Just saw 12 Years a Slave
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you need to get your movie game up...you look at this and tell me this is not a slave movie
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I didn't really like it. And it could've been that some of the scenes were just hard to take in but I probably wouldn't watch again
I think my point's been proven when u have to reach this hard to find even a handful of movies about slavery not even getting into historical accuracy
Now lets name a couple of holocaust movies...actually I'll just post this http://www.imdb.com/list/1P8uIgLZoZ4/ . That's 50 right there and a lot of those are award/oscar winning movies.
nancac
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then Mississippi burning was a slave movie too by this logic.
Roots and Queen weren't movies, they were tv series. Rosewood and Glory aren't slave movies. The only non-Blackface version of Uncle Tom's Cabin was a minor TV movie.
So that leaves you with Amistad, Beloved, and Amazing Grace, which is a movie about British, not American slavery.
In other words, you've got 2 movies about American slavery left, and both of them are relatively weak.
Written and directed by black men
Noted for being historically accurate
Majority black cast (acclaimed black actors at that) and written from black perspective
This is what black cinema NEEDS. A realistic movie about black history written by and for blacks.
That's all cool and the gang but how about a realistic movie about black history PRIOR to slavery. All anyone wants to make are movies about slavery. Muthafukkas got history prior to slavery, why stop there and take the easy way out?
I think my point's been proven when u have to reach this hard to find even a handful of movies about slavery not even getting into historical accuracy
Now lets name a couple of holocaust movies...actually I'll just post this http://www.imdb.com/list/1P8uIgLZoZ4/ . That's 50 right there and a lot of those are award/oscar winning movies.
I just saw two being previewed last night when I went to see Captain Phillips
You would've been better off just naming Goodbye Uncle Tom. This movie makes Roots look like Willy Wanka and the Chocolate Factory
breh I don't think this is a movie you are suppose to watch over and over. Its suppose to be that hard to watch.
I was just offering my opinion of it doggy