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[Black] Actor Harry Lennix calls ‘The Butler’ ‘historical porn’
MSNBC's The Grio ^ | August 13, 2013 | Staff

Posted on 08/26/2013 1:18:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

lthough director Lee Daniels’ Oscar-baity film The Butler, which is based on the life of real life White House service-worker Eugene Allen, is receiving rave reviews — one black character actor is lashing out at the project.

Actor Harry Lennix, who most film buffs may recognize from his roles in The Matrix trilogy, Get On the Bus and most recently Man of Steel, has said the filmmaker of took Allen’s story and “ni**erfies” it and he has dismissed the project as “historical porn.”

“I read five pages of this thing and could not go any further. I tried to read more of it, and I’m not a soft spoken guy, but it was such an appalling mis-direction of history in terms of taking an actual guy who worked at the White House,” said Lennix in a July interview with Shadow and Act. But then he “ni**erfies” it. He “ni**ers” it up and he gives people these, stupid, luddite, antediluvian ideas about black people and their roles in the historical span in the White House and it becomes… well… historical porn. I refused.”(continued)

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: blacks; hollywood; janefonda; oprah
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All is not well on the plantation, it seems.
1 posted on 08/26/2013 1:18:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We can safely assume that Harry Lennix has already received calls informing him that 'you'll never work in this town again". The left and the race card dealers have no patience with plantation slaves trying to act 'uppity'.
2 posted on 08/26/2013 1:22:49 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good for him. He was also very good in Julie Taymor’s “Titus.”


3 posted on 08/26/2013 1:24:26 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People have stopped going to see it after the first weekend... it will be on PPV and DVD in a few weeks.


4 posted on 08/26/2013 1:26:36 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Actor Henry Lennix ... a profile in courage.


5 posted on 08/26/2013 1:29:28 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wasn't he the leader of Zion in the Matrix movie?


6 posted on 08/26/2013 1:29:31 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: LibLieSlayer

I pray you’re right.
I wouldn’t spend one dime or my precious time to see it.


7 posted on 08/26/2013 1:29:55 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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Just racist propaganda and a leftist rewrite of History.


8 posted on 08/26/2013 1:31:00 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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My wife drug me to see it, and all the way home I talked to her about the historical truth stretching all through it, particularly in regard to Presses Nixon and Reagan. In the end she came to my point of view....


9 posted on 08/26/2013 1:31:14 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
But then he “ni**erfies” it. He “ni**ers” it up and he gives people these, stupid, luddite, antediluvian ideas about black people and their roles in the historical span in the White House and it becomes… well… historical porn.

Bravo. That's exactly what Lee did. He perverted the life of an actual person into his fantasy of history. He definitely gave the Reagans "stupid, luddite, antediluvian ideas about black people" that the Reagans did not hold.

10 posted on 08/26/2013 1:31:30 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=butler.htm


11 posted on 08/26/2013 1:31:35 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: LibLieSlayer

I’m certain you’re correct about that. The cast is a dead giveaway.


12 posted on 08/26/2013 1:32:39 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

By the way, I wonder if Colin Powell agrees with the portrayal of Ronald Reagan in “The Butler.” That certainly would be a more relevant question for him, as a black in the Reagan Administration, than his views on the Trayvon Martin case.


13 posted on 08/26/2013 1:33:17 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Oprah frowns upon such insolence!


14 posted on 08/26/2013 1:33:54 PM PDT by windsorknot (>>>)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I worked for President Reagan. There wasn’t a racist bone in his body.


15 posted on 08/26/2013 1:36:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

I’ve been following Nick Searcy on twitter and he’s ruthless about taking up the fight against the race baiters. I didn’t realize it but his adopted (now adult) son is black.


16 posted on 08/26/2013 1:41:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

2DV,
The comments at the link are a trip!


17 posted on 08/26/2013 1:47:39 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: LibLieSlayer
People have stopped going to see it after the first weekend... it will be on PPV and DVD in a few weeks.

Actually, that idiotic NewsMax story was highly misleading. Even blockbuster movies routinely lose up to 50% of their income after the first week. This movie is down some 33%. In the industry, that is considered very good.

18 posted on 08/26/2013 1:47:55 PM PDT by Paradox (Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
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Yeah well if it were a biography of Reagan or perhaps George W Bush, what would they say about 33% drop in receipts? Never listen to people that you know lie... and hollywood lies about everything in and outside of their movies.

LLS


19 posted on 08/26/2013 1:52:01 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

It’s BOTH a black-centric site and MSNBC, so nothing would surprise me!


20 posted on 08/26/2013 1:52:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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