The Movies: Get On Up, Mr Turner If you were under any illusions that famous people aren't perfect, then cinema in 2014 has worked hard to right your beliefs. While both tried inordinately hard to highlight their subject's artistic greatness, Get On Up and Mr Turner were more than happy to show James Brown and J. M. W. Turner as a selfish wife-beater and sex-addled abuser respectively. This is really only to be expected given how the biopic has developed. Although you'd think a film highlighting a famous person's life would be pretty similar regardless of the era in which its produced, no matter how hard a director tries it will reflect the present times (or end up feeling antiquated, like last year's Mandela: A Long Walk To Freedom). And with culture keen to highlight celebrities as real people, much of the entertainment now comes from just how flawed they really were. In fact, the one biopic that jumps to mind that didn't follow this track was The Imitation Game, which played things a lot more conventionally, giving a more traditional movie (and attack-less take on Alan Turing).
