@Orion Pax - thats pretty funny bro but i hope your just being sarcastic.
@Dan Teal,
@blkmale80; great posts bruahs, I agree with both of those well versed statements (on the LBJ parts).
@MacNfries - Mac man is like Detective Joe Friday - "Just the facts, ma'am, man." I can dig it.
Well I actually slipped in 2hrs of time in between working out and then playing with a new couple on MLK day Monday to go see Selma just because of the controversy around it I had to go see it for myself. Thanks to
@syscom3 for motivating me to get off my ass and go check it out to see just how bad it was.
I thought the movie was superb beyond me not immediately identifying with the actor who portrayed MLK. I thought at first when it started oh how boring this movie is going to be but then
"BOOM" the whole movie theater jumped out their seats and that woke everyone up who may have started to fall asleep like me.
The story was very powerful and gripping with the Director Ava DuVernay (not Oprah) doing a fantastic job with the cinematography, costumes, and scenery to convincingly place the audience back in that time period. You felt you were in the middle of thr struggle in Selma with the closeness of the cameras always in the center of MLK and his SLCC cohorts debating on what to do next. Oprah had maybe 3 scenes and no big speaking roles and was just a back drop in the film.
I didn't know much about the story that took place at the bridge and this really shook me to tears uncontrollably falling from my eyes. I also enjoyed how the movie covered the thinking and organizing process of MLK which is something I never really looked at before. I thought the movie did a fantastic job showing how his tactics were so effective in getting the results that caused the huge changes we all reap today. He was a cold-calculator anticipating the moves of his opponents like a Grandmaster Chess-player. I loved that.
Now on to the big controversy - LBJ. I didn't see anything wrong with how LBJ was portrayed in the film. I thought it was fair to him in that he always gave MLK a warm welcome to the Oval office and there was never any hostility, yet LBJ made it clear to MLK that he had another agenda and he wanted MLK to lead the civil rights movement and not to let the black militant radicals hijack the cause. I thought that was probably accurate of how it actually went down. And as
@MacNfries had pointed out earlier, LBJ touted his war on poverty program and told MLK that was a higher priority for him than on enforcing voter rights which was left up to the states.
This dynamic portrayal of the two characters was important for the context, set-up, conflict, and drama of the film and it worked. It was also fair to LBJ in that it showed how he challenged Alamaba Governor George Wallace and those scenes actually got some of the loudest laughs from the movie attenders than any other scenes in the movie. Ol' Gov Wallace tried to talk slick with Pres LBJ but LBJ checked his ass.
The film got 2 thumbs up from me, I enjoyed it and I would go see it again. My brother saw it on the same day with his wife and told me it was "alright" and that he didn't like the actor that played MLK much either, but the actress who played Correta Scott King was a great supporting role along with President LBJ actor, Gov. George Wallace, and the young guy who played John Lewis.
Every American needs to see that movie and be reminded of what so many Blacks, and whites who they showed in the film also were beaten, murdered, and killed by other racist whites, and the KKK. So it didn't leave out the many white people who sacrificed their lives to help the cause.
I think this puts a nail on this topic - the way to have spent MLK day was go see Selma and go fuck a BlackBull, or some white pussy for racial harmony which is exactly what I did that day. There you have it.
Oh yeah and
@syscom3 - that Jewish Rabbi was in the movie too. It didn't miss much but yet people always have criticisms. You can't never please everybody but the people who said to boycott the film are treasonists to what everyone in Selma sacrificed their lives for to move the needle forward in making this country live up to its tenets in the Constitution which all they ever asked for with peaceful protests and were met with such atrocious violence. The people who have said to boycott the film are saying to ignore the injury and injustice that was done all over again. They are literally missing the
BIG PICTURE.
In memory of MLK and the others who died in Selma- may they all R.I.P. and nay-sayers of the film may they rot in hell.
~BBB76
