The funny thing about the whole event was how tight the security was. The big rule was NO CAMERA PHONES. If you had a camera phone, you would NOT BE ALLOWED IN THE THEATER. If you were caught with a camera phone, THEY WILL TAKE YOU DOWN. I guess you can take short videos with camera phones nowadays, but how good could the images be? This was simply a period drama, for pete's sake. It wasn't like Denzel and Forest were going to be dressed like Batman and Robin in the movie.
So how was the movie? It was pretty good. I've seen football movies, quiz show movies, cheerleading movies, but I must say this was the first debate movie I've ever seen. It takes place in the 1930's and tells the story of the debating team from Wiley College, an all-black university in Texas. The movie depicts how the team comes together and defeats all the other schools in the area, until the climatic showdown with the Harvard debate team.
Besides Denzel and Forest, this movie features a young actor named Denzel Whitaker, who oddly enough is not the love child of Denzel and Forest Whitaker.
At the end of the movie we had to fill out a two-page questionnaire on the movie. I couldn't find any flaws in the movie (other than not enough guns and explosions), and I really enjoyed it overall, so I gave it an "excellent" rating, and said, "yes, I would recommend this movie". So here's my recommendation - when The Great Debaters comes you, go see it.
By the way, there are absolutely no pictures available for this movie, so here's an entirely made up scene from the movie:
"Coffee is best with two lumps of sugar!"
"I disagree - coffee tastes better with only one lump!"
