Why make this movie.

I want to make a documentary about the USS Randolph because I believe it is vitally important to tell the story of these veterans that served aboard the ship. Although I did not join the Navy, my dad and grandfather both did, so it is something that I grew up around. Often, I think we know the broad strokes of history, but never what the event was like for the people that lived it. In this film, I believe I have the unique ability to tell some of those stories and provide an insider’s look at some of the events of U.S. history from 1944 to 1975.

I think a good movie has a perspective and it communicates that idea to its audience. I think a great movie does that and is also unique. This uniqueness does not mean that the idea behind the movie whole new, only that there is something about the movie that is fresh. Many classic movies still have this freshness even after other movies have been derided from the original material. I’ve seen hundreds, if not thousands of takes on The Tramp, but Chaplin is just relevant today as it was when he was making the movies because the themes are so universal. The same can’t be said for some of his contemporaries. This is not to say that borrowing from another film prevents a work from being great, Martin Scorcese and Woody Allen have been leaving their mark on borrowed stories for the past almost fifty years.