That guy - 2015-01-27
Selma was a pretty solid movie.
If I understand right, they couldn't get the rights to MLK's major speeches, so they had to make them up. It's weird. But it's still pretty darn good.
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That guy - 2015-01-27 Apparently the narrative film rights to his (major) speeches are owned by a single filmmaker/company.
I think I got this right but I'm not sure.
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infinite zest - 2015-01-27 That's really too bad. Growing up where I did, I never really got much from simply hearing the speech in school. It's a bit of a read but here's an interesting article about my state's racist history, one that everybody likes to pretend didn't exist:
http://tinyurl.com/lacf6br
as such I didn't really understand the man by simply memorizing a speech and doing a report on him in 3rd grade the way I would through a film, or why, and this is totally true, people protested the renaming of a street from Union Avenue to Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. In 1989.
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