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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2137
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 02:08 pm: | 
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ROME: Filmmaker Spike Lee announced plans Tuesday to work on a movie about the struggle against Nazi occupiers in Italy during WWII that he hopes will highlight the contribution of black American soldiers who fought and died to liberate Europe.
The film will spotlight the courage of black soldiers who, despite suffering discrimination back home, offered a contribution that has so far gone largely unnoticed in other Hollywood movies, Lee said at a presentation of the project in Rome.
"We have black people who are fighting for democracy who at the same time are classified as second-class citizens," he said. "That is why I'd like to do a film to show how these brave black men, despite all the hardship they were going through, still pushed that aside and fought for the greater good."
Based on the novel "Miracle at St. Anna" by James McBride, the film tells the story of four black American soldiers, all members of the U.S. Army's all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division, who are trapped behind enemy lines in an Italian village in Tuscany in 1944...
Full article: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/03/arts/EU-A-E-MOV-Italy-Spike-Lee.php |
Moonsigns
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Username: Moonsigns
Post Number: 1988
Registered: 07-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 03:06 pm: |
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Many years ago, I went to a museum that had a featured exhibit about Buffalo Soliders. I've been fascinated ever since. So, as much as I dislike most all of Spike Lee's work, I'd be interested in seeing this particular movie. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 9205
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 04:22 pm: |
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Well, here I go again but I used to work with a guy at the post office who was a WWII vet and had served with a black unit in Italy fighting against the Germans who were trying to take over all the small villages leading to Rome. And, indeed, it is a little known fact how black Army units did see actual combat during this war when most people thought that all black G.I.s did was mop up behind their white comrades and dig mass graves to bury the dead in. This guy told us how he had to play dead once, laying face down for almost a whole day in tracks made by a tank, as the German soldiers just trudged by, ignoring him. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4840
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 - 10:51 am: |
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Based on the novel "Miracle at St. Anna" by James McBride, the film tells the story of four black American soldiers, all members of the U.S. Army's all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division, who are trapped behind enemy lines in an Italian village in Tuscany in 1944...
(That's all well and good. Of course the message is 60 years out of date and Spike ought to be encouraging the brothers and sisters not to join the Army, but he hasn't had a hit in years and is bereft of ideas) |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 9215
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 - 12:30 pm: |
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All history is out of date, chrishayden. That's why it's history. And history is noteworthy. The black infantrymen who risked their lives fighting in WWII deserve just as much recognition as the glorified fly boys who made up the Tuskeegee airman ranks. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2140
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 11:08 am: |
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LOL @ Cynique! Seriously, please continue to provide your first hand accounts of history. I know I am not the only person fascinated.
Moonsigns, I am a big Spike fan though I concede that he often has a habit of swinging big and missing big as well. Did you see "Inside Man," "Summer of Sam" and "25th Hour"? I have heard some say that Spike's true forte is his chronicling of NYC, not necessarilty his depiction of "the Black experience." I am starting to agree. (Though the doc "4 Little Girls" would be an exception.) |
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