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How the West wasn't white: Building a diverse 'Magnificent 7'
LA Slimes ^
| 9-23-2016
| Josh Rottenberg
Posted on 09/23/2016 8:11:16 PM PDT by brucedickinson
The western constantly changes depending on where we are as a society, Fuqua explained. What I wanted to do was bring it up to date and show people its an exciting genre. It represents who we are, what the promise of the United States is supposed to be.
The 1960 Magnificent Seven itself a remake of Akira Kurosawas 1954 epic Seven Samurai had featured white actors in even some of the non-Caucasian roles, with Eli Wallach playing the bandit leader Calvera and Horst Buchholz as a young Mexican gunslinger named Chico.
In Fuquas remake, by contrast, four of the title heroes are nonwhite, including Washingtons Sam Chisolm; Comanche warrior Red Harvest, played by Native American actor Martin Sensmeier; South
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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Pets/Animals; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: diversity; hollywood; magnificentseven; moviereview; movies; westerns
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To: Sasparilla
81
posted on
09/24/2016 10:16:23 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Vote Trump. Defeat the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Reset America.)
To: alexander_busek
Then there was Robert Morley as the Emperor of China, and James Mason as the Chinese ambassador in the 1965 version of Gengis Khan.
82
posted on
09/24/2016 11:02:28 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(HANDGUNS; You don’t need it until you need it. And when you need it you NEED IT!”)
To: TADSLOS
..***crickets***...
The Comanches didn’t say that.
83
posted on
09/24/2016 11:06:59 AM PDT
by
Sasparilla
(Hillary for Prison 2016)
To: Tijeras_Slim
84
posted on
09/24/2016 11:18:52 AM PDT
by
WENDLE
(What advantages will H have in the "custom podium"?)
To: Alas Babylon!
85
posted on
09/24/2016 11:20:01 AM PDT
by
WENDLE
(What advantages will H have in the "custom podium"?)
To: MayflowerMadam
She!!will be working over time. -— Satan
86
posted on
09/24/2016 11:21:26 AM PDT
by
WENDLE
(What advantages will H have in the "custom podium"?)
To: brucedickinson
What I wanted to do was bring it up to date and show people its an exciting genre. Awww go Fuqua self.
To: alexander_busek
Can you prove otherwise. ? You may enjoy living a lie— I don’t.
88
posted on
09/24/2016 11:27:43 AM PDT
by
WENDLE
(What advantages will H have in the "custom podium"?)
To: pgyanke
That is about as close as they came to “cowboy” .
89
posted on
09/24/2016 11:28:42 AM PDT
by
WENDLE
(What advantages will H have in the "custom podium"?)
To: brucedickinson
I will never watch that PC crap.
90
posted on
09/24/2016 11:29:26 AM PDT
by
WENDLE
(What advantages will H have in the "custom podium"?)
To: brucedickinson
I like Denzel and Pratt - although don't know about Pratt in a western, but westerns are my favorite genre and I practically have the 1960 version memorized so won't be paying to see this.
I mean replacing McQueen, Brynner, Coburn and Bronson ... I don't think so.
Talking movies - I would pay to see "Sully" - again.
91
posted on
09/24/2016 11:31:27 AM PDT
by
Let's Roll
("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
To: Hootowl
What a crock. Where do people make this stuff up? Why do people rewrite history for PC consumption? It is funny to read. 25% BEWWWHAAAAAA!!” THEY SAY” — Who the heck are “THEY”?
92
posted on
09/24/2016 11:32:37 AM PDT
by
WENDLE
(What advantages will H have in the "custom podium"?)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Bunch of carpet baggers? Oh there were several carpet baggers. Yes in deed. But we were talking actual “Cowboys “ for hire who strung fence and rode cattle and broke broncs and shot and killed indians who attacked them. Not “Baggers”.
93
posted on
09/24/2016 11:38:11 AM PDT
by
WENDLE
(What advantages will H have in the "custom podium"?)
To: WENDLE
but one of them was not the real wild west......UMMM, if you read, most cowboys in the West were blacks from the Civil War who went there to leave the South far behind and find real freedom. A LOT of law enforcement was blacks in the Indian Territories.
94
posted on
09/24/2016 11:54:28 AM PDT
by
Safetgiver
(Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: WENDLE
95
posted on
09/24/2016 12:07:19 PM PDT
by
Safetgiver
(Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: WENDLE
96
posted on
09/24/2016 12:11:10 PM PDT
by
Safetgiver
(Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: Safetgiver
Not true as far as facts are concerned. What we have is wishful thinking by the PC crowd.
97
posted on
09/24/2016 2:12:58 PM PDT
by
WENDLE
(What advantages will H have in the "custom podium"?)
To: WENDLE
Bass was sort of Rooster Cogburn (of True Grit) with a tan. One thing not mentioned in the Wikipedia article you were pinged with, is that he was illiterate, and would dictate his reports to folks he stayed with along the trail. Actually, a Denzel Washington movie of his life would have been both more original and interesting.
To: Safetgiver
Wikipedia is full of total contrivances. Many of their fabrications are to promote political correctness. The actual facts were no black cowboys. Zero.
99
posted on
09/24/2016 2:16:17 PM PDT
by
WENDLE
(What advantages will H have in the "custom podium"? Does she get a fan ?)
To: Tijeras_Slim
Total fantasy. Never heard such .
100
posted on
09/24/2016 2:18:21 PM PDT
by
WENDLE
(What advantages will H have in the "custom podium"? Does she get a fan ?)
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