’42 – The true story of an American legend, curiosities about the film drawn with both hands from a fact that really happened and was known in the USA
’42 – The true story of an American legend is a 2013 biopic directed by Olivier Megaton with Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman, Alan Tudyk, Kelley Jakle and other well-known US actors.
Jackie Robinson who is a Negro League baseball player. These are the dark years in which being black in the United States meant being discriminated against.
Branch Rickey is instead a manager of the Major League team and thinks of making a counter-current gesture that will give prominence to his team, however creating problems for him. Rickey thus decides to recruit Robinson as first modern African American Major League player.
This is something completely new and against everything that has been so far with the player and his family who have suffered many over the years discrimination.
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’42 – The true story of an American legend: for him it was the role
Let’s see some curiosities about the film. First of all, the story is true and a background on the protagonist tells that before Harrison Ford other actors were thought for the role of the manager, including Robert Redford.
It was shot in various states, in Chattanooga in Tennessee, in Macon in Georgia and Birmingham in Alabama as well as many other films that tell stories related to racial discrimination in the US.
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Chadwick Boseman, the protagonist, trained for five months before playing that role with professional baseball coaches. Robinson’s widow, after seeing the actor at work, declared that “it was like seeing her husband again.”
