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Serenasailor
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Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 973
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 09:35 pm: | 
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Did anybody see the movie Blood Diamond? I saw it yesterday and thought that it was full of bias, and Hollywood melodrama. How much of it was true and how much of it was Hollywood script? Does anybody know? |
Brownbeauty123
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Username: Brownbeauty123
Post Number: 1367
Registered: 03-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 09:41 pm: |
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Could you explain what happened in the movie? |
Serenasailor
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Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 975
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 09:49 pm: |
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The same thing that happens in all Hollywood's depictions of Africa. Africans as wild, unruly, sex-crazed apes, and Europeans as benevolent, peace-loving forces that are helplessly brought into the drama of these ugly, inhumane, fiends. Leo DeCaprio, and this white female reporter were the saving grace of Djimon Hansou and his family. Because he was to stupid and ugly to save his family himself. |
Serenasailor
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Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 976
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 09:52 pm: |
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I also saw the movie "Apocolypto" and they portrayed the ancient Mayans the same way. |
Brownbeauty123
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Username: Brownbeauty123
Post Number: 1368
Registered: 03-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 09:52 pm: |
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LOL
I think I might check this one out.
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Brownbeauty123
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Username: Brownbeauty123
Post Number: 1369
Registered: 03-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 09:53 pm: |
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I forgot about Apocolypto...was it boring? |
Serenasailor
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Username: Serenasailor
Post Number: 978
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 29, 2006 - 09:58 pm: |
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Apocolypto was actually "pretty good" it kept me on "the edge of my seat". Blood Diamond on the other hand had alot of needless and boring scenes in it. |
Zuriburi
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Username: Zuriburi
Post Number: 171
Registered: 11-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 30, 2006 - 06:13 am: |
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Question Serenasailor, why support these kinds of movies that are made and remade (so as to indoctinate each generation)for the purpose of upholding racial perceptions? And, why promote them via naming them on a message board. |
Brownbeauty123
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Username: Brownbeauty123
Post Number: 1372
Registered: 03-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 30, 2006 - 09:53 am: |
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Zuriburi, do you think it would make a huge difference if he didn't name the films nor discussed them? Because ppl are going to form their own outside opinions on everything and I see nothing wrong with doing it on a message board forum. |
Zuriburi
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Username: Zuriburi
Post Number: 172
Registered: 11-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 30, 2006 - 01:44 pm: |
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BB, I think that every little bit of advertising makes a difference.
P.S. he can post whatever he likes, I just asked him why. |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 1365
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 30, 2006 - 01:47 pm: |
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"Did anybody see the movie Blood Diamond? I saw it yesterday and thought that it was full of bias, and Hollywood melodrama. How much of it was true............"
I saw it and yes, it was very graphic and violent. No manufactured drama or lies about it though. The violence in "Saving Private Ryan" was also overwhelming. But it happened. The Africans were forced into diamond mining and the horrific scenes in the movie were well documented recollections from black Africans and international reporters. No fantasy stuff here.
Sierra Leone was under siege by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), dealt with conventional arms dealers, mining companies, gem brokers and mercenaries. All wanted access to Sierra Leone's diamond fields. And much to your dismay, the brutal and seemingly excessively violent scenes by RUF were accurate. The killing of thousands of innocent unarmed residents, the burning of villages, along with their signature atrocity – amputating the arms or hands of men, women and even small children, by the RUF, is well documented. Sorry to hear the movie disturbed you but what you saw on the screen is an enactment of what actually happened. The movie "Blood Diamond", like "Hotel Rwanda", reflected the unfortunate merciless brutality of black Africans against other black Africans. What part of this bothers you?
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