A liberal who made the mistake of thinking he could work with the Kennedy's.
Posted on 01/06/2015 9:41:34 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Before I came to dislike the movie “Selma,” I was deeply moved by it. Twice it brought me to tears. A crane shot of Martin Luther King Jr. leading thousands of demonstrators over the Edmund Pettus Bridge was one such moment, and so was the vicious attack on John Lewis — bravely, steadfastly walking into the beating he knew was coming. Today, Lewis is a member of Congress. Forever, he’ll be an American hero.
Too bad, though, that the movie had to go Hollywood on Lyndon Baines Johnson, who, as if from the grave, has bellowed his protest. In its need for some dramatic tension, “Selma” asserts that King had to persuade and pressure a recalcitrant Johnson to introduce the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The movie also depicts Johnson authorizing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to smear King and — as King himself suspected — try to drive him to suicide. It is a profoundly ugly moment.
But a bevy of historians say it never happened. It was Robert F. Kennedy, the former attorney general, who authorized the FBI’s bugging of King’s hotel rooms. Yet, for understandable reasons, Kennedy appears nowhere in the film. By 1965, he was no longer the AG and, anyway, he remains a liberal icon. But LBJ — Southern, obscene and, especially when compared to the lithe Kennedy, gross of speech and physique — was made the heavy. He should get a posthumous SAG card. . . .
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You can’t possibly ever depict Johnson as evil enough. The first truly demonic American president.
This movie is getting pushed heavily on Salem radio.
Commercials for it all the time.
I can’t buy a movie about King that has hip hop music as a backdrop.
Seems ludicrous.
Kind of a musical rejection of everything he stood for.
Complaints about historical accuracy in dramas miss the point. That has never been the goal. It’s not what drama is for.
A liberal who made the mistake of thinking he could work with the Kennedy's.
The movie celebrates the bringing of the Third World assault on the West to the United States. Gandhi opened against England with his bestial appreciation that the West was spiritually exhausted by two world wars, only then did he strike. King’s masters brought the war to our shores. After fifty years of unremitting attacks We are losing. Western Man is without strength to effectually resist the relentless psychological and physical assaults.
The stakes are pretty high for “Selma,” a historical biopic about the landmark 1965 civil rights march that focuses on the relationship between civil rights leader Martin Luther King and President Lyndon Johnson. Even before it hit screens, the critically-acclaimed film was considered an Oscar-contender There is also “Selma’s” director, Ava DuVernay, who could become the first black female nominated for a Best Director Oscar (Oprah Winfrey is a producer).
In the wake of the Democrat/media-fabricated race hoaxes surrounding Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, not to mention the Year of the Woman hype being pushed by the media to lift Hillary Clinton into the Oval Office, the political and emotional investment pre-built into the Narrative around “Selma’s” road to Oscar is obvious.
A speed bump along this road, however, is a little thing called historical accuracy.
You do know what this movie is about, right?
Some how I do not feel a need to prop up LBJ’s reputation.
Drudge picked up on the fascinating fact that this is the second year in a row the prestigious Producers Guild Awards snubbed producer Oprah Winfrey and her product: a historical-based race drama. Last year, it was the historically-inaccurate “The Butler.” This year it is the historically-inaccurate “Selma.”Every year the PGA nominates the producers of 10 films for its prestigious Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures. Because of the voting pool involved, the PGAs are usually a very good indicator of the films that will go on to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
THE KING'S SPEECH did that and it's a wonderful movie. THE GREAT GATSBY should've tried to accurately portray the era; instead it was ruined with JayZ music.
The last thing we need now with the climate in the US is a movie that inaccurately vilifies white people.
It seems as though this is par for the course today. The 2013 version of The Great Gatsby, a story set in 1922 featured hip hop and disco dancing. Oh, well, although it's anachronistic, I suppose we have to feature contemporary pop music in movies set in historic times to appeal to today's young people, who have no sense of history.
Gee, anyone get the feeling that racial tensions in this country are being deliberately stoked? These slavery/civil rights movies seem to be coming out in droves every single year since The One unfortunately became POTUS. Probably the most ridiculous was “12 years a slave” which seemed to me to be nothing more than a black snuff film. The whole freakin’ movie is blacks getting whipped, strung up, beat up, punched, kicked, slapped, tortured, lynched on and on and on and on. And they promoted it “as being the true story” it “was taken verbatim for the book” without realizing that a lot of stuff in that book was BS, was used as propaganda for the anti-slave movement.Yes no doubt slaves were abused like that, but not on the scale that movie portrayed. Slaves were property and owners would no more abuse them than they would abuse a horse which means they rarely did. I mean what was the point? It was all about money, you abuse a slave it cost money, if they are injured they can’t work or they run away, so it’s utter nonsense that they were abused on the scale that movie showed. But leave it to the left to re-write history that the evil white man abused blacks 24 hours a day 7 days a week. This is the freakin’ left deliberately stoking racial tensions today. Why? Who knows, maybe they are upset Obama didn’t turn out to be the Messiah they hoped and want to blame it all his failures on the white man.
“The last thing we need now with the climate in the US is a movie that inaccurately vilifies white people.”
Just a little more of that hopey-changey “fundamental transformation”.
It's about one of the steps that led us to, today, the brink of open race-war.
Where did you get all those ‘rules’? Shakespeare’s History plays certainly don’t follow them. Neither does ‘The Three Musketeers’. Or Amadeus. ‘The Scarlet Letter’ is a great novel but is a highly inaccurate portrait of the Puritans. As for ‘The Great Gatsby’ with Jay Z music I humbly direct you to the 1944 film ‘Meet Me in St Louis’, set in 1904 but features Judy Garland singing The Trolley Song...a 1940s style big band number.
Indeed.
Many argue that Obammie is the worst president ever.
While I give the Kenyan credit for skyrocketing high into 2nd place (and in fact he may well take that # 1 spot), he is still not as bad as LBJ.
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