I, Tina

Has the adaptation

Canonical title

I, Tina

People/Characters

Tina Turner; Ike Turner

Related movies

What's Love Got to Do with It (1993 | IMDb)

First words

Chapter One.
Nut Bush

It is a sun-dappled late-summer morning in Nut Bush, Tennessee, sometime in the early forties. A meandering breeze ruffles the poplars and pecan trees along State Highway 19, and the air is hea... (show all)vy with honeysuckle perfume. Fields of brown sorghum, soybeans, sweetcorn and blossoming cotton blanket the gently rolling country side. Strawberries abound, and peach trees thick with fruit. There is about the scene a feeling of deep, rural repose: the occasional buzz of a hornet, the half-hearted peck of a stray hen scratching amid the clumps of cow-itch begonia, perhaps the soft flip-and splash of a hooked perch in some nearby, fern-banked pond, or a supper-bound catfish in one of the creeks. And now, out of the backwoods, comes the unhurried clop of a family field-horse bearing five small, brown children down Forked Deer Road toward its oblique junction with the two-lane highway.

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)'We Don't Need Another Hero'
'One of the Living'

Tina's two songs from the soundtrack of the 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. 'Hero' is a perfect little pop song, given an appropriately measured reading that respects the delicate instrumental riffs without descending into goo.
'Living' is a sort of post-art-metal crunch opus.

Disambiguation notice

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