If they made a Carpenters biopic for the big screen, what period(s) would they focus on or what would they tell?

Submitted by Luke_Skywalker_1977 t3_z66rar in movies

*Note would focus on both POVs of Richard and Karen and not just one or the other

Periods:

  1. Offering, Close to You, Carpenters (1969-1971)

  2. A Song for You, Now and Then, Horizon (1972-1975)

  3. A Kind of Hush, Passage, Christmas album (1976-1978)

  4. Made in America, A Voice of the Heart (1980-82)

I’m aware there is television type of biopic from like 1989 I think called The Karen Carpenter Story. It definitely covers a bunch of their life as a one hour summary. However the story felt too controlled and You don’t get a chance to know how they made their music, just that they made music. Also random but the guy they casted for the brother sounds and looks nothing like him.

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So_Do_You_Like_Stuff t1_ixzo1io wrote

Probably late 60s through mid 70s. That’s when they were most popular. Then I supposed you’d have to touch upon Karen’s battle with anorexia up until her death.

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HopsAndBrains t1_ixzsm2s wrote

How about a John Carpenter biopic? That I can get behind! So much smoking

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jcd1974 t1_iy0ahzt wrote

It's a tragedy.

Karen Carpenter had a near perfect voice. Her songs are gorgeous, yet she never found the love or happiness she deserved and starved herself to death at the young age of 32.

Bizarrely her death became comic fodder and in death she became a joke. The same happened to Elvis Presley but at least his behavior in the years preceding his death made himself into a caricature. Karen Carpenter did nothing to warrant the ridicule that followed her death.

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Ebolatastic t1_iy0qhzd wrote

Replying to HopsAndBrains (#711,677)

Just make it about how the thing alienated him towards making films. You could start the film with an old carpenter being interviewed about how it's one of horrors greatest masterpieces and then flashback to a story about studio meddling, critics shitting on it, poor box office numbers, and so on.

Get Sorkin to write it.

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cupofteaonme t1_iy3brdg wrote

The best Carpenters movie has already been made and it's called Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, one of the greatest films of all time (not hyperbole).

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