RE:GG Shine veracity

["I.Menguc TANRISEVEN" <ibtanri@eniac.ac.siue.edu>]

There was a cloumn  about the movie "Shine" 2 weeks ago on USA Today
newspaper and some quotes of David Helfgott's ideas about the movie. As 
far as i remember , the director of the movie let him watch it before it 
was released and David Helfgott said to him that "this is the best movie 
that i have seen since Ben Hur"..The director says that, Helfgott loughed 
and cried a lot while watching the movie..
I am not sure the exact date of the paper, but these are some stuff that 
i remember from it....


  I. Menguc TANRISEVEN
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On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Bruce Petherick wrote:

> At 21:19 27/12/96 -0500, KImmoor@aol.com wrote:
> >   I was able to finally see Shine yesterday, and I have to say that it was
> >indeed an excellent movie. I do have one question for the true Helfgott fans
> >out there (Bruce, as the emergency musicologist, perhaps you would know?); at
> >the end of the film I could swear that a very quick disclaimer flashes on
> >that says (I paraphrase, but the intent is the same) "Although the characters
> >of David and Gillian Helfgott are real, the events portrayed in this film are
> >fiction." It got me wondering, other than the basic points of a) his uncanny
> >childhood musical accomplishment, b) his late adolescent nervous breakdown,
> >and c) his adulthood restaurant performances and marriage to Gillian, how
> >much of the storyline of Shine is based on actual history? Were his sisters
> >consulted for the scenes of childhood, were Royal College staff contacted for
> >input on the college scenes? Has David recovered to the point where he could
> >provide cogent autobiographical information? I know that Gillian's biography
> >of David is set to be released as a tie-in to the film, but other than that,
> >where did the story of Shine come from?
> 
> Hi,
>  As far as I know, the biography came first (ie the book concept. I am never
> too sure if it was published before the film was released or not).  A lot of
> the "bad" publicity regarding the film was from family members who said that
> the file treated <insert relevant member here, usually his father> badly and
> she/he wasn't that bad.  I have had some personal correspondence with
> someone who knows his first wife, and she is quite upset about the film,
> although she publicly states that the film is "fiction".  David has
> recovered, if it is at all possible, and is doing a lot of recording and
> performing, _but_ I have not see anything directly from him in the media.
> One must wonder what he thinks about it all.
>         As to who was consulted etc, I am not sure - probably out of my
> musicologist league :->
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