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Ferguson and Driving Miss Daisy

posted 10 years ago by bdw317
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I keep saying, the Government and Hollywood have teamed up to take us back to the racially intolerant, fear filled 1950's. The Butler, 12 Years a Slave, The Help, and now, Cook. This is Driving Miss Daisy all over again.

You must understand, most racism exist due to fear, ignorance and lack of knowledge of another race or ethnicity. The Government want to take us back to a time when blacks were feared and viewed as violent thugs, rapist and thieves.

And a few protest, cop killing and looting will go a long way in bringing that spirit back.

Why is this a problem? It is a problem because these race bate movies create too much division between blacks and whites, under the guise of telling a sweet, historical, know your history movie.

However, in recalling where we came from, it revisits painful timelines that we had gotten past. Am I saying that racism was dead? No, heck no! However, these movies make people a little angry.

I cannot speak for all black people, but I am over 50 years of age and every black person that I ask about Driving Miss Daisy, hated the movie and did not think it was warranted that we be reminded of that era.

And there are many white people that loved the movie. Why? You have to ask them.

These race movies are being produced covertly to aide in the Neo-Civil Rights Movement of Ferguson, NYC and the entire country. Almost every black blockbuster movie is race related! Why? Someone has to have a point and a plan here!

And, Oprah is one who knows the plan, as she is behind a few of these movies. She lends her name and face to Selma, and appears in the movie briefly enough to put butts in the seats at theaters.

She has no real role in the movies and it is never explained to the viewer why Oprah's character is so important to the Civil Rights Movement. Yet, like Spike Lee in Malcolm X, strutting across the street in the first scene, here's Opray in Selma, right in our face in the opening scene, declaring, hey, this is my movie!

Now we have Eddie Murphy as The Cook. Hey, Richard Pryor did it also. He was The Toy! And Eddie always wanted to follow in Richards path, so he has done it again. I know, I know, some of you are going to say, chill out, it isn't about race, it's just a movie! It's just a sweet story!

Just as the Jews keep making Schindler's List, Valkyrie, The Monuments Men, Inglorius Basterds, The Pianist, Saving Private Ryan and Captain America The First Avenger and anything they can make that has a Nazi theme, and saying "it isn't about the Holocaust!"

I am not screaming racism! I am screaming Conspiracy here!Just as someone wants the Jews to forever hate Germans and Nazi's, someone wants blacks and whites to forever hate each other!

[–] skepticalmale 10 years ago

I didn't mind Driving Miss Daisy too much , as it showed that jews and Blacks in teh south shared similar problems. Also Miss Daisy's acceptance of Houk increased as the movie went along. they ended as genuine friends.

In The Butler, Forest Whittaker's character maintined his dignity and integrity , despite the situations he found himslef in.

In The Help, the maids ended up in a probaly a worse situation then when they started. And were little more than a plot device to show how nice Skeeter was to tell thier stories. most people seemed happy about teh crap pie scene, but really I don't think the story had a very positive outcome for the maids.

[–] bettina-3 10 years ago

I'm sorry, BDW317, I simply cannot understand how you can mention a whitewashed version of 20th century history like the Help and Lee's superb and primarily factual Malcom X in the same context.

The reason that films like Malcom X, Schindler's List, Twelve Years a Slave, Breaker Morant, the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Matewan, Roots, the Reader, No God, No Master and other factual based historical movies should be made is that they make history real- films give history context and a personal story. They tell stories that many Americans don't know and to which most can't relate. They tell us where we come from and show us where we can go again if we are not careful.
(oh, and I don't think we have been careful- but that's not for a discussion on IMDB)

They also tend to be better films that your run of the mill hollywood crap because the people making them actually care about the story being told.

I know nothing about this film- it might not be a rehash of 'The Toy'- Beresford has made some fine films during his career.

We'll just have to wait and see.

[–] filmklassik 8 years ago

Just as the Jews keep making Schindler's List, Valkyrie, The Monuments Men, Inglorius Basterds, The Pianist, Saving Private Ryan and Captain America The First Avenger and anything they can make that has a Nazi theme, and saying "it isn't about the Holocaust!"

Well, as it happens, the first Captain America movie isn't remotely about the Holocaust. It's set (mostly) in WWII but even so, it barely even involves the Nazis. The main villain in the movie is the Red Skull and his organization Hydra.

Schindler's List is definitely a movie about the Holocaust (who in the world claims it is isn't??) But Saving Private Ryan and Valkyrie were straight up WWII movies that don't deal at all with Hitler's war against the Jews. How exactly were those movies "about the Holocaust"?

Were Patton, the Dirty Dozen and The Guns of Navarone about the Holocaust, too?

"Just as the Jews keep making"...

"Just as the Jews keep making"...

"Just as the Jews keeps making"...

And this guy's presuming to offer us a lecture about tolerance and inclusion.

Unbelievable.

[–] tufanega22 8 years ago

should i wear a tinfoil hat to watch it?