Posted on 04/05/2008 9:40:17 PM PDT by Enchante
His movie chronicled the trial of the Chicago Seven, the free-wheeling activists whose protests during the 1968 Democratic National Convention prompted a police riot and became a touchstone for the movement to end the war in Vietnam. (The "10" in the title includes co-defendent Bobby Seale and the two lawyers who defended them, William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass.)
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A year later, "Chicago 10" was the opening-night film at Sundance '07. The movie was sold to Roadside Attractions, which at first pushed for an August '07 release. But the political climate didn't seem ready for the movie, Morgen said. "There was a real sense in the anti-war movement, and with a lot of Democrats, a sort of cynicism or a nihilistic feeling - that we just went to the polls and voted and they still sent in more troops," Morgen said. Releasing the film now ties into the election and the 40th anniversary of the 1968 convention this August, he said. Morgen detects "a little less cynicism and a little more inspiration," thanks largely to the candidacy of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, and compares the young protesters of '68 to the college kids mobilizing today. " 'Chicago 10' is ultimately a film about empowerment, about the fact that three or four guys can change the course of history," Morgen said. "The ultimate message is delivered by Jerry Rubin. He said, 'I'm not your daddy. I can't tell you what to do. Everyone's got to figure out what they want to do. You know what you need to do, and go out and do it.' "
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So the distributor didn’t think time was yet ripe to release this dreck as planned last summer...... and they think that turning 2008 into a re-cap of 1968 is the way to propel Obama into the presidency?? Hope that one blows up in their faces, so to speak.....
Shhhhhhh, don’t say nuthin’!! Maybe they won’t realize it. Schadenfreude is a beautiful thing.
:-)
There's so much BS in just this first sentence, I don't know where to start.
Ironically, the title will be an entry in Variety’s national attendance count by city for its opening week.
Wow, libs rewritting history again to influence elections. What a shocker.
Ah yes, thanks to American radicals the communists won in Vietnam and one of the dominos that did fall was Cambodia. We all know what happened in that communist utopia. A few people can “change the world,” indeed.
This movie, as a movie, as a history, as anything at all, is suppposed to be terrible. I read a couple of weeks ago the Sundance audience stood up and cheered. A whole new generation of idiots being spoon-fed “history lessons”.
I attended about half the sessions of this trial. I was active during the 68 convention. I had already soured on the “leadership” of the anti-war movement by then, and I had already served in the Army and was out by the age of 21. The trial, as conducted by Julius Hoffman, and prosecuted by Tom Foran and others, was a farce in and of itself, and so were Abby and Jerry and Hayden, et al. One day , waiting for the afternoon session to begin, I, along with dozens of other spectators, were sitting on the floor outside the courtroom, all the benches being filled. I was engrossed in a book about race relations called “White over Black”, when I felt something strange: there was a hand in my pocket! I looked up and there was a wild-eyed and sweaty
Abbie Hoffman with his hand all the way inside my pocket, mumbling “I need MONEY!! You much be rich, you’re readin’ a book!-—I explained all I had was bus fare, and would he take it elsewhere. He went up and down the line of people asking for money, saying he wanted to get high, which is exactly what I saw him do on the streets of CHicago, during the Convention.
Will they show Abby Hoffman getting booed off the stage at Woodstock?
The police didn't riot.
It was the hippies.
Olympic form from my old hometown.
Would you expect anything different from
Robert “RED” Redford’s anemic film festival?
The last Academy awards were pathetic.
ping
And Mayor Richard J. Daley, whose coppers slapped the hippie-dippie-yippies down hard, became more popular than ever in Chicago, post-’68.
Brett Morgen: The social outreach was very youth-oriented, but the trailer, to me, is not very youth-oriented. In terms of distribution, part of the challenge for “Chicago 10” has been trying to nail down the core audience. I made the film, somewhat obviously, for a youth audience. The reaction that we had from Sundance from most distributors was, “We love the film, we think this film will play like gangbusters for kids, it’s going to cost us $10 million to market it and we don’t know if they’re going to show up.” The more conservative approach to marketing this film is to go for the boomers.
Brett Morgen
Pathetic! Why should we in any way give credibility to opportuistic anarchy? These people are need to put down the peace pipe and jpin the real world!
Piss on the Chicago 7, Piss on this Director, and piss on his “movie”.
BURN DENVER... BURN BABY!
LLS
I’d pay money to see that again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LLS
“The police were not there to create disorder. The police were there to maintain disorder.” Mayor Richard Daley
For the Donkeys we have these guys:Re-Create 68.
While the Elephant team has these: RNC Welcoming Committee. There motto is "Crash the convention." How charming.
They put out this press release (which I'm pretty sure is a joke?)
Mar 14th, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
RNC WELCOMING COMMITTEE ORDERS TASERS FOR EVERY PROTESTOR
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL - The RNC Welcoming Committee (RNC-WC), an anarchist and anti-authoritarian organizing body based in the Twin Cities, announced today that it has ordered tasers for each of its members and friends. The announcement comes on the heels of last month’s St. Paul City Council approval of a St. Paul Police Department (SPPD) request for 234 tasers. Due to a unique corporate-anarchist confidentiality agreement, the exact number of tasers or documentable evidence of this new order will not be disclosed.
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