Roots (Official Thread) (EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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The FINAL slavery themed movie that I will be supporting is Birth Of A Nation. Roots doesn't require a remake if A&E wants to make something African themed they need to do a Mansa Musa miniseries
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And why are they remaking Roots again? We used to watch this ish in school and I went to mixed schools. Hell, BET and Family channel used to show this every year for Black History Month. The original is a classic...Next Gen and Queen.....ehhhh
If you haven't seen Roots, let me sum up
Geordi belongs to a tribe, his best fried is Raj. He becomes a man and met Fanta AKA Ms. Levias from Lean on Me who's pop was OJ. Geordi found the white man, given instructions on what not to do and did that ish anyway, so he was taken by Ed Asner. They try to take over the ship, get hit with the cannon, reach America. He gets sold to Lou Goussett Jr massa, given chores a name which gets beat into him. Jordi grows up and becomes James Evans/McDowell. He keeps tryna escpae until they chop off his foot then he gets sold to Mike Brady and meets Queen Aoleon and they give birth to Kizzy. Sandy Duncan teaches Kizzy to read, so she forges papers for Coochise who finally gives up the name after a whipping. She gets sold to Massa Chuck Connors who loves his coffee so then comes Chicken Ben Vereen. Chicken goes off to make some chicken, buys his freedom and land. But he leaves his sons Tom and whatever young son name was and his grandson Willis Jackson. You got the war, end of slavery, birth of the Klan...Tom dealing with real ish...then Chicken George returns for his family...The End. Oh yeah Maya Angelo was Jordi's grandma
If you haven't seen Roots, let me sum up
Geordi belongs to a tribe, his best fried is Raj. He becomes a man and met Fanta AKA Ms. Levias from Lean on Me who's pop was OJ. Geordi found the white man, given instructions on what not to do and did that ish anyway, so he was taken by Ed Asner. They try to take over the ship, get hit with the cannon, reach America. He gets sold to Lou Goussett Jr massa, given chores a name which gets beat into him. Jordi grows up and becomes James Evans/McDowell. He keeps tryna escpae until they chop off his foot then he gets sold to Mike Brady and meets Queen Aoleon and they give birth to Kizzy. Sandy Duncan teaches Kizzy to read, so she forges papers for Coochise who finally gives up the name after a whipping. She gets sold to Massa Chuck Connors who loves his coffee so then comes Chicken Ben Vereen. Chicken goes off to make some chicken, buys his freedom and land. But he leaves his sons Tom and whatever young son name was and his grandson Willis Jackson. You got the war, end of slavery, birth of the Klan...Tom dealing with real ish...then Chicken George returns for his family...The End. Oh yeah Maya Angelo was Jordi's grandma
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Dirty D
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It's good that they're remaking Roots. It's been 40 years, and kids today won't watch anything that isn't in HD. I saw the original Roots in the '80's in Pakistan as a little kid (probably 6 or 7) and it blew my mind. As long as it's done well, this can only be a positive thing.
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Reading the book Imaro and this is one character that needs to be brought to film.
He's playing Cyrus.
Jonathan Rhys Myers playing a slave owner... 
Wasn't he fired for going on a racist rant?
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Shyt looks dope. Definitely checking for this.
BlackSexyllence
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They aren't gonna watch this one either. The truth is Rioots was an epic event in its time and probably all the way to the 90's. It's gonna be very hard to recapture everything about it - the tone, the grittiness, the acting..it had all of America on edge. All of black (TV) Hollywood was in it...Hollywood TV in general. This just feels like a shiny just-another-slave-movie.
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They need to go head and remake Shaka Zulu
yay more movies or miniseries where were enslaved to cacs and watch them rape our women
ThatTruth777
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Yeah just what we fukking need in 2016.FOH.
You know what would be "epic"? A series based on an African kingdom or anything that shows how powerful we were for all the thousands of years BEFORE slavery.
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hold on now, those "facts" are debatable..
I mean who really knows what went on back then and even so, "we" don't have anyone to authenticate that :mjcacpls:
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Ol’Otis
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might watch
still prefers the original one tho
still prefers the original one tho