iolo (03-14-2014)
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Sure did. Read the book too. The movie portrayed the book rather badly. The book is an outstanding piece of historical fiction and brilliantly portray the depravity and brutality of "that peculiar institution" while simultaneously demonstrating the degenerative affect that slavery had on southern society and culture.
If I remember correctly Ken Nortin was the epninimous star of the film? Unfortunately I had read the book prior to seeing the movie and was not at all impressed with the movie, as is often the case when you read the book first. Though in this case I think the movie sucked on it's own merits, or lack there of. I wouldn't recomend the movie...the book on the other hand is excellent.
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iolo (03-14-2014)
Put blame where it belongs
ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.
I haven't read the book yet, I will now though. It's like The Grapes of Wrath: the book makes the movie look embarrassingly simple minded. It's one of the deepest reads I've had. Mandingo the movie gives us a very earthy visual of the times and sets up the fear that slaves lived under.
That whole business of the lesser race however really sisn;t take hold until the 1850s when the split really began to come on: it was propoganda meant to whip up the ignorant just like it's used today with patriotism etc. Most southern whites however didn't care about blacks one way or the other, they had no slaves: a lot of them had no land of their own anyway.
Very early on in this country whites; endentures adn prisoners wlorked and ate side by side. Their kids played together as well, so the whole racist thing was first all but concocted to beat the war drums, and then the radical Republican carpetbaggers lit the fuse to the bomb that we live with today and was impotantly recorded during the Civil Rights era.
Thomas Jefferson (to Richard Price) January 8. 1789 "...wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government..."
USFREEDOM911 (03-15-2014)
I want to know why these people felt compelled to make a movie about 19th Century slavery. Perhaps it's an invitation to today's democrats to connect with their slave owner political ancestors.
christiefan915 (03-14-2014), maineman (03-14-2014)
christiefan915 (03-14-2014), jet57 (03-14-2014), maineman (03-14-2014)
The real question a liberal has to ask herself is, why was this movie made? Can you tell me that, Dearthla?
it just embarrasses all those guys like the duck dynasty douchebag who seemed to think that slavery and Jim Crow were a GREAT way for black folks to live!
C
It was made for the same reason most movies are made, a person has an idea, this one from a book, they like the message, and think it will make a good movie and so they get it produced and shown in theaters and hopefully the public will like the movie, the message will be distributed and the people making the movie might make a profit and be recognized for their movie and it's message.
Thomas Jefferson (to Richard Price) January 8. 1789 "...wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government..."
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