Posted on 01/02/2015 10:30:53 AM PST by illiac
Historians take issue with director Ava DuVernay focus on former president Lyndon B. Johnson
Days away from the wide release of “Selma,” a controversy around the film is gaining steam as historians take issue with its depiction of president Lyndon B. Johnson clashing with Martin Luther King, Jr. over voting rights.
In a lengthy New York Times story about historians taking issue with the movie, Diane McWhorter, the author of “Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution,”argued Thursday that the movie is not truthful in depicting LBJ (played by Tom Wilkinson) fighting King on staging protests in Selma.
“Everybody has to take license in movies like this, and it can be hard for nit-pickers like me to suspend nit-picking,” she told The Times. “But with the portrayal of L.B.J., I kept thinking, ‘Not only is this not true, it’s the opposite of the truth.’ ”
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Hollywood? Changing history? I don’t buy it.
Oprah needs to manufacture controversy about her movies, mainly because the public has been saturated with slave movies. If all else fails, she can revisit that purse shop in Switzerland and pretend to have been insulted by a sales clerk, thus producing “International Racism Event Part Deux”
in her mind.
Will the movie contain LBJ’s quote about blacks and voting Dem for the next 200 years?
I’m suspecting not.
Will they ever run out of these black victim hood dramas
Poor kids today believe so much of this
It’s virtually impossible to make a historical drama these days without various factions crying foul.
LBJ usually voted with the Dixiecrats, did he not, as did JFK and many another Democrat? They revised their own histories to become "Civil Rights" icons when they suddenly noticed that northern Negroes could keep them in power forever.
Oprah Winfrey wouldn’t sign the petition against North Korea.
She let the tyrants there silence her.
Think about that when you’re reading/watching this controversy.
Established historic fact should not be tampered with in movies based on actual history. The parts that are dramatized should responsibly be a good interpretation of how they would've happened.
British historic dramas are pretty good at that (ex: The King's Speech).
The Ferguson crazies and their enablers are creating a world view for themselves that all whites in positions of authority are the enemy. If this movie re-enforces that stereotype, it's not only bad history, it's dangerous.
JMHO
I thought that had already been released. I’ve seen the ads for it for weeks now.
No. they are useful for teaching a race that they are helpless without their masters doing things for them.
Poor kids today believe so much of this.
Which is precisely the point. Slaves need regular conditioning. Otherwise they might begin to think for themselves. Can't have that, now!
Ever heard of Shakespeare? He wrote History plays that were about as accurate as a soap opera.
One would expect extensive hoopla for the greatest cinematic event to have ever hit the screens (or that ever will).
In my very best Princess Bride voice ... Inconceivable!
Was this scene in the movie?
“I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years”
-LBJ
All this reminds me of that movie where the guy wakes up every morning and totally repeats the previous day, over and over.
Seems every generation of blacks wants to repeat the civil rights days to. Assign themselves as a martyr, or the next MLK.
Its a campaign looking for “justice” where no INjustice exists.
It’s the issue that never ends.
The more they carry on, the less of a f#€k I give.
LBJ could not have done more damage to Blacks in America if he had been a KKK Grand Wizard. Will Blacks EVER get that?
They just keep coming, one after another. I'm sick to death of them.
I guarantee you this one will win awards, just like the others...the fawning will never stop.
What was a good film about slavery or the mid 20th century civil rights movement? Is making a film on these topics de facto pandering and fawning?
They must be worried. AARP sent my wife free tickets. I hate being a member but it saves me on my cell phone bill.
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