Conservatives Outraged!

jet57 said:
Anybody here ever see Mandingo?
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Sure did. Read the book too. The movie portrayed the book rather badly. The book is an outstanding piece of historical fiction and brilliantly portray the depravity and brutality of "that peculiar institution" while simultaneously demonstrating the degenerative affect that slavery had on southern society and culture.

If I remember correctly Ken Nortin was the epninimous star of the film? Unfortunately I had read the book prior to seeing the movie and was not at all impressed with the movie, as is often the case when you read the book first. Though in this case I think the movie sucked on it's own merits, or lack there of. I wouldn't recomend the movie...the book on the other hand is excellent.
 
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Mott the Hoople said:
Sure did. Read the book too. The movie portrayed the book rather badly. The book is an outstanding piece of historical fiction and brilliantly portray the depravity and brutality of "that peculiar institution" while simultaneously demonstrating the degenerative affect that slavery had on southern society and culture.

If I remember correctly Ken Nortin was the epninimous star of the film? Unfortunately I had read the book prior to seeing the movie and was not at all impressed with the movie, as is often the case when you read the book first. Though in this case I think the movie sucked on it's own merits, or lack there of. I wouldn't recomend the movie...the book on the other hand is excellent.
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Mandingo ?....you're going back some now, that was back in the '60s....I too read that book and every book in the series from that author.
I agree with you that the books were excellent reading as opposed to the movie....
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Sure did. Read the book too. The movie portrayed the book rather badly. The book is an outstanding piece of historical fiction and brilliantly portray the depravity and brutality of "that peculiar institution" while simultaneously demonstrating the degenerative affect that slavery had on southern society and culture.

If I remember correctly Ken Nortin was the epninimous star of the film? Unfortunately I had read the book prior to seeing the movie and was not at all impressed with the movie, as is often the case when you read the book first. Though in this case I think the movie sucked on it's own merits, or lack there of. I wouldn't recomend the movie...the book on the other hand is excellent.
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I haven't read the book yet, I will now though. It's like The Grapes of Wrath: the book makes the movie look embarrassingly simple minded. It's one of the deepest reads I've had. Mandingo the movie gives us a very earthy visual of the times and sets up the fear that slaves lived under.

That whole business of the lesser race however really sisn;t take hold until the 1850s when the split really began to come on: it was propoganda meant to whip up the ignorant just like it's used today with patriotism etc. Most southern whites however didn't care about blacks one way or the other, they had no slaves: a lot of them had no land of their own anyway.

Very early on in this country whites; endentures adn prisoners wlorked and ate side by side. Their kids played together as well, so the whole racist thing was first all but concocted to beat the war drums, and then the radical Republican carpetbaggers lit the fuse to the bomb that we live with today and was impotantly recorded during the Civil Rights era.
 
I want to know why these people felt compelled to make a movie about 19th Century slavery. Perhaps it's an invitation to today's democrats to connect with their slave owner political ancestors.
 
Granule said:
I want to know why these people felt compelled to make a movie about 19th Century slavery. Perhaps it's an invitation to today's democrats to connect with their slave owner political ancestors.
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Yeah, you're not too bright Granule...but you make up for it by being stupid.
 
it just embarrasses all those guys like the duck dynasty douchebag who seemed to think that slavery and Jim Crow were a GREAT way for black folks to live!
 
Granule said:
The real question a liberal has to ask herself is, why was this movie made? Can you tell me that, Dearthla?
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It was made for the same reason most movies are made, a person has an idea, this one from a book, they like the message, and think it will make a good movie and so they get it produced and shown in theaters and hopefully the public will like the movie, the message will be distributed and the people making the movie might make a profit and be recognized for their movie and it's message.
 
Granule said:
The real question a liberal has to ask herself is, why was this movie made? Can you tell me that, Dearthla?
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For the same reason that they made Saving Private Ryan; or Gettysburg or Schindler's List.

Please do us all a favor and read a book.
 
Sardonic said:
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It was made for the same reason most movies are made, a person has an idea, this one from a book, they like the message, and think it will make a good movie and so they get it produced and shown in theaters and hopefully the public will like the movie, the message will be distributed and the people making the movie might make a profit and be recognized for their movie and it's message.
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Rana. The pourest of 'em all! ;)
 
jet57 said:
For the same reason that they made Saving Private Ryan; or Gettysburg or Schindler's List.

Please do us all a favor and read a book.
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and jet57! The second pourest of 'em all!

Is Dearthla the only liberal on here who shows any real insight into this movie?
 
Granule said:
A compelling story for whom? Leftist race baiters?

Because its sensationalistic crap? Because it might galvanize the Left?
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Not much into the arts, eh?

No worries; I'm sure Hollywood will figure out a way to do a big screen version of "Hee Haw" one of these days...
 
Thing1 said:
Not much into the arts, eh?
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Not much into democrat propaganda.

Thing1 said:
No worries; I'm sure Hollywood will figure out a way to do a big screen version of "Hee Haw" one of these days...
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Hee Haw would certainly have better entertainment value, that's for sure.

This freak show is a guilt festival. A perfect opportunity for self loathing liberals to abase themselves before they project their guilt onto Conservatives.
 
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Granule said:
Not much into democrat propaganda.

Hee Haw would certainly have better entertainment value, that's for sure.

This freak show is a guilt festival. A perfect opportunity for self loathing liberals to abase themselves before they project their guilt onto Conservatives.
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Or, it was just a good & accurate depiction of slavery.

Do you feel guilty about slavery? You seem a little self-conscious.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
what a strange thread.....
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Yeah, I checked in on it when it first opened and could tell it had train wreck written all over.

Just returned to confirm my earlier suspicions.

My two cents: The irony is rich here. Conservatives love individual liberties. Liberals are the ones who get their rocks off getting to decide what is a human being, what isn't, and arriving at 3/5 and first trimester compromises.

The fail here is epic.
 
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