Posted on 09/06/2008 7:12:16 PM PDT by topher
I am not sure why Spike Lee is making a movie with such a Christian title.
But it probably has much more in common with the movie The Eagle Has Landed than any sort of Christian movie...
It is an R for REJECT movie -- an R-rated film. It sounds like a Christian movie with its title. But there is too much ADULT CONTENT to be PG or G or PG-13 and not much hope for this to be any sort of movie that Christians will want to go to (or anyone).
Of course, a very DIZZY studios is backing this film (Disney).
This comes at a time that there is a war of words between Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood.
Sounds like more HOLLYWOOD CR@P and another reason to avoid movies like a plague...
The movie Henry Poole is Here did have a lot of interesting stuff that Christians might like...
I don't think one should expect that from Spike Lee.
Maybe it is film that OBAMA might praise for being BLACK enough...
The movie sounds like it might appeal to Christians, i.e., miracle and St Anna but is an R rated film...
Miracle of Sant’Anna: Rewriting history?
In 1944, stormtroopers poured into Sant’Anna di Stazzema, killing everyone in sight. A Spike Lee film will document the atrocity – but some survivors think he is rewriting history
By Peter Popham
Friday, 9 November 2007
When six Nazi SS officers were sentenced to life in 2005 for the massacre of Sant’Anna di Stazzema, it was the first moment of catharsis the village had enjoyed since the day in August 1944 when four columns of Nazi stormtroopers poured down from the hills and slaughtered everyone in sight, including dozens of women and children.
But this week even that small dose of justice – the SS men were tried in absentia – was threatened when Italy’s senior prosecutor argued in its highest court, the Court of Cassation, that the trials were unfair and the sentences should be quashed.
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Lee is basing his film on a novel, The Miracle of Sant’Anna, by James MacBride, a black veteran of the Second World War, the story of four black GIs abandoned high in the Appenines while the Allied troops fought to drive the Germans across the so-called Gothic Line and northwards. His main aim in the film, he told journalists in Rome, was “to restore the voice of black soldiers who fought in the war. Black soldiers always fought with great courage and sacrifice for democracy; they were always distinguished by their heroism and humanity, but back home they were still considered second-class citizens.”
Spike Lee is a little rat who said the levees were dynamited during Katrina, IIRC. If for no other reason than my high blood pressure, I usually try to avoid his films.
Spite Lee does war. I haven’t seen anything by him in quite a while, but I saw bits of Son of Sam on TV a few days ago. He STILL strikes me as a film student in search of a “style.”
The important question is, why is it rated R? Remember, Passion of the Christ was rated R, yet Christians absolutely flocked to it. Saving Private Ryan was an R-rated war movie, yet it didn’t have any objectionable ‘adult content’ that I could remember, just loads of violence. If there is actually ‘adult content’, yeah I’d probably stay away from it, but I don’t mind violence or even nudity at all if it’s for purposes of historical accuracy (ie, Schindler’s List).
On a side note, anyone seen Traitor yet? It looks like it could be really interesting, but I haven’t seen enough of it to get an idea of what kind of stance the film takes on the whole Jihad idea, or if it doesn’t and it’s just an action movie.
Here was the description at Yahoo movies:
Four soldiers from the army’s Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines.
Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema.
There you go, America treats blacks worse than fascist Italy under Mussolini.
It is about the massacre of innocent men, women, and childen (even unborn babies, which even the ancient Romans would not kill).
I can't imagine what would SAVE the lives of FOUR SOLDIERS when a village is being massacred.
In the case of the attack on the Indian village that Father Sebastien Rale was in in 1724 (August 23, I think), there were 7 Indian warriors that died trying to saved the priest.
In an attack on the village a year or two earlier, the Indian Warriors (or Braves) held back the attackers so that Father Rale could escape as well as women and children...
It does not sound like these American Soldiers tried to fight the German Nazis who were about to massacre the village...
Oh well, in one case (Father Rale in 1724) we are talking about Native Americans defending their village.
In the Spike Lee film, we are talking about African American soldiers in a small Italian village...
Just change the title to something more appropriate -- The African Americans Have Landed (just in fun). But there were African American fliers in Italy, as well as the Japanese American soldiers in Italy.
The Japanese American soldiers were very highly decorated and they had a very high casualty rate. Yet their families were herded off to prison camps while they went off to fight for America.
Once this film comes out, they should review Spike Lee's versus the movies on the NAVAJO CODE TALKERS (two movies about them were made -- Battle Cry had them in that movie -- as well as a more recent movie WindTalkers).
I just don't remember the movie about the Japanese Americans in Italy, but they do deserve recognition.
And there was a positive movie made about the African American Army pilots, but I can't remember the name of that movie...
Go For Broke! (1951)
This movie is about the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
It is the story of Japanese Americans fighting for the United States in World War II despite the internment of their families by the US Government...
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