Posted on 02/19/2016 12:02:13 PM PST by rktman
Since Hollyweird likes to remake movies changing white characters to black, maybe they could make the black characters in Roots white and the white characters black. I think that is what blacks really want, white people to be their slaves, and themselves the masters. Come to think of it, we are already their slaves.
By 1989 I’d moved out of the house and no longer had to watch miniseries, so I’ve never seen it. Cast looks good though. Maybe I’ll try it out one of these days.
I’d like to have seen Winds of Whoopee, had to be better than Winds of War, which I distinctly remember boring me to tears.
Well, it could be set in North Africa, and the Black slave-owners could be Mohammedan Pirates.
Plagiarize! Let no one else’s work evade your eyes.
Rockford Files for my pick but not an easy one.
I remember that, especially the line about being liberated from Allie McGraw’s acting.
The Dinosaurs sitcom had its own parody called Nuts To War. It was better than the real miniseries.
I do not recall if I watched more than a few minutes of the Winds of War, but I distinctly recall the promotional build-up for the miniseries (namely, the adverts that seemed to play every 15 minutes on the network on which the miniseries aired). The book wasn’t bad, but the miniseries adaptation, according to the judgment of critics, was so-so.
I concur. Great movie. Have it on DVD.
Oh Lori darling...
I had 2 black labs. Belle & Kizzy.
The History Channel? WTF do they know about history? All they do is replay the same old crap shows week after week.
Roger that. I read that Mel Brooks got some negative feed back from studio execs at the time and was asked to remove certain elements/aspects and he said “Okay.” Left it intact and released it anyway. Good call. I don’t understand why the execs would be concerned about offending railroading buffs with regards to losing a rail car.
“Uh...I actually kind of liked Roots”
So did I and millions of others that were glued to the TV for each episode. It was a beautifully done story even if it wasn’t real historically accurate. Here’s the whole 4-hour miniseries on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRSWiqiiBX0
I was in high school.
Everybody watched it.
It was the opposite of today.
It actually brought Americans closer together.
It didn’t try and put guilt on anyone for what had happened in the past.
There was joke back then that showed how much a house hold name Haley was for Roots.
It went: did you hear Alex Haley killed himself?
No, why?
He found out he was adopted.
Sure Alex Hailey was full of crap about the ‘kamby bolongo’ means river and else with his attempts to tie himself directly to the fictional Kunta Kinte.
It was a scheme for sure but in truth, there really was a slave market and those people certainly did not cross the Atlantic in First Class accommodations.
That is just wrong.
When is a movie called KNOXVILLE coming out?
A detailed account of the savagery suffered by Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian.
Or how about one called HOUSEKEEPER? The story of the only survivor from the DC ARSON Quadruple slaughter of a family?
You don’t have to go back 200 years in history for those.
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