That's a chicken-and-egg question: it makes them both bad... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelwyn" <ravena...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:28:52 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: "Avatar" Keeps Rolling on Worldwide
President Woodrow Wilson served as President of Princeton University and was a leading intellectual of the "progressive era." He also brought many white Southerners into his administration, and tolerated their expansion of segregation in many federal agencies. He was elected President in 1913 (two years before BOAN was made). I say all this to say Wilson was smart enough to know BOAN was chocked full of lies and he endorsed it anyway. Does that make the movie or the man more evil? ~rave? --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> wrote: > > And President Woodrow Wilson, after seeing a private screening of "Birth of a > Nation" at the White House, called it the "most important movie ever made". > No surprise: he presided over a lot of decisions that strengthened > segregation in a wide swath of American life. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@...> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 8:20:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: "Avatar" Keeps Rolling on Worldwide > > > > > > > Shot by a genius that was personally responsible for the rebirth of the kkk > and the racial stereotypes about black men, and mexicans that are still with > us today. > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Kelwyn < ravena...@... > wrote: > > > Content aside, "Gone with the Wind" like "Birth of a Nation" is savvy, > populist entertainment. If you are racially sensitive, avoid both at all > costs as the narratives will suck you in. "Nation" is truly remarkable on > just a technical basis. It is still a gorgeous looking film. D.W. Griffith > was a cinematic genius. > > ~rave! > > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@> wrote: > > > > > > > > In terms of pure dollars, "Avatar" will soon become the biggest of all > > time. (In terms of dollars adjusted for time, sadly, I think "Gone With the > > Wind" is still the champ). The country-by-country breakdown is pretty > > interesting. Australia over thirty mill, France, Algeria and Tunisia, over > > a hundred, and ninety mill in Russia? Wow, truly an international hit. > > Even Turkey with eight million. But what's up with Syria: only eighty-seven > > thousand? > > > > > > > > > http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=avatar.htm > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Post your SciFiNoir Profile at > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo > ! Groups Links > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ > > > > > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >
