Posted on 02/10/2006 9:26:13 AM PST by DukeBillie
And yet, I don't object to either film because I feel the first is a shattering cinematic masterpiece, and the second is a pretty good thriller that looks at what I think is a hard and unpopular truth about the unending cycle of violence in the Middle East. In both cases, for me, the end justified the means.
And then he says this of "Glory Road"
On the other hand, I have no trouble being offended by a movie that makes up race-baiting incidents and portrays Seattle as a hotbed of Selma-style racism in 1966. So, like so many things in life, I suppose it just depends on your point of view. When the movie untruth slaps you in the face, it's not artistic license: It's a lie.
So it's a lie when blacks are portrayed wrongly but it's OK for the Jewish events to be portrayed wrongly. DISGUSTING!
No argument there. That's why these movies make such excellent propaganda, and their purveyors know it full well. My point is that there isn't anything you can do about it except cease to attend them, and even then you'll have to deal with the reactions of those who do. Of course it isn't fair. The author only appears to realize that after it's his own sensibilities and memory that are offended.
Thanks for the post. My husband and I thought about going to see this movie, but now I believe we will save our money. Films like this keep us divisive as a country. Many will watch this and believe it is all true. :(
I agree. I don't think artistic license should allow you to use real names, real places, real times and then fabricate what happened. If someone wants to make up a story to make a point or express a moral view then fine, make up a story, but don't knowingly conflate historical events with fiction. Some license with dialog and scenes in portraying private conversations and locations while recreating the past in understandable, but changing facts is not. "Based on a true story" should mean that is true to the facts to the extent possible, otherwise change the names, places and times and call it what it is - fiction.
Excellent points.
Maybe MSM should have to post a disclaimer "based on a true story" when reporting with biased intent. If it's fiction, fine. Just don't try to sell propaganda as truth.
I think there should be a true story movie of the clintons now that could be a masterpiece! But it has to be THE TRUE STORY not the made up truths that the clintons are so good at. But one day there will be a movie of the clintons and can anyone imagine how wonderful the clintons are going to be portrayed! Ick.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Officials at Texas A&M-Commerce University want Walt Disney Co. and the makers of "Glory Road" to apologize for inaccurately linking their school to some of the film's most racially charged scenes.
The movie chronicled the history-making Texas Western Miners, who won the 1966 NCAA title with the first all-black starting lineup in a championship game. It included a "completely false" depiction of a game against East Texas State University, the name of Texas A&M-Commerce at the time, spokeswoman Lorraine Pace said Friday.
In the movie, East Texas fans are shown throwing drinks and popcorn and yelling racial slurs at Texas Western, now known as the University of Texas at El Paso, during a regular-season game in Commerce, Texas. A scene after the game shows a vandalized hotel room, with racial slurs written on the walls in red.
"It was just too awful for words," Pace said.
It never happened, Pace said.
According to UTEP athletic department archives, the Miners played the Lions in El Paso on Dec. 9, 1965. The Miners won 73-51. The Miners won the game in the movie, but the margin was much closer.
"These events - specifically depicted as taking place at ETSU and in the Commerce area - are completely fabricated and go beyond the realms of literary license and decency," A&M-Commerce President Keith McFarland said in a statement.
Though the Jerry Bruckheimer film debuted last month, university officials waited to verify the facts of the game before seeking an apology, Pace said.
The university has asked Disney, Bruckheimer, director James Gartner and the screenplay writers to apologize for the scenes.
Officials with Disney and Bruckheimer's film company weren't immediately available for comment.
The Texas A&M-Commerce complaint isn't the first. Before the movie's nationwide release, supporters of legendary Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp complained that the movie unfairly cast Rupp as a racist.
The Miners, coached by Don Haskins, beat Rupp's all-white Kentucky team 72-65 in the championship game. The movie was adapted from Haskins' book about the season.
Even liberal Sporting News columnist Dave Kindred took "Glory Road" to task, interviewing one of the black players from the Texas Western team who said there were no overtly racial incidents when he played for the Miners. He said he never said "Take that, honky!" to a Kentucky player after dunking saying his mother didn't raise him like that and would have had a fit if she knew how her son was being portrayed.
In an ironic twist, the NCAA Finals a few years ago featured an all-black Kentucky team led by a black head coach, Tubby Smith, who was almost upset by an underdog Utah team featuring a black guard, Andre Miller, and an otherwise all-white lineup. It makes you wonder if, had Utah won, whether the media would have made a major fuss about a white team beating an all-black team. When you look back 40 years ago, one has to question why it was news that an all-black team would beat an all-white team at basketball. Seems an all-white team beating and all-black team would be the greater upset.
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