing beautiful woman 2020 and I have the movie and I got my grandkids loving her music and the movie too. I tell you when I'm gone they will always remember me in all that I love especially all the movies that I collected since I was a very young girl. I wish them many blessings
I am a 63 yo white woman..Tina Turner has been my hero since the 80's..She has endured and loved..She has inspired me in many ways..Thank you to a friend I never met..Oh I will miss you♥️♥️
25 years later and Angela Bassett still looks phenomenal!
She never age
YES SHE DOES...PERIODtttt
Yes, that outfit, a pink suit, looked great on her. Gail interviewed her was fir the Oscar I think.
Queen Romonda!
Yes she does! She's gorgeous!
Angela Bassett was dynamite as Tina but oh my Lawrence Fishburne scares me to this day! His acting was surreal!
SweetTea742 OMG yessss!
Whatcha going to do Anne ? 😂😂
Jack Slater what the hell does that mean what is wrong with you you jackass
I know they both did a phenomenal job.
April Dannette I think Jack Slater was making a joke about the actor laurence fishburne who played in matrix as Morpheus and now in the Tina Turner movie as Ike. In matrix they had to choose a path to take that being a pill in the matrix.The red pill symbolizes Knowledge, freedom, and the brutal truths of reality. The blue pill symbolizes Security, happiness and the blissful ignorance of illusion. Still this is a serious matter about domestic violence in a relationship so I understand why his comment would be upsetting. Our family just suffered the lost of a loved one from domestic violence in April of this year. So domestic violence is a serious matter. I guess he was trying to lighten the mood but it didn’t help.
Angela Bassett got those ARMS!
Fire Marshall Bill and Tina's got the LEGS
Floyd1504
i remember that was the only "backlash" of the reviews for this film:
"Tina was known for her voice & her LEGS, not "guns", (arms)."
i saw this in the cinema at age 20/21, and vividly remember the early 90s: MADONNA'S "guns" & ppl's "worship of the weights" was why Angela was trained like that.
Best arms in hollywood
My dad said "damn she got the muscles, she couldve beat his ass!" 😂😂
I swear I wanted my arms like that but my bf said it wouldn't look nice but I think it's sexy!
Laurence Fishburne performance was just as good as Angela's even tho we hated his character
@Toni Sumblin
He scared me too. That's how you know how great of an actor he is because he made us think he was really ike
I love me some Laurence Fishburne and as much pain as the character brings to me, being a women who suffered a abusive relationship. He did an amazing job playing this man
So true.
Yup, just like Danny Glover's performance in The Color Purple. He and Whoopi knocked that movie out along with every other actor/actress in that movie. Mister was a horrible person and Glover played him perfectly!
@Toni Sumblin great actor indeed
I strongly believe that Angela Bassette should have received OSCAR over this movie
Angela Bassett was robbed!
She should have received many oscars for her many performances!!!
100% agree, she should’ve won an Oscar for her amazing performance
They messed her over big time!!!!
I don't normally believe in "ties" for winning an Oscar but I do believe in 1994 the Best Actress should've been handed to both Holly Hunter and Angela Bassett --- they were both spectacular in their roles and were very deserving of it
They couldn't of found a more perfect actress to portray Tina Turner like Angela Basset did.
chris park I must agree brother
AGREED! I'm watching it now as I type!
Angie was robbed for that oscar! I know Holly won and not saying she didn't deserve a win....but not over Angela. No, damn, way! MOst of us know she should have won....that is a win in itself.
As muh as I adore Angela Bassett in that movie, I think Holly Hunter's win was completely deserved. If anything, it should have been a tie between them.
folkosire Oh please it’s clearly because she was African-American that she did not win.
HollyWeird DNT Care ABOUT the Lives of BLKS Just the MONEY We can MAKE so I was NOT Surprised wen she got snubbed🤔
@@daffyduckfan4478 exactly!! But they don't understand that fact.
I never seen a "tie" for Best Actress but I woulda been perfectly OK with Holly and Angela winning it in 1994
Angela Bassett is the best actress of ALL TIME in my opinion!
That's not opinion that's TRUTH
Clopin Perez i concur
Don't know about best of all time....but she is a very talented actress....naturally gifted...
