Posted on 05/19/2016 4:15:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
ohn Amos isn’t known for biting his tongue, and that has been well-documented, especially when his character James was killed off of Good Times. But now that the Roots remake is airing soon, the actor has voiced his opinion about the History Channel series and how he’s not sure that it’ll be as impactful as the original version was.
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“I guess it will be contingent upon how well it’s done, but I don’t think it’s gonna have the same impact for a number of reasons,” he said. “One, the circumstances that Roots was originally shown under was totally different circumstances than today. Today there seems to be tremendously more programming that has black subject matter and black characters, both on the screen and behind the scenes, than it existed with the development of the original. So much time has passed.
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Amos also took a swipe at Hollywood and said that the History Channel’s decision to remake Roots is “further evidence, for the most part, that Hollywood is creatively bankrupt. They have to keep going back to what’s been done and what’s successful because they’re pretty much out of fresh ideas.”
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Because the suits wanted JJ to continue to be the minstrel, and Amos was having none of it and stood up to them.
The man knows what he’s talking about.
The point isn’t to be creative but to say white people are evil. Slavery never dies. Black people are oppressed and need reparations.
It will not be on in this house.
I just saw they are ruining one of the best movies of all time- Uncle Buck. They are having an all black tv show with the same name. Will it be as pathetic as “Blackish”? Probably. Come up with your own original, non race related ideas, jerks.
What’s even more important, “Roots” has been shown to be a hoax. See legal issues:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots_(miniseries)
I guess you could call remaking “Roots” an “easy credit rip-off”
It's about the green (and I don't mean the Irish).
Yup.
Plus, they don’t have those great actors any more — Chuck Connors, Doug McClure, Lloyd Bridges, Lorne Greene.
I just wonder how Bookman the Janitor sees it.
Yep, brotha’ stole the story, and made up the connections to his own ancestors. It was a good miniseries though. Almost as good as Rich Man Poor man with Nolte.
Just a new version of an old lie. There is ZERO chance it will air in our house. But I’m sure it will manage to incite more animosity. Which of course if the point.
Roots did not help race relations at all...I am in the Deep South and i can tell you that blacks became more bitter and less friendly after that series played out....I can honestly say that it has never been the same since the airing of it...I was young and remember the vitriol spouted out after it... We were just kids and innocent....it created suc a division...some folks just don’t understand how this keeps us at each other’s throats....I wish it would stop...I’m too old for it now.
It was plagiarized. (Not a hoax in the sense of made up.)
Actually it was a hoax.
I read an article by two professional genealogists and they said it did not even equal amateur standards. Most of the characters did exist but were not Haley’s relatives.
They also mentioned that he did an especially egregious fraud by claiming kinship to the Lea family of Virginia when he wasn’t.
He’s right.
If they were to break out of the box, there is a lot they could do.
Favorite unmade projects -
Lovecrafts “Mountains of Madness” that Del Toro was working on.
The Wendell Fertig Philippine Guerilla movie that was in development (supposedly with Brad Pitt)
Both fresh.
He plagiarized the book from someone else, so obviously it wasn’t his family. It was the rightful intellectual property of another man.
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