On 10/3/20 8:34 AM, jenorem via groups.io wrote:
The answer depends on whom you ask, and when.
The long-awaited premiere
<https://tvreleasedates.com/the-good-lord-bird-delayed-showtime-announces-new-release-date/>
of Showtime’s “The Good Lord Bird
<https://www.sho.com/the-good-lord-bird>,” based on James McBride’s
<https://www.jamesmcbride.com/> novel
<https://www.nationalbook.org/books/the-good-lord-bird/> of the same
name, comes at a time when evolving popular perceptions of Brown have
once again gotten people thinking and talking about him.
What the fuck? A TV series about John Brown based on a novel described
in the link above as:
"In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as
Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing
project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of
everybody shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range."
What in god's name does that have to do with John Brown? I watched just
30 seconds of a trailer for the Showtime "adaptation" and found it
utterly disgusting, with Ethan Hawke coming across as a psycho. Sounds
even worse than this:
Last night at 6pm when I was surfing through my Verizon TV “favorites”,
I noticed that the Turner Classic Movie (TCM) network was airing “Santa
Fe Trail”, a 1940 movie that was described in the following terms:
“Romantic rivals get caught in the battle to stop abolitionist John
Brown.” What the fuck? The battle to stop John Brown? This I had to see.
Although the film is a reactionary and racist piece of trash, I urge my
readers to watch it online through Youtube since it is an essential
cultural artifact of the New Deal. The writer/director team consisted of
Robert Buckner and Michael Curtiz, the same people who brought you
“Mission to Moscow”.
Despite the title, the movie has nothing to do with wagon trains or
fighting off Indians. It is, as stated in the TCM blurb, an account of
the military campaign against John Brown led by J.E.B. “Jeb” Stuart that
climaxed with the raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown’s capture and
eventual hanging. The opening caption says it all:
1854 – The United States Military Academy – West Point. When the gray
cradle of the American army was only a small garrison with few cadets,
but under a brilliant Commandant, named Robert E. Lee it was already
building for the defense of a newly won nation in a new world.
https://louisproyect.org/2012/04/10/santa-fe-trail/
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