So I'm currently watching "12 Years a Slave".....

[satam55]

and I've NEVER watched any slave movies in my life (besides "Django Unchained"), not even "Roots". So you can say this the first REAL slave movie I'm ever watching.

I'm currently 25 minutes in the movie, tell me why this 'c00n named Clemens got all excited, jumping & up down, and greeted his master like a fukking a dog when his master came to get him?




shyt had me like:


Is this what I've been missing all my life, having never watched a REAL slave movie before?

 

[marcuz]

i dont think you missing much w/these slave films. last one i saw is roots in middle school, it caused all the black students in the class to go out and hunt the 5-6 whites that went to the school

 

[satam55]

i dont know but i dont think you missing much w/these slave films. last one i saw is roots in middle school, it caused all the black students in the class to go out and hunt the 5-6 whites that went to the school

 

[chemicalsword]

that running to the white man for salvation is a theme entirely too many of my brethren succumb to... often times initiated by black preachers...

 

[Handsback]

Keep watching. One thing I liked about the movie was it showed how good you could have it or how bad it could be depending on how much you played the game. Of course considering that this is all relative since you are still considered a piece of property.

I know we like to act like there are absolutes in regards to these circumstances and every slave should've been Nat Turner but it's much more complicated than that. There's a more fundamental question of how much should one suffer for their brother or for pride's sake that will NEVER result in anything beneficial. It's disgusting but that was survival when you were a slave. Now there's no excuse, but I don't think it's fair for us to look back and judge Clemens because he was playing the game. Disgusting but understandable and necessary.

 

[klutch2381]

That actually happened in the book. The movie is good, but it's just the basic story in a cursory sense. The book goes into the psychology of being a slave, and why someone like Clemens would be elated to have his "master" come for him -- opposed to going out into the unknown or ending up on a plantation with someone like Epps.

 

[beenz]

man, I'm watching this fukking movie.

I think I'd have to get lynched. fukk living like that. shyt is for the birds. and if I'm gonna die, I'd at least kill massa while I'm at it.

 

[beenz]

just finished the movie. cant' front, I got some tears at the end . also the part where lupita took those lashes

I hate seeing slaves in movies. shyt always makes me so angry that I tear up. same thing ALWAYS happens when I watch glory where denzel takes those lashes. it never fails.

 

[Dwolf]

Django Unchained is not a slave movie. Its a action comedy parody of slavery movies.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

and I've NEVER watched any slave movies in my life (besides "Django Unchained"), not even "Roots". So you can say this the first REAL slave movie I'm ever watching.

I'm currently 25 minutes in the movie, tell me why this 'c00n named Clemens got all excited, jumping & up down, and greeted his master like a fukking a dog when his master came to get him?




shyt had me like:


Is this what I've been missing all my life, having never watched a REAL slave movie before?

watch the rest of the movie... there are good and bad slave masters

and by good, i mean fukking horrible.. but better than the anti-christ slave master

like maybe you a house nikka.. you go shopping for master.. you cook food.. you get nice clothes.. you sleep in the big house.. he talks to you and shyt

but now you got this new master who beats you for fun, makes you work 18 days, rapes you at night


you basically choosing the lesser of two evils.. cause that's how fukked up life was then for us

 

[Dirty D]

Just watched this movie. It's well made. I thought the dialogue was a bit strange and more British than American in some parts but then I read about the director and some of the actors being Brits so I guess that makes sense. I didn't realize the book it's based on was written by Solomon Northup himself and that he became active in the Underground Railroad, that was cool and in fact deserved more than just a written epilogue at the end. At least give us an act on that part of his life, even if it's a short one.

Gonna re-watch Malcolm X next for some balance.

There needs to be a Nat Turner movie, or that Haitian revolution movie needs to get made. A Chappelle skit and a spaghetti western parody in Django is the closest there's been to seeing slavemasters get what they deserve on screen. And both of those were more comedic than anything.

 

[BXKingPin82]

all I know is I wouldnt have made it
like another poster said I saw Roots in middle school
but I didnt grow up around whites like that
my teachers were white
and needless to say that whole shyt was awkward as fukk
I still remember how we looked at this crakkker muthafukka
like, "why did you show us this?"