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Post by moviemouth on Jul 15, 2020 11:56:57 GMT
Or how prison life apparently wasn't that bad for African Americans in 1930s Mississippi.
Seriously, this movie barely has any conflict. Fair guards, no fences, cookouts, baseball, conjugal visits and when one of the prisoners gets the white warden's daughter pregnant all that happens is some questions and then it is forgotten.
The fuck?
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Post by ck100 on Jul 15, 2020 12:16:10 GMT
Isn't that movie supposed to be a comedy? I guess the filmmakers didn't want the film to be serious and dark.
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 15, 2020 12:43:42 GMT
Isn't that movie supposed to be a comedy? I guess the filmmakers didn't want the film to be serious and dark. Yes, an R-rated comedy that has no balls. It sets up racial conflict and barely does anything with it.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jul 15, 2020 14:21:53 GMT
Or how prison life apparently wasn't that bad for African Americans in 1930s Mississippi. Seriously, this movie barely has any conflict. Fair guards, no fences, cookouts, baseball, conjugal visits and when one of the prisoners gets the white warden's daughter pregnant all that happens is some questions and then it is forgotten. The fuck? There are differing sorts of prisons, category "A" onwards. Back then in the States there were work farm prisons, such as the one depicted in this picture. The guy who got the gal pregnant, it was made clear he was a baseball star in waiting and subsequently he got out after palms were greased - nothing much has changed there for sports stars... Plus, it was not proved who was guilty of the deed, if you remember the whole prison stepped forward to take the blame for doing the deed - Dirty Dozen style!
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Post by johnspartan on Jul 15, 2020 16:11:11 GMT
Or how prison life apparently wasn't that bad for African Americans in 1930s Mississippi. Seriously, this movie barely has any conflict. Fair guards, no fences, cookouts, baseball, conjugal visits and when one of the prisoners gets the white warden's daughter pregnant all that happens is some questions and then it is forgotten. The fuck? That movie is a COMEDY not a drama, that's why.
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 15, 2020 17:07:28 GMT
Or how prison life apparently wasn't that bad for African Americans in 1930s Mississippi. Seriously, this movie barely has any conflict. Fair guards, no fences, cookouts, baseball, conjugal visits and when one of the prisoners gets the white warden's daughter pregnant all that happens is some questions and then it is forgotten. The fuck? There are differing sorts of prisons, category "A" onwards. Back then in the States there were work farm prisons, such as the one depicted in this picture. The guy who got the gal pregnant, it was made clear he was a baseball star in waiting and subsequently he got out after palms were greased - nothing much has changed there for sports stars... Plus, it was not proved who was guilty of the deed, if you remember the whole prison stepped forward to take the blame for doing the deed - Dirty Dozen style! So, in Mississippi in the 1930s there were prison farms that were like wonderland for black prisoners?
If you say so.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jul 15, 2020 18:31:10 GMT
There are differing sorts of prisons, category "A" onwards. Back then in the States there were work farm prisons, such as the one depicted in this picture. The guy who got the gal pregnant, it was made clear he was a baseball star in waiting and subsequently he got out after palms were greased - nothing much has changed there for sports stars... Plus, it was not proved who was guilty of the deed, if you remember the whole prison stepped forward to take the blame for doing the deed - Dirty Dozen style! So, in Mississippi in the 1930s there were prison farms that were like wonderland for black prisoners?
If you say so.
TBH, if you are going into a Murphy/Lawrence comedy film and expecting a deep cerebral look at penal colonies of the deep south - well you should consider changing your user name.
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Post by Vits on Jul 15, 2020 18:45:00 GMT
6/10
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 15, 2020 18:52:58 GMT
So, in Mississippi in the 1930s there were prison farms that were like wonderland for black prisoners?
If you say so.
TBH, if you are going into a Murphy/Lawrence comedy film and expecting a deep cerebral look at penal colonies of the deep south - well you should consider changing your user name. When I am going into a Murphy/Lawrence comedy that is specifically about African American prisoners in Mississippi, I should be getting something with a bit more edge and racial conflict. You don't get good comedy by tiptoeing around the subject. It is like a sex comedy that hardly ever gets into the subject of sex. Reminds me of why I dislike Zack and Miri Make a Porno. The cutesy film about trying to make a porno. Give me a break.
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Post by Marv on Jul 15, 2020 20:21:54 GMT
Its a comedy.
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Post by millar70 on Jul 15, 2020 20:39:03 GMT
It's a comedy, so there's obviously a bit of shine added, but that's probably a lot more of an honest portrayal of that kind of life than you seem to want it to be.
I know there's a narrative of hate that must be adhered to at all times nowadays, but honestly, what do you think was happening to black prisoners in places like that in the 1930s? Do you think it was neverending torture or something? Something similar to a concentration camp atmosphere?
Obviously, I'm not saying it was a cakewalk to be a black man in a Mississippi prison in 1935, but that movie is actually more accurate to what it was really like than what you're thinking in your head.
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