Mississippi Burning was fucking bullshit.

[brawndolicious]

I was reading a book on the civil rights movement and it explains how the FBI went to extraordinary lengths to try to stop the civil rights movement.  Like they would put a bug King's house and they would threaten King with releasing audio of him fucking his wife and say that he's actually having an affair.  They also tried to paint King as a communist.  This was largely because the head of the FBI (I think it was Herbert Hoover but I'm sleepy so I might have forgotten his name) did not like the black peoples...apparently.

Anyways, the movie talks about the actual civil rights movement for like 5 seconds and the rest of the movie is about the white good cop and bad cop saving the poor, helpless darkies from the oppressive lil' sheriff.  In reality, it took a long ass time for the FBI to actually start anything and it's obvious that they wouldn't have cared if it wasn't for the negative media attention.  I think the only reason I actually liked the movie was because of Gene Hackman but he probably just did it for the money.

[recursivelyenumerable]

lol herbert hoover

[brawndolicious]

like the vacuum, man.

edit: added the comma!

[recursivelyenumerable]

Had you really never heard of J. Edgar Hoover before reading whatever book?

[Mandark]

lol herbert hoover

I await am nintenho's follow-up post, about the Nation of Islam and Professor X.

[Beezy]

lol herbert hoover

I await am nintenho's follow-up post, about the Nation of Islam and Professor X.

[Ichirou]

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[DJ_Tet]

I've only seen the movie once (when it was in theaters) but I gotta believe that Gene Hackman + Willam Dafoe holds up over time.

[AdmiralViscen]

Herbert  :'(

Wasnt Hoover a cheeseburger surprise or something?

Allegedly a cross-dresser. Alleged by a number of people lol

[Tauntaun]

HERBIE HANCOCK!  D+!!

[FlameOfCallandor]

THIS THREAD DELIVERS!! 

[brawndolicious]

Had you really never heard of J. Edgar Hoover before reading whatever book?

I know who he is and how he created the FBI but I guess everybody referring to him as "J. Edgar" is what made me forget his first name.

DJ Tet, the movie was entertaining but it was also very white-washed.  Which is a really big kick in the nuts when it's a actor I like as much as Gene.

[Eric P]

I know who he is and how he created the FBI

*cough*

he just altered it to its modern form.

the organization is actually 100 years old

[brawndolicious]

I know who he is and how he created the FBI

*cough*

he just altered it to its modern form.

the organization is actually 100 years old

I'm making a point that he was racist, not what crap he created or altered!

[DJ_Tet]

Had you really never heard of J. Edgar Hoover before reading whatever book?

I know who he is and how he created the FBI but I guess everybody referring to him as "J. Edgar" is what made me forget his first name.

DJ Tet, the movie was entertaining but it was also very white-washed.  Which is a really big kick in the nuts when it's a actor I like as much as Gene.

That's probably fair, but you have to take into account that the movie is nearly 20 years old.  I'd say we're much more open about our prejudices and history now than we were in 1989 when we were more like 'Hey, no hard feelings right?  Right?'

[TVC15]

Man it's been a while since we had one of these threads.

[brawndolicious]

DJ Tet, the movie was entertaining but it was also very white-washed.  Which is a really big kick in the nuts when it's a actor I like as much as Gene.

That's probably fair, but you have to take into account that the movie is nearly 20 years old.  I'd say we're much more open about our prejudices and history now than we were in 1989 when we were more like 'Hey, no hard feelings right?  Right?'

It's still pretty worthless and considering nobody criticizes the movies obvious pampering today, it's obvious that people are still as racist as twenty years ago.

[DJ_Tet]

DJ Tet, the movie was entertaining but it was also very white-washed.  Which is a really big kick in the nuts when it's a actor I like as much as Gene.

That's probably fair, but you have to take into account that the movie is nearly 20 years old.  I'd say we're much more open about our prejudices and history now than we were in 1989 when we were more like 'Hey, no hard feelings right?  Right?'

It's still pretty worthless and considering nobody criticizes the movies obvious pampering today, it's obvious that people are still as racist as twenty years ago.

I'd say people are much more open about their racism nowadays as opposed to twenty years ago.  I don't know that people avoid criticizing Mississippi Burning so much as it doesn't register on anyone's radar.  I'll have to take your word for it's blatent white washing though, as I was a young boy when I last saw the movie.

[brawndolicious]

well I'm not trying to only give my take on it.  more that there were some obvious facts there that any writer would have found out when researching this movie and that they ignored them for a more sweet little movie.  it's sorta sad.

[Eric P]

well I'm not trying to only give my take on it.  more that there were some obvious facts there that any writer would have found out when researching this movie and that they ignored them for a more sweet little movie.  it's sorta sad.

this always happens though, so it shouldn't really be a surprise

"artistic liberty"

[Joe Molotov]

In the historical fanfiction that I'm writing, Herbert Hoover used FBI agents to try to hunt down and kill the infant Martin Luther King Jr, his birth having been foretold by three wisemen. Luckily, Baby King Jr. and his mother Rosa Parks escaped on a bus to Montgomery, Alabama where the Underground Railroad was able to hide him.