Nah, I said it right. She's the best. Never seen or heard of a female actress that can play just about any role and slay at it, if she's not the best she's definitely ONE of the best.
Clopin Perez AMEN I AGREE WITH YALL BOTH
Angela & Lawrence acting in this movie was superb and surreal. Especially Lawrence to be Ike, seems like it took alot of guts to be that man.
Ayysia Dansby He made the movie. He was superb!!! What a woman Tina T is
Tina Turner doesn't look like what she has been through
A lot of people don't...can hide it fairly well...to cover up abuse..can ruin career if it's public knowledge....I did the same my entire life people don't believe me when I tell them my story...also Tina got a whole team of professional working with her in order to look the way she did...so does other celebrities...u can tell it cost bed hopa Lopez a lot ...to do the SAME
I wonder how she felt watching the actors reenact the abuse scenes 😣
Jennifer Ferreras she said she did not see the whole movie because she dealt with so much abuse in real life that she didn’t need to see it. This interview was done when Ike was still alive though so I don’t know if she changed her mind and watched these incredibly talented actors.
@@ChangedUpNowWhat so she didn't actually watch the movie?the abuse scenes were awful tbh
@@burlhorse61 nope ..I think she may have seen more clips but still hasn't watched the movie in full she said this a couple of years ago on oprahs next chaotee
It had to be extremely difficult for her. You can recover from abuse but you never forget it.
she's never seen the whole movie - exactly because of that
Her book was better. In the movie it doesn't say, she had a son and was dating Ike band member before she got with Ike. It's all in her book.
Jasmina Vellucciano oh yea I read that book it was something crazy!!
The book is always better then the movie as far as the details
The movie do show all that ... I guess you didn’t have that extra tape
It Was Spider She Was Dating
@@DreDae2011 No it wasn't. In the movie, her sister was dating Spider. Plus Tina's oldest son Craig's father was named Raymond Hill.
I'm glad they chose Angela for the role of Tina because she is an amazing actress (Yale School of Drama) and watching the film when I was a kid made me appreciate acting and respect Tina Turner. Till this day Angela Bassett is one of my favorite actors. I wouldn't have wanted someone who looked "more" like Tina, but was a mediocre actor because then the movie wouldn't have gotten the accolades it deserved. Like it or love it, both Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne did an excellent job portraying their characters.
EXACTLY!
TrelleStar there just aren’t many actresses like her ! She’s incredible!!
I think she actually did look as close to Tina as she could, esp with those wigs and stuff. And those arms....her build was spot on!
The only other actress who coulda done it was Halle Berry --- but I still think Angela was perfect for this role and she smoked it
How Angela didn't win for best actress is a crime! This is one of the best movies I have ever seen!
It was '93 & still a pretty racist achievement to fulfill in the 'A' listers society of Hollywood. Halle Berry made history as the very first black actor to ever win one and you see what she did & the risky lengths she took in Monster's Ball to get it. She may as well had been having real sex as explicit as she got with Billy Bob Thornton in that movies sex scene. There's a lot of black actors have definitely deserved to win one but never have or ever will. That's why I don't really pay attention to the Oscars & their standards, it's just a popularity game & win more than anything else.
This movie was a bunch of lies
@@williambender7770 That has nothing to do with someone's performance though. Rarely any film is accurate when based/inspired on real life events
Well, the thing is, Holly Hunter did a movie for Miramax called The Piano, and she won Best Actress... needless to say anything else. If you know Miramax and the Oscars, you know all the injustice behind it.
Me too!
She went through something, but God is blessing her now!
he was blessing her all along.
I thought it was Bhudda blessing, her?
I have to remind myself that Angela isn't really Tina. She absolutely KILLED this!
No fr. You can get lost in her performance. At the end I almost said who the hell is that when the real Tina popped up lol. Beautiful movie.
Its such a robbery that she didnt win an oscar...
Lawrence played the heck outta Ike, people for years were referring to him a Ike Turner. He don’t look like that man in the first, but he played the heck outta that part.
"difficult for black women singing rock & roll" 😁. they STOLE the genre then tried to systemically lock us out of it! Tina was gracious through it all but probably was like LOOK I AM ROCK & ROLL!!!!!!
