ronspencer547
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There have been several African-American themed narratives to come out of Hollywood. They're either "first" movies - Pride, Red Tails, or the civil rights movement as seen thru the eyes of white folk - Mississippi Burning, the Help. There are others...
42 is a cross between those two trains of thought. 42, a "negro first" and "it's messed up how we threat these coloreds..." film. At the plates Jack Robinson, first black man to play major league ball in the 20th century. In the on deck circle, the Mahatma, Branch Ricky. He represents the "thru the eyes" part of the equation.
I'm going to throw a fastball... Larry Doby, who started playing with the Cleveland Indians in August of 1947. He wasn't mentioned in this film. Why?
Pasadena, California is a high tone city where rich railroad and oil men lived. It was segregated in the 1940s and still is today in 2014. If you take this picture at its "word" California was(and is) colour blind. We know that's a lie.
Honestly, this story was told in Ken Burns' documentary Baseball. And told better.
Ken Bruns covered this material in his great documentary Baseball.
42 is a cross between those two trains of thought. 42, a "negro first" and "it's messed up how we threat these coloreds..." film. At the plates Jack Robinson, first black man to play major league ball in the 20th century. In the on deck circle, the Mahatma, Branch Ricky. He represents the "thru the eyes" part of the equation.
I'm going to throw a fastball... Larry Doby, who started playing with the Cleveland Indians in August of 1947. He wasn't mentioned in this film. Why?
Pasadena, California is a high tone city where rich railroad and oil men lived. It was segregated in the 1940s and still is today in 2014. If you take this picture at its "word" California was(and is) colour blind. We know that's a lie.
Honestly, this story was told in Ken Burns' documentary Baseball. And told better.
Ken Bruns covered this material in his great documentary Baseball.
"My best memory of the cinema? The sensation given me twelve years ago by a marvelous film, L'assasinat du duc de Guise. It was a complete revelation. If only your compatriots had been able to continue producing such films they would today be the first and foremost film makers in the world." This is a quote from D.W. Griffith to Robert Florey concerning this 1908 French film produced by Film d'Art and distributed by Pathé Freres. And he wasn't the only one, Carl Dreyer was also a fan. Personally, I don't see it. To my eye it looks like the typical tableau one reeler from the era of big gestures from the actors and a stationary camera from the producers.
I thought I'd spoke on this good-bad film, but I guess it didn't take This is set during the PCP craze that rocked black neighborhoods in the mid-1970s. Then folks started freebasing and you stopped hearing about "Sherm" Alley. It became "Crack Alley." If you don't think this place existed, I can take you...
This picture is low end for sure but there is a sincerity in it's message. A decade later, Spike Lee tried to say something about the crack epidemic, but didn't fair quite as well. What was Jungle Fever about when you think about it. The social milieu of Disco Godfather is rooted in genre(the detective story.) Maybe that's why it succeeds where others failed. I don't know... there was more heart here than in many a modern black film. and the karate sequence! what the--
This picture is low end for sure but there is a sincerity in it's message. A decade later, Spike Lee tried to say something about the crack epidemic, but didn't fair quite as well. What was Jungle Fever about when you think about it. The social milieu of Disco Godfather is rooted in genre(the detective story.) Maybe that's why it succeeds where others failed. I don't know... there was more heart here than in many a modern black film. and the karate sequence! what the--