I'm noticing a trend here-- can't quite put my finger on it.
I'm noticing a trend here-- can't quite put my finger on it.
Beards.
(But which two in the second set are dating each other?)
I want you to know that that film is propaganda. The blacks in this country have their own wonderful achievements in our vast society but one of them was not the real wild west.
It's the hats, Bruce. No white hats are being worn in the remake.
Facial hair!
Tired of Hollywood’s PC nonsense... I’m not going.
Maybe they ought to call it “The Fabulous Seven,” and really go whole hog.
“Brokeback Seven”
Or however you would reword “La Cage aux Folles.”
Most of the Blacks in the West were Union occupiers after the war. John Wesley Hardin killed a Black man when he was still a kid. This was pretty much a capital offense no matter who was at fault.
Several Black troops were sent to capture him. He killed them all and became an outlaw.
I used to work Dodge City, KS. I used to study the history and look at the photos the city had posted. I never saw a Black cowboy in any of them. I am not going to say they did not exist because they did but their numbers have been vastly inflated by various movies, TV shows etc. in the last 50 years.
When I lived in Western, KS the whole state had a very low percentage of Blacks. There were more in the large cities but in the small ones especially in Western parts of the state, their numbers could usually be counted on the fingers of one hand. A Black man robbed a store in Garden City and the cops only had to check on around 4 people to find who did it.
For some reason Dodge City had more Blacks but most of the cities under say 5000 population might not have a single one.
Now I used to like Smallville which was set in Kansas. I did think it odd that maybe 70% of all Dr.s, scientists, judges, and anyone else in positions of authority were Black or maybe Black and female.
They overdid it to the point of it being silly. I liked the first few years of it but finally could no longer watch it.
I noticed in the new show “Super girl” that Jimmy Olsen is Black. Now that is a nice common Black name, Olsen. In a review I noticed that they show her as being in love with Jimmy so I decided not to watch. I suppose most people will watch it just to see an interracial romance. That is the big thing now.
And I thought I didn’t want to see this movie before.
These movie producers should realize that the last thing people want is SJW BS infecting their movies. You would think the bombing of the latest Ghostbusters movie would have proved that.
A PC Magnificent Seven is about a painful way to spend a couple of hours that I can imagine.
However, I noticed that the Brynner/McQueen original is playing this week on my cable system. That could be a very pleasant way to spend a couple of hours.
The "seven" are a disparate band of Old West has-beens, wanna be's and I-still-got-its. They each have their own skills they bring to the action. Lots of shooting and violence, if that bothers some.
Best movie I've seen this year.
Another gun flick.
LOL!
I went by a cineplex tonight. I haven’t caught a flick since before summer. Just to see what was playing. I asked the guy behind the counter what’s a good movie. He suggested The Magnificent Seven. I told him I was too much a fan of the original, that I don’t need any remake and especially not any PC crap. I’m going to watch Stranger Things for the first time instead.
Does it have Trini Lopez as “Jiminez”?
Oops, wrong movie, that was “The Dirty Dozen”.
Sorry, the original Magnificent was the best. I won’t even bother to see the new one.
Slow night?
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Black-Outlaws-Cowboys-And-Lawmen-Of-The-Old-West
I like Denzel, I like this story. My go see it.
The badit leader Calvera was presumably (99.9% certainly) supposed to be a Mexican. And Chico was likewise strongly implied to be Mexican.
How in heck are those "non-Caucasian" rôles!? Are Mexicans (Hispanics) now "non-Caucasian!?" And if not Caucasoid - then to which of the other major races (Negroid, Mongoloid, Australoid) do they allegedly belong?
Regards,
At least they’re all male; there’s that. I’m actually astonished they didn’t go all PC and throw a girl into the cast.
Disney is doing the same thing to Madeline L’Engle’s classic A Wrinkle In Time (one of my all time favorite YA novels). It’s an “adaptation” (which means to me that they’re going to change everything L’Engle wrote it for, particularly her marvelous send-up of the leftist mentality). Black director, mostly black cast, the Murry’s are “mixed race” and red-haired Calvin will be played by a black....
Basically, what this is saying, and what the new “Magnificent” is saying, is that the originals got it wrong, they were all about evil white racism.... How many other classics have been racially mangled for the sake of PC? Annie? The Whiz? What others?
Well, already the Magnificent “remake” is getting bad review... I hope it and Wrinkle bomb spectacularly. I don’t have anything against black actors, movies, novels, etc. Just write your own... stop trying to “improve” what is already excellent because it’s not black enough for you.