“For Fred, kindness itself was a practice,” said journalist Tom Junod, who is depicted in the movie. “It was something that you work at. It took discipline.” Junod even learned recently that Rogers took lessons from their conversations. 905wesa
, suggest that some see him as more meme than icon. But the coarser our civic discourse and popular culture get, the more our attitude toward Fred Rogers leans hagiographic, casting him as a patron saint of kindness. As people like to say, “We need him more than ever.”
While “Beautiful Day” provides snatches of Rogers’ own story – anecdotes about his childhood in Latrobe, and his early days in television – it’s not really the biopic audiences might expect. Rather, like Junod’s acclaimed article, the film, scripted by Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue, depicts Rogers through his effect on others.
The film, in other words, isn't for kids. It's framed instead to tell us what the world’s most renowned children’s-TV host can teach adults. A key reveal of both Junod’s 1998 article and Heller’s film is that Rogers was essentially the same off-camera as on-. But just because “Mr. Rogers” wasn’t an act doesn’t mean it wasn’t also a carefully crafted persona.
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