WENT TODAY SUNDAY 18TH AUGUST TO SEE THE NEW MOVIE "THE BUTLER" - A MAN WHO WAS BUTLER IN THE WHITE HOUSE OVER 20 YEARS AND MANY PRESIDENTS FROM EISENHOWER TO OBAMA.
IT IS ONE MORE MOVIE [IN THE MEMORY STYLE OF "HELP" AND "42"] THAT SHOWS IN SOME DETAIL, THE HORRIFIC TIME IN USA HISTORY OF RACISM AND SEGREGATION AND THE VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACKS.
IT IS GOOD THAT SUCH MOVIES ARE MADE TO RELATE THIS PART OF AMERICAN HISTORY, FOR INDEED IT SHOULD NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.
THE YEARS OF FREEDOM FOR THE BLACKS, FROM THE FREEDOM DECLARATION THAT ABRAHAM LINCOLN BROUGHT IN, ALL THE WAY TO THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WAS IN REALITY A TERRIBLE, HORRID, HIDEOUS, REPULSIVE, OBNOXIOUS, ODIOUS, APPALLING, HEINOUS, AND DOWN RIGHT SHOCKING, PART OF MODERN USA HISTORY.
ALL THREE OF THESE RECENT MOVIES - "THE HELP" - "42" - "THE BUTLER" SHOULD BE MEDIATORY VIEWING, BY ALL USA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. IT SHOULD BE ABSOLUTE REQUIREMENT THAT TO OBTAIN YOUR GRADE 12 CERTIFICATE, THESE THREE BEFORE MENTIONED MOVIES BE WATCHED BY ALL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, EITHER IN HISTORY CLASS OR SOCIAL STUDY CLASS.
IN THIS MOVIE, ALL ACTORS WERE GREAT, BUT THE LEADING ROLE BY FOREST WHITIKER AS THE BUTLER WAS MASTERFULLY DONE.
I GIVE THIS MOVIE AND THE OTHER TWO MOVIES MENTIONED 10 OUT OF 10.
MAKE SURE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN SAY OLDER THAN 8, SEE THIS MOVIE. ALL THREE MOVIES I'VE MENTIONED ABOVE SHOULD BE IN YOUR HOME MOVIE LIBRARY.
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THE MOVIE "THE EAGLE." DONE IN 2010 BY ALLIANCE FILMS, STARING CHANNING TATUM AND JAMIE BELL, IS ANOTHER FINE MOVIE FOR TEENAGERS AND ADULTS.
TOO MANY HAVE BEEN TAUGHT THE ROMAN ARMIES WERE INVINCIBLE, KINDA LIKE FROM ANOTHER FAR ADVANCED TO US, PLANET.
NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. THOUGH THEY HAD A LARGER EMPIRE THAN BABYLON, PERSIA, AND GREECE; THOUGH THEY WERE AS "IRON" IN BIBLE PROPHECY; THEY WERE NOT INVINCIBLE. WHEN THEY WENT TO BRITAIN IN 55/56 B.C. THEY WERE MET BY A MIGHTY BRITON WAR MACHINE THAT INCLUDED HORSE AND CHARIOT. AFTER A PEACE ARRANGEMENT JULIAS CAESAR WAS CONTENT TO RETURN TO EUROPE AND ABANDON THE IDEA OF TRYING TO CONQUER THE BRITISH ISLES.
ROME DID NOT ATTEMPT ENTERING BRITAIN AGAIN UNTIL ABOUT 45 A.D. THE ROMAN ARMIES WERE OFTEN DEFEATED BY THE GREAT BRITISH CARADOC [KNOWN ALSO AS CARACTACUS] AND BY THE WARRIOR QUEEN BOADICEA.
AT BEST THE ROMANS "OCCUPIED" PARTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES [NEVER FULLY CONQUERING THEM]. IN 120 A.D. A ROMAN ARMY OF 5,000 MEN WENT TO CONQUER THE NORTH OF BRITAIN, NOW CALLED SCOTLAND, THE ENTIRE ARMY TO A MAN WAS NEVER HEARD OF AGAIN, AND THEIR EAGLE STANDARD WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN. THE ROMAN GENERAL HADRIAN AND ROME, WERE SO EMBARRASSED BY THIS DEFEAT, THEY BUILT WHAT BECAME KNOWN AS "HADRIAN'S WALL" - A STONE WALL ACROSS THE ENTIRE NORTH OF ENGLAND TO BLOCK OUT THE PICTS AND SCOTS FROM COMING SOUTH TO DO MORE DAMAGE TO ROMAN ARMIES.
THE ROMAN HISTORIAN TACITUS WROTE ABOUT THE WARS THAT ROME HAD WITH CARADOC, BOADICEA, AND A LEADER OF THE PICTS AND SCOTS. PROBABLY ONLY SOME OF THE LARGE LIBRARIES OF THE LARGE CITIES IN NORTH AMERICA, WILL STILL HAVE THE WRITINGS OF TACITUS. BACK IN THE 1960s THE LOCAL LIBRARY OF THE SMALL TOWN I WAS LIVING IN, HAD THE HISTORY WRITINGS OF TACITUS, AND I READ THEM. NOW EVEN THE 1.2 MILLION CITY OF CALGARY DOES NOT HAVE TACITUS HISTORY WRITINGS.
"THE EARGLE" MOVIE IS A FICTITIOUS TALE FOR THE MOST PART AND THEY HAD TO "INVENT" WHAT THE FAR NORTH SEA PEOPLE MAY HAVE BEEN LIKE, BUT THE FACT OF TRUTH IS HADIAN'S WALL, WITH A PEOPLE NORTH OF IT [IN WHAT WE KNOW TODAY AS SCOTLAND] WERE A WARING PEOPLE YOU DID NOT WANT TO ENCOUNTER, NOT EVEN THE MIGHTY IRON ARMIES OF ROME.
TO GAIN A CERTAIN PERSPECTIVE OF ROMAN/BRITISH HISTORY AROUND 120 PLUS A.D. THIS IS A FINE MOVIE, AS SAID, FOR TEENS AND ADULTS.
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