This isn’t really about movies, so I don’t think it belongs in Cafe Society.
Would you rather:
a) win an Oscar for portraying a living person
or
b) be that person?
It would completely depend on why I was famous enough to need portrayed in a movie. Because I cured cancer, became fabulously wealthy, and have a beautiful family? I’m all about being the real deal. But because I contracted some insanesly rare disease, was neglected by the health care system, and am now slowly rotting away in a longterm-care facility with 1/2 a brain? I’ll take the Oscar, please.
Charlize Theron or Aileen Wournos? Tough choice. Let me think about that one for a bit.
It really depends on the role/person. But let’s face it, they don’t make too many Oscar-winning movies about well-adjusted people who have spectacularly happy, fulfilling lives and then die comfortably in bed surrounded by loving family.
I’d even take Russell Crowe (no prize himself) over John Nash. Brilliant and crazy is overrated.