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* BoxOfficeBomb — Budget, $17 million. Box office, $186,354. Critics joke that it turned out a bigger disaster than Creator/RolandEmmerich's own ouvre of {{Disaster Movie}}s, specially as the LGBT community condemned how it played fast and loose with the real life events and made the key real life players, some of them people of color, become {{Supporting Protagonist}}s to a fictional white male character. And any prospects of recouping the low budget were lost by a very limited release in 129 theaters.
* CreatorsOddball: While Creator/RolandEmmerich was making his other example of the trope, ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'', someone asked him about a making a movie on Stonewall, and so after he returned to his usual destruction fests in ''Film/WhiteHouseDown'', Emmerich went for another historical drama (which he added that fit his one condition for a personal movie, a gay theme).
* CreatorsOddball: While Creator/RolandEmmerich was making his other example of the trope, ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'', someone asked him about a making a movie on Stonewall, and so after he returned to his usual destruction fests in ''Film/WhiteHouseDown'', Emmerich went for another historical drama (which he added that fit his one condition for a personal movie, a gay theme).
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* BoxOfficeBomb — BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $17 million. Box office, $186,354. Critics joke that it turned out a bigger disaster than Creator/RolandEmmerich's own ouvre of {{Disaster Movie}}s, specially as the LGBT community condemned how it played fast and loose with the real life events and made the key real life players, some of them people of color, become {{Supporting Protagonist}}s to a fictional white male character. And any prospects of recouping the low budget were lost by a very limited release in 129 theaters.
* CreatorsOddball: While Creator/RolandEmmerich was making his other example of the trope,''Film/{{Anonymous}}'', ''Film/{{Anonymous|2011}}'', someone asked him about a making a movie on Stonewall, and so after he returned to his usual destruction fests in ''Film/WhiteHouseDown'', Emmerich went for another historical drama (which he added that fit his one condition for a personal movie, a gay theme).
* CreatorsOddball: While Creator/RolandEmmerich was making his other example of the trope,
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* InspirationForTheWork: When Emmerich did charity work for the Gay and Lesbian Center in Los Angeles, seeing countryside migrants who move to the big city only to find themselves in unfavorable conditions of homelessness, drug abuse and prostitution, he decided to make a movie about one of said people finding a surrogate family, and combined it with the historical events of the 1969 riots.
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* InspirationForTheWork: When Emmerich did charity work for the Gay and Lesbian Center in Los Angeles, seeing countryside migrants who move to the big city only to find themselves in unfavorable conditions of homelessness, drug abuse and prostitution, he decided to make a movie about one of said people finding a surrogate family, and combined it with the historical events of the 1969 riots.riots.
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* DearNegativeReader: When the movie failed, Emmerich blamed the failure because of "one voice on the internet who saw a trailer and said, this is whitewashing Stonewall. Stonewall was a white event, let’s be honest. But nobody wanted to hear that any more."
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* DearNegativeReader: When the movie failed, Emmerich blamed the failure because of "one voice on the internet who saw a trailer and said, this is whitewashing Stonewall. Stonewall was a white event, let’s be honest. But nobody wanted to hear that any more."" This is despite the fact that there were people in many different colors in the actual events.
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* DearNegativeReader: When the movie failed, Emmerich blamed the failure because of "one voice on the internet who saw a trailer and said, this is whitewashing Stonewall. Stonewall was a white event, let’s be honest. But nobody wanted to hear that any more."
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* CreatorsOddball: While Creator/RolandEmmerich was making his other example of the trope, ''Film/Anonymous2011'', ''Film/{{Anonymous}}'', someone asked him about a making a movie on Stonewall, and so after he returned to his usual destruction fests in ''Film/WhiteHouseDown'', Emmerich went for another historical drama (which he added that fit his one condition for a personal movie, a gay theme).
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* BoxOfficeBomb — Budget, $17 million. Box office, $186,354. Critics joke that it turned out a bigger disaster than Creator/RolandEmmerich's own ouvre of {{Disaster Movie}}s, specially as the LGBT community condemned how it played fast and loose with the real life events and made the key real life players, some of them people of color, become {{Supporting Protagonist}}s to a fictional white male character. And any prospects of recouping the low budget were lost by a very limited release in 129 theaters.
* CreatorsOddball: While Creator/RolandEmmerich was making his other example of the trope, ''Film/Anonymous2011'', someone asked him about a making a movie on Stonewall, and so after he returned to his usual destruction fests in ''Film/WhiteHouseDown'', Emmerich went for another historical drama (which he added that fit his one condition for a personal movie, a gay theme).
* InspirationForTheWork: When Emmerich did charity work for the Gay and Lesbian Center in Los Angeles, seeing countryside migrants who move to the big city only to find themselves in unfavorable conditions of homelessness, drug abuse and prostitution, he decided to make a movie about one of said people finding a surrogate family, and combined it with the historical events of the 1969 riots.
* CreatorsOddball: While Creator/RolandEmmerich was making his other example of the trope, ''Film/Anonymous2011'', someone asked him about a making a movie on Stonewall, and so after he returned to his usual destruction fests in ''Film/WhiteHouseDown'', Emmerich went for another historical drama (which he added that fit his one condition for a personal movie, a gay theme).
* InspirationForTheWork: When Emmerich did charity work for the Gay and Lesbian Center in Los Angeles, seeing countryside migrants who move to the big city only to find themselves in unfavorable conditions of homelessness, drug abuse and prostitution, he decided to make a movie about one of said people finding a surrogate family, and combined it with the historical events of the 1969 riots.
