Last sentence aside -- I don't buy Mailer's 'white negro' schtick -- I mostly agree.
Not saying there couldn't be one, but what would such a movie look like? The actual history is one of defeat. Heroic resistance ending in disaster. (I'd still like to see a film about Nat Turner.) The only victory for slaves was in escape. There's something to be said for happy endings, even mythic, fantastical ones. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > Let's be crystal-clear about something. The anti-Birth of a Nation movie > would be as ambitious and as serious as D.W. Griffith's masterpiece. > Although racist, it is one of the greatest films of the 20th century, so > much so that James Agee defended it in the Nation Magazine--even to the > point of denying its racism. > > Tarentino is a shallow artist and a shallow thinker. All of his filmic > breakthroughs were lifted from Hong Kong cinema from the period Michael > Hoover analyzed in "City on Fire". He is totally derivative. > > In terms of his "exposing" the evils of slavery, what in fuck's name are > we talking about? Alex Haley's "Roots" did a much better job. More to > the point, there is absolutely a need for a great film on slavery. It > would show how the great promise of 1865 was turned into the sell-out of > 1877. For that we need someone like an Orson Welles, not a grindhouse > White Negro like QT. > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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