Facts! Sister Rosetta Tharpe is the Godmother of Rock & Roll and Tina Turner is the QUEEN!
@@detroitcityman6622 man they are really working on it. They took over R&B and rap is next
Exactly!
1st of all: you cannot "steal" a genre. One genre will birth another genre. Music does what everything does: EVOLVE, ADVANCE. One branch will split after branch. Rock isn't just "one" genre; it can be split into many different subdivisions and eras. So yea, there's _classic rock_ too. Rock itself emerged from and with genres that existed before. You cannot "invent" something that is based on something else. Rock was created, discovered - but not "invented".
2nd: who "created/invented" the genre is actually irrelevant. It does not change the fact that white ppl are more into Rock than black folks. The same black folks that exclude themselves from the Rock bc they don't like the genre are the same who show interest in Rock when it comes to stupid questions like _who "inveted" Rock music?"
Period
Unarguably one of the best biopics of all time. I mean the soundtrack alone.....the acting.....the storytelling....truly a flawless film.
I loved the biopic about Freddie Mercury but it has a sad ending --- this one made you stand and cheer with joy for Tina!
@@fredwerza3478 yes she left I don't think she ran that may not be in the book I'll get it read the book the movie is very fictional all though I love 😚 Tina in the end she was very sick smh
Absolutely! This is one of the best biopics. The only other one that I feel is just as brilliantly written, acted, directed, and cast is Brian Wilson’s biopic, “Love & Mercy.” I recommend it to anyone who loves a GREAT biopic that isn’t afraid to be raw, brutally honest, earnest, and real. You’ll laugh and you’ll cry; you’ll feel elation, as well as great empathy or compassion, followed by a joyful contentment to see how Brian Wilson survived against the odds.
Idk, when I found out the story was fictional the rape scene and the slap scene these events never happened .
@@iamcasihart The biopic was mostly false.
this will forever be my favorite musical movie.
I can't imagine anyone else playing Tina! Angela did a swell job! This movie along with color purple will go down in movie history!!!-----
One of my favorites is The Color Purple
Look at those guns on Bassett!
Gainzzzz
+Shon9tilR all kindzzz
You cant tell me that The Academy is not racist. How did this movie not win not a single award?! HOW. I'm personally offended.
God bless her she's been through hell and back... what a lovely woman, delightful spirit. And so strong and enduring.
Yep ,Pray for Us Womam
How did angela not win an Oscar for this!!!!
Agree
Tina has an unbreakable spirit
She survived and thrived despite it all!
Her HEALTH suffered tremendously...career got in The way of HEALTH
I have to say Angela B is one of the most versatile awesome actress she has played everybody mom wife a bunch of high profile movie and u never say damn her again becuz shes so damn good u truly forget! thats talent! :-)
The fact that Tina still smile telling how they met goes to show how in awe of him she was. ....even after all the turmoil her smile was still that young star struck girl that couldn't believe Ike was impressed with her
Well, his Schizophrenia got worse as time went on which probably enhanced his negative qualities to the point of him becoming a villain without even realising it.
The queen of rock and roll !
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Angela Bassett deserved an Oscar for this!
The performances by Laurence and Angela were incredible. This was a great movie as well.
I felt Angela captured the essence of Tina & what she went through. Tina had & has a very unique look & it would been impossible to find someone "perfect". In movie bio's, you have to stretch it a bit & be flexible. Look at how Judy Davis played Judy Garland - didn't look like her, but she captured the personality & energy.
"Forestkaat Prescott" true
Angela Basset played that role. So did Larry Fishburne. Tina, such an Amazing woman. Hats off to an icon.
Angela B deserved the Oscar that year. Lawrence's acting was so real, I still am unable to watch his parts to this day.
Tina Turner is a complete artist, the best .
Beautiful voice legs
Her energy is amazing
"Love & Peace" is Kanye West as talented?
Tina Turner is one of the best female artist in the world, I love her spirit... GOD BLESS!
Tina's so hot!!
and so is that lady playing Tina!!
