the opera game: the movie on morphy

http://theoperagamemovie.com/index.cfm?e=inner&itemcategory=73654

anybody heard about it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5120646/?ref_=nm_flmg_tk_1

movies based on chess never get far

........ ... and no, not heard of this

But loved the game (Paul Morphy) 

True Lofina, I believe they recently made one where Spiderman played the lead role and even that didn't help

That might be the worst movie trailer I have ever seen in my life. 

The Opera ain't over till the fat lady sings - or so I've heard ...

No progress on the movie ... Sort of like morphy's love life ...

Maybe they could have added espionage, or espawnage in English ..

There are actually some really good and well-received chess movies by the audience and critics alike. For example movies like Searching for Bobby Fischer and Pawn Sacrifice are really good movies in their own right, for chess lovers or movie fans alike. 

Its worth seeing.

"On the night of his untimely and mysterious death in post-Civil War New Orleans, world chess champion PAUL MORPHY’S {1837-1884} (Blaine Kern) exciting and tortured life is reviewed. Known as the greatest chess player of all time, Morphy was a multidimensional genius prodigy. When Paul was six he watched his father and uncle play a game of chess, then recreated the game from memory. Family friend, free-man-of-color JESSIE (Archie Sampier) narrates this story of family strife, sibling rivalry and internal turmoil of a mother trying to restrain an uncle who wants the boy on a platform, a brother who is close to dueling and a father set on keeping the genius- chess mind locked on a path of the family’s political aspirations."

Sounds kinda goofy.

Hyuk hyuk

I have to agree that the movie trailer is excruciatingly bad, complete with grotesque over-acting and a script showing the American South in the nineteenth century from the perspective of the concerns of a modern American, rather than as those living there and then would have experienced it.

This is why I generally don't watch movies based on competition because the competition supplies its own drama.  Hollywood can never recreate the drama of the actual event, no matter how hard it tries.  So, to compensate for their inability to recreate the exact moment of the competition, they surround the story with extraneous drama, present rumor as fact, and throw accuracy to the wind for the sake of tension and pace.  It makes for a good story, but only a story--not history.  Just from the trailer for this movie I wouldn't watch it, because when Hollywood gets the idea for a movie they throw reality out the door for the sake of the box office and I like what really happened--not what Hollywood would like to have happened. 

Apparently goofy was cheating the old fashioned way, using a book.   Hyuk hyuk.

The blowing the pieces off the board moment has became a cliche on chess movies!

but don't forget Pluto.

How did the dog, GET A DOG???

Yes.

Is much funnier, when it happens in Real Life.

And that's how you Krush the competition even after losing on time.   That incident serves as a model to all chess.com whining threads on losing on time.

Last time I played a game vs. my wife she preferred to throw all the captured pieces on the board. She has such a good sense for economy.