People either support its view that Moses did more harm than good to New York City, or they rebel against it. Caro’s screed is part of the Robert Moses story now. The book defined Moses in the public consciousness it both sullied and mythologized him, during his lifetime. Will the man’s career - not to mention the history of 20th century New York - acceptably fit into a single movie?Īnd this presumably wouldn’t be a normal bio pic, because ‘The Power Broker’ isn’t a normal bio. The Caro book also charts about seven decades or so. For comparison sake, The Lord of the Rings is 1,216 pages, and director Peter Jackson stretched that over three long, epic films. ‘The Power Broker’ is over 1,100 pages long. Our 100th episode is devoted to Moses’ influence on the city.īut a movie? I’m cautiously optimistic to mildly apprehensive, as anybody should be when a classic book is adapted for the screen. It’s an HBO film.) The ‘master builder’ is a regular foil in our podcasts. Several people have emailed us for our reaction to Moses’s big-screen debut. You’ve probably heard by now that Oliver Stone is preparing to make a film version of Robert Caro’s ‘The Power Broker’, the iconic biography of New York’s influential city planner Robert Moses.
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