The lady playing Tina was Angela basset
The couldn't have chosen a better actress to play the role of Tina Turner!! My all time favorite movie 🎬
Omg Tina teaching angela her moves 😍
Angela Bassett is and was SO FINE 😍
On God Angela and Lawrence actually made me think they were the actual ike and tina😍
They absolutely nailed it
Angela Bassett nailed it as Tina. She is a great actress.
Though the film took its story from Tina Turner's autobiography, I, Tina, it was determined to be only loosely based from the book, meaning certain events in the film were "fictionalized for dramatic purposes".[1] Examples of the fictionalized scenes include:
In the film, Tina's constant friend during the film, "Jackie" (played by Vanessa Bell Calloway), was put in the story. Tina Turner never had a friend named Jackie. The same friend is not only a member of The Ikettes but is also shown as the person who visits Tina in the hospital after her attempted suicide and later converts Tina to Nichiren Buddhism and chants "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo" in front of the "Gohonzon". The "friend" apparently was a combination of friends from Turner's past, including members of the Ikettes and friends from her and Ike's entourage.
When Anna Mae Bullock sees Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm perform, Ike is shown as the front man. While the real-life Ike Turner was a band leader and organizer, he often had other performers, particularly male singers, fronting the band. Turner had stage fright. The original vocalist behind "Rocket 88", sung by Lawrence Fishburne as Ike in the movie, was Jackie Brenston.
During Anna Mae's first performance with Ike and the Kings of Rhythm, Ike is shown playing guitar. But Tina and Ike stated Tina sung after being given a microphone by the band's drummer and singing while Ike was playing piano during an intermission, rather than a live performance as indicated in the film though she later did front the band the night she began singing with them.
A reenactment shows Tina recording her first song, which is called "Tina's Wish", on the film's soundtrack. However, it's actually a re-recording Tina did of an old Ike and Tina song, "Make Me Over", from the Ike and Tina album, Nutbush City Limits, released in 1973. Tina's first recording (as "Little Ann") was actually singing background on one of Ike's songs, "Box Top".
During the scene where Ike and Tina are scheduled to perform at the Apollo Theater in 1960, the bill has Martha and the Vandellas and Otis Redding as fellow headliners. In reality, Martha and the Vandellas hadn't formed yet, with several of them performing in another different vocal group called the Del-Phis, while Redding had yet to record his first single and was fronting several bands.
The film shows Tina giving birth to Ike's son who is named Craig but in reality, Craig Turner was Tina's child with another man, Raymond Hill. Ike and Tina did not have a child until 1960, when son Ronnie Turner was born and Ronnie would be their only child; Tina was pregnant with Ike's child in 1968 but allegedly had an abortion.
Like Vanessa Bell Calloway's character "Jackie", there was no "Fross", "Reggie" or "Spider" in Ike and Tina's private circle.
While Tina mentions that there were accounts of Ike being abusive to her, there was no incident where Ike pushed cake in Tina's face leading to a food fight in the diner. The reenactment is a dramatization of an incident Tina Turner herself accounted in her autobiography saying that while waiting for food, a waitress gave her cake. Though Tina said she hadn't ordered it, Ike told her to eat it.
In one scene, Tina calls her mother and tells her that she's heading over to her house in St. Louis to hide from Ike Turner. After Ike locates where Tina is, he berates her for trying to escape and makes it appear as if Ike had gotten word about what Tina was doing from her mother but in her memoirs, Tina Turner said that Ike knew where to seek her out.
When Ike and Tina are performing "Proud Mary", the timeline has it around 1968, with them opening for The Rolling Stones. Creedence Clearwater Revival's original version of "Proud Mary" was not released until January 1969, and Ike and Tina did not include the song in their act until 1970. Also, Ike and Tina opened for the Stones twice, in 1966 on their UK tour and in 1969 on their US tour.
The film alleges that Ike and Tina did not have a hit after "A Fool in Love" was released but, in truth, the duo had several hit singles between the release of "A Fool in Love" and "River Deep - Mountain High", including "It's Gonna Work Out Fine", "I Idolize You", "Tra La La" and "Poor Fool".
The film's most infamous scene showcases "Ike" committing what looks like an act of rape on "Tina" after beating her up in the studio. Both Turners denied the rape scene reenacted in the film but Tina writes in her memoirs that after Ike would physically assault her, he would ask for sex stating Ike "instilled fear" in her.
