tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post5607458110102142394..comments2024-03-28T18:11:29.865-04:00Comments on UNDERNEWS: Why the medias doesn't like Green BookUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-1464920491367761492019-03-03T16:18:55.423-05:002019-03-03T16:18:55.423-05:00I saw Green Book and liked it very much. Aside fro...I saw Green Book and liked it very much. Aside from superb acting and a tight script, I thought the movie did a good job of showing human growth over time as a black musical virtuoso and his Italian-American driver made their way through the South, where they experienced bigotry in its rawest forms as well as its more genteel but still cutting manifestations. People have seemed angry that this is a "white" ovie in that the focus is on a whit4e man overcoming his own bigotry as he drives the black musician about. Gradually, and with some reluctance, that two men become buddies. As my partner said, "This is today's Huckleberry Finn" and he has a point. One of the great classics of American literature remains controversial but no less timely and powerful today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-5056057476955221832019-02-26T13:30:59.319-05:002019-02-26T13:30:59.319-05:00Describing the film as "historically inaccura...Describing the film as "historically inaccurate" may be generous, according to the following article:<br />https://shadowandact.com/the-real-donald-shirley-green-book-hollywood-swallowed-whole<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-38100382185954496662019-02-25T20:20:32.953-05:002019-02-25T20:20:32.953-05:00"Progress comes not from denying history, but..."Progress comes not from denying history, but by replacing it."<br /><br />Very true. Which is why these movements to tear down statues (re: the Charlottesville incident) is so misguided. We need to remember the past so we can triumph over it - not some vacuous "1984" Big Brother solution sending it all down the memory hole. So just ask yourself where does that end? I'll tell you where - it's called "a boot stamping a human face forever".<br /><br />The Green Book debate also points out the fact that while many are sincere with their passion, there are also many race-baiting hustlers in the media that only want to make things worse - which is why they don't want to see movies like Green Book how people can overcome the race issue (and other issues) that divide us.<br /><br />They literally EXIST to promote division - not to solve problems - and never to treat people as individuals - only as groups to be locked in battle.<br /><br />We saw that on display with Jussie Smollette. It's toxic and cancerous.<br /><br />I for one am glad Spike Lee didn't win - did you see his pathetic reaction? He also backs the "Charlottesville hoax" - that Trump made comments saying Neo-Nazis were good people - which he never said (he said there were good people on both sides on the statue issue). The problem is the news organizations know this isn't true but keep pushing it to fit their agenda. All to incite more hatred and division.<br /><br />If the security camera had not been facing away from Jussie and his hoaxed attack - it would have gone viral and we may well have had many riots in this country. Keep that in mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com