“go murder white people.”
They’ll probably give it an Oscar.
Birth of a Nation was the first movie ever be screened in the Whitehouse
I wonder.
If you read about Nat Turner it seems more like a psychotic break murder spree than a rebellion, if I am remembering correctly.
They stole the title from a 100 year old classic. The original is available on Youtube.
So these are the new blacksploitation films. I’ll pass. I think I’l go rent the original SHAFT.
He’s One Bad Mutha......
That crowd lives couple of sigmas to the left...on both the intelligence and political Bell Curves.
As such, their opinion should be given due regard...e.g., 1 on a scale of 1 to 10.
Next up: Birth of Helter Skelter — The Heroic Struggle Against Oppression by the Manson Family.
Apparently. Of course they had to throw in the "systematic and brutal torture inflicted by slave owners" in order to justify the "bloody 48 hour uprising" part.
It was so violent that iirc most regular theaters were not showing it. I saw it at an arty theater near Harvard Square (of course, that audience liked it).
The story was based on a Nat Turner-like rampage of aboriginal Australians against farming families.
Quote from a site that calls "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" a "great" movie:
"An adaptation of the novel by Thomas Keneally (who also wrote Schindler’s Ark which became Schindler’s List), this brutal film directed by Fred Schepisi deals with the troubling true story of a young aboriginal man who is exploited until he can take it no longer. An act of violence allows the white community to validate their negative behaviour towards him, and the film spirals towards what is an inevitable conclusion."
Blah blah blah
If they (the whites in the audience) failed to cry in their seats and jump to their feet in a prolonged standing ovation, they’d be branded as racists!
By the time he's out of office we'll probably have people calling for the reinstitution of slavery.
What nation do that be?
Didn’t the slaves of Haiti rise up and overthrow their Masters? How did that work out??
Slavery was brutal. Of course the enslaved should revolt. But this particular revolt was horrendous. Plus, it backfired - while Turner was hiding, many innocent slaves were killed in retaliation.
I remember, back about 1967, when this book had America in an uproar, for a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Confessions_of_Nat_Turner
The original Confessions.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/turner/turner.html