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01-29-2010, 09:38 AM
| | | | GeneralElectric and the Porter Family: The Movie
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Many of us by now are familiar with the wonderful thread started by the now legendary GeneralElectric. I discovered it about an hour after Andre's first post, and have been following it ever since. It gets better by the day. A fantastic, heartwarming story, and proof as to why bass players are at the highest level of human existence.
I will be disappointed if this story does not end up being chronicled in a book and a film. Time to start thinking about which of today's actors would best play the parts of G.E., Butch, Andre, Butch's daughter, and others involved in this story.
Please post your casting ideas now!
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01-29-2010, 09:42 AM
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Im sure Andrew will appriciate this!
James Falco for Andrew (GeneralElectric) 
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01-29-2010, 09:52 AM
| | | | Great one!
how about:
Butch - Samuel L. Jackson
Andre - Denzel Washington |
01-29-2010, 09:53 AM
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01-29-2010, 10:21 AM
| | | | We need a good movie title also... |
01-29-2010, 10:26 AM
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Sounds good to me!
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01-29-2010, 10:27 AM
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01-29-2010, 10:34 AM
| | | | Great stuff!
Butch's daughter - Zoe Saldana |
01-29-2010, 10:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Tifton,Georgia | | | too bad 'oh brother where art thou?' is already taken :P
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01-29-2010, 10:46 AM
| | | | Ok, how about this..
Movie Title - "Talk Bass"
Starring:
James Falco - GE
Samuel L Jackson - Butch
Denzel Washington - Andre
Will Smith - the youngest brother
Zoe Saldana - Butch's daughter
We get some bit players from the Sopranos to work in the restaurant.
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02-02-2010, 03:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Your location can be this long | | | This sounds very interesting.... let's have Peter Jackson direct!
If James Cameron does it, it'll be 17 years before it's completed....
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02-02-2010, 03:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Francisco | | | No, get Michel Gondry to do it. |
02-02-2010, 07:09 PM
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02-04-2010, 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by DizzyExiled Dane Cook as the guy getting beat up in the background | 
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02-04-2010, 07:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Colorado Springs, CO | | | Natalie Portman could play the love interest. Maybe she could resprise her Gangsta rap from SNL.
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02-09-2010, 02:21 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | You guys kid but I bet some college kids could write and produce it as a drama class project! 
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02-20-2010, 09:19 AM
| | | This is serious now. Someone should sit down with Butch and help him write his story as an autobiographical novel. Hook him up with an agent (hopefully one who is also a bass player in this community, not some shyster). Get it published, then sell the idea to Hollywood. Butch gets his cut all the way through the process, maybe TB can negotiate a cut too to help sustain this fine online resource. Come on, I know we got guys out there with the right connections. Now that would be even more of a hook up than we have seen so far - Butch and his family could be set up pretty well if things click. Let's keep the momentum going...
In case you haven't seen the latest, here are the links to news article and video of Butch... http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...to_miracl.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfN-fyjkwg |
02-20-2010, 10:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Your location can be this long | | Cool! Hadn't seen the YouTube vid!
(noticed practically all the commenters were TB'ers  )
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