But I WANNA play those "cute" and/or "weird" Caucasian-American character actor types!! I STILL wanna play them.
If I can ever get the work!!!!!
Seriously-- Glenn T. mentions in a letter below, Mark Twain who has been under attack for years. To the extent that many schools just don't mention him.
TRUE Story-- My friend Richard does a one-man show geared to various organizations and levels of school. He portrays Mark Twain in a Holbrook-type presentation and is absolutely superb.
Mostly Richard operates in the Texas/Oklahoma area. A couple of years ago he appeared at a junior high somewhere in the Texas panhandle. When he arrived the young female teacher welcomed him heartily and brought him to her class. As he talked with her and got ready to do the show, it became obvious to him that she, the teacher, had NO IDEA who this "Mark Twain" was!!!!!! The TEACHER!!! The ENGLISH Teacher!
Neither the teacher nor the students had ever heard of "Mark Twain."
JR, what was that you said about "western civilization" recently????
Joe B.
"JRS MoviePosterBid.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, I'm tried of remaining silent in the face of the overwhelming racism displayed by the movie industry and the theater exhibitors. Hollywood has a lot to answer for. I am going to start a group which will boycott and protest and threaten until we have achieved recognition and redress for the most put-upon and racially-stereotyped segment in America:The Caucasian-American male.We will not longer allow movies to be shown which feature the inept, clueless pale-skinned husband who is victimized by his smarter children or hoodwinked by his clever wife. Caucasian-American males are intelligent, loving, hard-working and caring spouses who don't deserve to be smeared with such unfair portrayals and ugly caricatures!We don't want to see another film foisted on the public consciousness where white male teenagers are depicted as stupid, drug-using, booze-guzzling, sex-obsessed apes. It is demeaning and traumatic to the Caucasian-American youth of our nation who struggle against the odds to be the best they can be every day!And let's not have any more of those pasty-faced, so-called "action heroes" who always get the girl, can defeat an army single handed, can leap tall buildings in a single bound or spin steel-hard webs around school buses. That kind of fantasy-mongering based on racial stereotyping has no place in the modern world and only serves to instill a sense of creeping inferiority in the oppressed Caucasian-American male.This disgusting racial profiling in film must be ended once and for all! And that includes movies with all those "cute" or "weird" Caucasian-American character actors. Oh, sure, you think they are just playing it for laughs. That it's all just innocent fun. Let me tell you something... every single one of those bit parts is a stab at the heart and a slur on a great race and a great culture and can no longer be tolerated.I know this won't leave hardly any material for making films in the future. Too bad. It's worth it to achieve justice and equality at long last.-- JR----- Original Message -----From: Bruce HershensonSent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 23:17Subject: Re: [MOPO] -Birth Of A Nation - 9/11 - Oliver StoneWhat about every single film with a stereotyped black character? Gone With the Wind will really be "gone with the wind"!
Bruce
At 04:34 PM 8/11/2004, Glenn Taranto wrote:
Sue,
Very well put.
The next to go will be books by folks such as Mark Twain!!! (Farenheit 451 is the temp for book burning I imagine for film it's considerably less!)
Glenn T.
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Susan Heim
- To: Glenn Taranto ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 11:15 AM
- Subject: Re: [MOPO] -Birth Of A Nation - (/11 - Oliver Stone
- Hey Gang,
- I'm with Glenn. People's common sense gets less and less as time goes by. It is sad to me that a film of such historical value, in many areas, would get shelved like this. As a society, we are all aware of prejudices and stereotypes, past and present. Unfortunately, it is part of our history and everyone's history throughout the ages. More to the point, it is part of human nature. A film, made 80-90 years ago, is of historical value. Do we begin to remove all books, fiction or non fiction, that were written in a different time period that reflected different values or opinions? I still love a good John Wayne western but I view it knowing it depicts a time period in our history and, at the same time, I can have my own personal feelings about our disregard of the American Indian. There are a lot of movies and books that I don't like, either artistically or ethically, but I support the right for them to be available. I ! think you learn so much when you see something that is different that what you have previously known or thought. It opens your mind to other possibilities. That doesn't mean you have to accept them as your own, but at least you were open to hearing or viewing them and incorporating other's ideas into your knowledge.
- I saw Birth of a Nation when I was a student at UCLA. For the time period, technically it is an amazing film. It always disheartened me to know that D.W. Griffith died fairly nameless and poor. He was a great storyteller and, for me, that is what makes a great filmmaker. I consider the film a masterpiece of film history. So, when will it stop. Do we cover the statue of David because we want to outlaw nudity in public? Stupid, isn't it.
- Sue Heim
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Glenn Taranto
- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:35 AM
- Subject: [MOPO] -Birth Of A Nation - (/11 - Oliver Stone
- I heard about this on local LA radio.
- The funny thing was the guy who runs the theatre was very apologetic to "all those I have offended" but then when pressed on the issue he started to tell it like it is.
- They were going to show the movie and put it in historical context. It was more of "class" if you will then a screening. There was to be a panel discussion. A point of his, which was very well taken, was that you can go into any video store and rent this film and see it completely out of context which he said, and I agree, is the real danger.
- Not to stir up a hornets nest it's the same as Michael Moore's 9/11. People can't put it in the context that 9/11 is just a film with a decided view point of the director as creator such as Griffith, Moore and Stone. Anyone who looks at a historical film as directed by Oliver Stone and takes it as gospel is also shortsighted.
- It's all a joke to me because there is great folly here but you can't reason with people's emotion. Just can't be done.
- There is a complete loss of common sense these days on what is right and what is wrong. I don't know how it's gotten as bad as it has... A gradual progression I guess...
- Glenn
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: posterdoctor
- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:19 PM
- Subject: [MOPO] Question on LA film showing-Birth Of A Nation
- I was sent the following information about a cancelled LA showing of Birth Of A Nation. Can anyone confirm that this is a true story?
- Thanks, Danny / Seattle
- The owner of the Silent Movie Theater in Hollywood canceled a planned
- screening of D. W. Griffith's The
- Birth of a Nation after the Los
- Angeles branch of the NAACP and a group called the National Alliance for
- Positive Action vowed to picket the theater. Although owner Charlie Lustman
- had planned to show the film with a disclaimer stating that he does not
- endorse the racist content of the film but wants to honor its place in
- cinema history, the two groups had charged that the film would continue to
- poison race relations. Lustman said that he had also received threatening
- phone calls and was concerned about the safety of patrons and 92-year-old
- Bob Mitchell, the onetime leader of the famed Mitchell Boys Choir, who was
- to provide organ music to accompany the film.
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