In one scene, "Tina" is shown in a drugged state where her Ikettes noticed that she had attempted suicide, with the timeline being given as 1974. In real life, the incident occurred in 1969 before a show in Los Angeles and occurred shortly after Tina learned one of her friends and a member of the Ikettes was pregnant with Ike Turner's child.
When Tina Turner performs at the Ritz, the film has the timeline at 1983 and the host announces her arrival as her "debut solo performance", but Tina had first performed at the theater in 1981. Also proven to be inaccurate was Ike Turner's visit to the theater where he failed at silencing Tina with his gun. In truth, Ike Turner was never at the Ritz. In fact, Ike Turner had not been seen in public for years following his and Tina's divorce in 1978 and had remained in Los Angeles.
Though the film depicts Tina Turner as having addressed the courtroom to retain her stage name, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 1996, she denies speaking up but said her lawyer had brought it up in court after Tina advised her lawyer to drop a potential financial support suit against Ike as their divorce court dragged on for a year.
The film states at the end that Private Dancer was Tina Turner's first solo album when it was actually her fifth solo album. Her previous four albums were Tina Turns the Country On!, Acid Queen, Rough, and Love Explosion. It also concluded that Ike Turner was still serving prison for drug possession; he had actually been released from jail after being granted parole in 1991.
it's from wikipedia
Thank you for piecing together all the bits and pieces clearly available on Wikipedia. Did you remember that they'd signed away their right to make a movie of their lives...
You're welcome learned that this bit like you the Internet 😒
skeaneable maybe they didnt have those peoples permission... to name them in the actual movie or they were dead by then so they changed their names?
I can’t believe I just sat here and read this whole novel
Danggggg you copied that whole article
Wow I didnt know tina was so involved with the Movie
wow, and wow! Tina is gorgeous and charming!
Angela Bassett & Tina Turner's ancestors must've crossed paths somehow because (forget the hair & makeup) facially they look like sisters in that shot (6:40). Also, THANK GOD this movie was made in 1993 & not 2013. I don't even want to imagine someone like Beyonce being "in talks" to forcibly play this icon. This role belonged to Ms. Bassett & anytime I watch it, I come out feeling like I just conquered something.
*****
No dear, both are beautiful; however, they look nothing alike. Actually, Mary J. Blige, in my opinion, has very similar facial features to Tina.
MOVIE IS TIMELESS YOU CAN TELL TINA HELP MAKE IT
angela & laurence's acting was the best of any biopic about musicians. i just re-watched the movie a few days ago and it still makes me laugh, cry and everything in between
Angela did tina proud :-)
it;s great to see all these black people working to create an amazing film. wish there was more like this
Originally, Whitney Houston (god bless her soul) was intended for the role of Tina, but she had to be on maternity since the birth of Bobbi.
That would have been cool too..
she's not a good actress-amazing voice though
burlhorse i agree... she was ok in the Bodyguard but I’m glad Angela played Tina.
@@valr1260 she Was Great in bodyguard
LEGEND Panther 1992 Jennings that’s your opinion. Mine is that she was ok.
Lawrence did and amazing job he deserves an Oscar
Angela and Laurence killed this movie. I will never forget it. Love Tina.
Now, why didn't she win an Oscar for that performance way back then?
This movie is real talking about abuse! Tina Turna is amazing!
So many messages in the movie. Persevere, find your core being, never stop...and there are people in your life for a reason. Coming in and going out. Their relationship was karmic as hell for sure. It is a testimony to spirit of a human... and both women deserve the accolades. Powerful!
Most definitely karmic!!!!
Angela is truly one of the greatest actresses of all times.
Man, Angela Bassett was robbed at the Academy Awards! She really should have won Best Actress. ☹️
She was so stunning! Tina Turner was right when she told Angela that she didn’t do any mimicking, she reached down deep and discovered her inner Tina and showed the world! Awesome Job! RIP Tina!
Thank you!!! Angela is the ONLY women who could have played Tina and she did one HELL of a job!
Angela should have got the Oscar for her amazing performance ❤
Rest in peace, Tina! You are missed. ❤
I don't care what anyone says for that hour and half or so , they were ike and tina.
