Posted on 01/26/2016 6:21:18 AM PST by C19fan
“Without an honest confrontation, there is no healing.†That’s from Birth Of A Nation director-producer-star Nate Parker today onstage at the Sundance Film Festival. In what I have to say was one of the most emotional experiences I’ve had at a movie theater, Parker world premiered what he called his seven-year “passion project.†His telling of the early 19th century slave revolt led by Nat Turner had audience members crying in their seats and jumping to their feet in a prolonged standing ovation at the film’s conclusion.
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“Shut your mouth!”
I was hoping someone would catch that! Thank you!
Saw it. I think I actually liked it, but that was long, long ago.
Apparently. Of course they had to throw in the "systematic and brutal torture inflicted by slave owners" in order to justify the "bloody 48 hour uprising" part.
Then we can dig it!
Ride on.
Then there is "Undercover Brother".
Virigina came close to abolishing slavery in the 1830s. (In fact, it missed passage by only one vote one year.)
Then came Turner’s revolt, and the pendulum swung the other way.
Had Virginia ended slavery, other states not in the deep South might have followed suit. (In any event, can one imagine a Confederacy without Virginia? Or with Lee leading the northern armies against the secessionists?)
So Turner’s madness helped fuel other madness.
(But, I’m sure he’s going to be portrayed as a freedom fighter, and calls made for his picture on a stamp, his statue in front of federal offices, and maybe university buildings named after him — a fitting figure for our modern culture.)
It was so violent that iirc most regular theaters were not showing it. I saw it at an arty theater near Harvard Square (of course, that audience liked it).
The story was based on a Nat Turner-like rampage of aboriginal Australians against farming families.
Quote from a site that calls "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" a "great" movie:
"An adaptation of the novel by Thomas Keneally (who also wrote Schindler’s Ark which became Schindler’s List), this brutal film directed by Fred Schepisi deals with the troubling true story of a young aboriginal man who is exploited until he can take it no longer. An act of violence allows the white community to validate their negative behaviour towards him, and the film spirals towards what is an inevitable conclusion."
Blah blah blah
Nothing like going to the theater on a Friday night in the 70’s and being the only group of crackers and honky’s in da place. Not that we felt unsafe being there, but just way out-of-place.
If they (the whites in the audience) failed to cry in their seats and jump to their feet in a prolonged standing ovation, they’d be branded as racists!
Yes, and that was the next line in the song...
By the time he's out of office we'll probably have people calling for the reinstitution of slavery.
What nation do that be?
Didn’t the slaves of Haiti rise up and overthrow their Masters? How did that work out??
Nat Turner was just the Mumia Abu Jamal of his day, only a thousand times more brutal. Turner and his gang didn't just go after their slave masters, they massacred entire families, including the wives and children.
About as well as Zimbabwe turned out after the overthrow of apartheid. South Africa would be in the same boat if it weren't for the massive aid poured in by the US and Europe, because Jacob Zuma is basically Mugabe Lite.
I'm tempted to find Blacula and Black Dynamite and watch...I did watch Undercover Brother and highly recommend - I LMAO. I would love to sponsor showing these films at my local, leftist campus. Believe me, these kids need to learn to laugh.
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