Keith, that travesty you speak of was Sunset Park, and basketball was the
sport. I name it only in the hopes that good folks everywhere will AVOID
it..
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote:
I completely agree. The white man saves the day angle is so overplayed
it's driving me away from many movies. Last night I had trouble sleeping,
and surfed the tube. There was a movie with Rhea Perlman about a lady who
helps a bunch of tough, inner city kids succeed. I can't remember if she's
their football or basketball coach, or just their teacher. At any rate, I
saw a scene where a hardened young brother told her it couldn't be done
(whatever it was) and then stomped off. I just know later on she'd not only
help the young men do it, but that same brother would probably be the
first one to hug her and say thank you for believing in us.
I turned the channel in disgust.
- Original Message -
From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 9:14:01 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: (Non-sci-fi) the movie Cadence, song End of My
Journey'
I have seen Cadence. Saw it on the big screen in 1990. Own it on VHS. I
don't remember it for this song, however. I remember it for the performances
of Laurence Fishburne, Michael Beach and John Toles-Bey. What I remember
most vividly is the step, call and response of the cadence performed by
the black soldiers imprisoned/enslaved in an army stockade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgAi-77fonAfeature=related
The movie can easily be deconstructed as a trenchant allegory about being
black in America or as yet another movie where what should be a black man's
tale is high-jacked by the less compelling journey of a white man (Charlie
Sheen).
It occurs to me how brave Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Story (1984) was
and is. If Story had not begun as a play (or, if the play had been written
by a white man), the lead, Army Investigator Captain Davenport played by
Howard E. Rollins, Jr., would have been played by a white actor from the
Gregory Peck school of acting.
The movie is unsatisfying on many levels because it concentrates on Charlie
Sheen's rebel without a cause who is just passing through instead of on
the real men doing hard time (primarily for being black in a white man's
army).
~(no)rave!
Said Kakese Dibinga s...@... wrote:
I've never seen nor even heard of this movie 'Cadence' until about 2
hours ago, I came across this clip on Youtube while searching for something
else. I'll buy it this week. Does anyone know whatever happened to Harry
Stewart? This song/performance is emotional...he took it to the cotton
field...Last I heard he never had the song published and was
homeless...Story goes that Martin Sheen met Harry on the street in LA, he
wasn't a professional musician or actor, asked if he wanted to be in the
film, gave him a few lines, yet Harry wrote this song and sang it live in
the movielove to know what happened to him...
'End of My Journey' movie clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMre6qM9TrUfeature=related
Said Yenga Kakese Dibinga
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POB 1782
Los Angeles, CA 90078-1782
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