Angela's just AN ICON!!!
Rest Well Queen Tina.
Thank You for everything Legend
I like the end where Tina says theres alot of things I can do but singing and dancing is one of them. Also when Angela and Tina are dressed in black, they look FAB!! : )
Ruth Carter also created all the costumes for the Black Panther. Mrs.Angela = Queen Mother :)
RIP Michael Peters :'(
AJ Muzik
I know they didnt win any but for me. They both deserved the oscar that year. Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne were so damn good
Tina and Angela are two different gorgeous🔥🔥
Angela & Laurence did the damn thing! They played the hell out of those roles 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 one of my favorite movies ever 💜
Laurence and Angela were robbed of oscars . Laurence is so talented he can act and he sang ikes parts and I think his voice is better. it's too bad ike was such a head case wife beater bc he is credited with the first ever rock n roll song and he didn't get the propers he would have gotten if he wasn't such a monster to his wife. let's be honest white people stole rock n roll from black people which is a mix of the Blues and gospel. white people had the money and Polish to package it to the masses .
Did you know Robin Givens and Halle Berry was up for the same role???....and actually Tina wanted Robin because she said Robin looked the most like her.
Tina turner was on board with her biopic. Selena's famaly was on board with her biopic. chilli and t boz were on board with the tlc biopic, and the aaliyah biopic.......
Xavier Musiq 😂😂😂😂
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RIP Tina Turner!!!! 💕💕💕
Lawrence fishburne scares the shit out me but he is such a great actor . angela is just beautiful and so talented .
I think this, Elvis and Rocketman might be the only three phenomenal musician biopics out there…I’m prepared to be proved wrong.
They’ll never get the credit they deserve for their performance. Iconic🖤
Angela and Lawrence deserve the red carpet along time ago
Angela Bassett is incredibly gorgeous and hasn't aged at all!
Angela deserves an Oscar for this performance
WHOA---look at 'em bulging biceps Angela's got! Tina never had arms like THAT! Don't know if Angela pumped her arms too hard, but it's distracting looking at those arms. Otherwise great job by Angela in the movie, I saw it several times.
shihlin1 I think they were trying to distract from Angela not having the legs. Angela said in interviews that she worked out for about 3 hours and then did about 10 of learning the routines.
You guys..Tina does have muscular arms. I recall a few clips on ytube of her on stage and I was shocked to see she had muscle definition. I recall her once saying that she does not work out or exercise outside of dancing on tour or rehearsing. I was like 😳
I saw this movie when I was eleven and read her bio when I was 13. I wish it had been more factual. I do believe that Angela Bassett should have won the Oscar for this
I love the both of them. And she did an amazing job in doing Tina Turner movie. 2 amazing beautiful woman 2020 and I have the movie and I got my grandkids loving her music and the movie too. I tell you when I'm gone they will always remember me in all that I love especially all the movies that I collected since I was a very young girl. I wish them many blessings
Seen this film when i was kid..its still vividly reminiscing to me as child..powerful and moving story
Angela Bassett was the perfect actress to play Tina, and she absolutely nailed it!!
I think the main problem with the film was the wigs! They really didn't get the wigs to really move like a Tina wig! But still an awesome movie!
I agree. The wigs were trash. The only negative.
Laurence Fishburne scared the living daylight out of me. Great performance and Angela Basset was amazing as well.
She should won Oscar she was pure class
Angela doens't sing or dance. What a great job she did! Bravo Angela!
Rest In Peace Miss Tina😢😢❤❤❤❤
Basset is so beautiful
I am a 63 yo white woman..Tina Turner has been my hero since the 80's..She has endured and loved..She has inspired me in many ways..Thank you to a friend I never met..Oh I will miss you♥️♥️
It would have been nice to have had this footage on a special edition DVD.
Laurence and Angela is the only Ike and Tina!! No one else could have played those roles with such precision!!
Always loved and adored Tina, but boy, Angela and Lawrence delivered!!!
Angela's legs and arms are dynamite. Fantastic actress. Love her ❤❤❤
Angela girl you know you lying when you said you don't have the legs!! Your body is a work of art!
I Want to know why no one is mad at mr.
fishburnes hair line?
Alexandrea1993 mi