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United Passions (2014)
Please leave your political agenda aside & appreciate the film for what it is!
Too many people writing a review here are just simply trolling to destroy the film & are allowing their biases & passions about FIFA to stand in the way of seeing a really good film.
Given that the film was financed by FIFA, I wasn't exactly expecting to get any objective story about FIFA anymore than I was expecting films like "Zero-Minus-Thirty", "American Sniper" & "Act of Valor" to objective about US military adventurism abroad. I saw those other 3 films and not only where they PENTAGON & US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROPAGANDA but they were not very good films in terms of acting, script cinematography or anything else.
Just like "1492 Conquest For Paradise" wasn't exactly the most historically accurate & objective film ever made by Christopher Columbus & his voyages in the Americas, this is not going to be a an objective film about FIFA.
But one thing it does have in common with "1492 Conquest For Paradise" is IT'S A GOOD FILM. If you just pay attention to film for what it is, as a film, and pay attention to the costumes, acting (great performances by 3 great all-stars_, directing, cinematography & everything else that people usually judge a film by -- it's a good film.
You time will not be wasted watching this women, you will learn a few things, and I'm pretty sure everyone is smart enough to pick-up propaganda when they see one, but the point is appreciating this film for what it is -- a good film.
Just pretend it's based on a fiction story for a couple of hours & believe me you will appreciate this film a lot more. Otherwise you passions & biases about FIFA will not allow you to see this film for what it is.
Good Film, great acting, great cinematography, great costumes, interesting takes on Football history & you will appreciate Tim Gerard & the Jurrasic Park Fellow.
It's worth to watch it -- Even if you have to use your Student ID to get a discount card or go during a matinée time so you don't have to full price, I'd say do it! Because the Film was too well made to simply dismissed because how some of us may feel about FIFA.
The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (2006)
Watered Down Insulting PC version!
Having a Promotional Homo Video Original Copy of Disney's 'Song Of The South' from 1995, and having read all of the books of Joel Chandler Harris, all I can say is this is JUNK.
This is totally computerized, Politically Correct, Feminist approved, National Association for the Advancement of "Cheesy" People approved-- yes my opinion of that organization, which unfairly and unjustly smeared the original Disney classic WITHOUT ANY OF ITS MEMBERS EVER ACTUALLY SEEING THE FILM IN ITS ENTIRETY.
And Yes I can say that about them because I am Black Myself. Father is a Black Man from Trinidad, Mother from Venezuela. Currently I live in Trinidad.
#1. As with almost anything Hollywood makes today, it's all about the Girls coming of Age, and let's just forget about Boys ever becoming of age.
#2. The fact that the 'Gullah' accent or the Historical Southern African-American dialect is absent from the Characters, which is a BIG BIG dis-service and injustice to both Harris' books and the Disney Classic makes it BORING & LAME. Because with the accent, the stories LOSE A HUGE PART OF THEIR ESSENCE. And Artistically speaking, Animated Characters are much much more fun and more interesting to watch when they speak with an accent.
It was like having the stories TRANSLATED from Gullah to Corporate North American English, and as with anything else that gets translated, once translated it loses lots of the essence that comes from being spoken in the Original Language.
In My Opinion it's much more worth you while to go to www.songofthesouth.net and look at the ways in which you can take action to urge Disney to re-release the original Song Of The South.
Very Boring, Very Awful, and completely watered down and soul-less version of the Books and the Original Disney classic.
Song of the South (1946)
Please Get Your Facts Correct Before Commenting!
It is an All-Too-American thing for people to just run their mouths and say anything & everything & pretend they know everything when in fact they never even are in a position to write an informed comment about something. Too all of you people who saying this film CONTAINS SLAVERY, even those of you who are writing positive reviews, please answer the following questions for you: (1)How on earth is it 95% of people on this fictitious plantation on this fantasy children's films are Black, and the only white folks on the plantation are 3 women and 3 children? One is an elderly woman I night add, and over at least 100 black folks! If it did "CONTAIN SLAVERY" like some of you think it does, it would make sense to have some Strong White guys with a whip walking around watching everyone don't ya think? (2)Why did Uncle Remus get up and leave the plantation and no one stopped him? The Fact is, just like Joel Chandler Harris' book "Uncle Remus: His Songs & Saying: Folklore of the Ols Planation" written in 1880, THE STORY TAKES PLACE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, SO NONE OF THE BLACK CHARACTERS IN THIS FILM ARE SLAVES, but share-croppers & domestic-helpers. PLEASE GET THAT CORRECT! I'm not gonna spoil anything else about this film other than to say this is a very very culturally historic film for the following reasons:
(1) African-American folklore was brought to the silver screen and presented as American- Folklore.
(2) The Hero of this Plantation film set during the reconstructions era IS A BLACK MAN, AND THE NORMAL SMART FOLKS ARE BLACK FOLKS IN THE FILM.
(3) It was a racially integrated film, were one of the protagonist of the film, little Johnny two best friends are Uncle Remus, and Toby.
(4) Live actions animation
(5) The voices of African-American actors being used for cartoon characters give the animation scenes an ALL-BLACK experience. And The Gullah accents really gives it essence, unique culturally & remains loyal to exactly how Mr. Handler Harris himself heard stories being told to him.
(6) The Film, if you can just put your personal agenda's aside for one second, and just look at the film for what it was -- you'll have no choice but to come to this conclusion that African-Americans ARE THE SOUTH, AND THE SOUTH IS African-Americans culturally in every sense possible. African Americans REALLY DID IT ALL, THEY DID IT ALL, and everything is culturally rich about the South, is because of African-Americans.
(7) The First Two African Americans to win an Academy Award were playing in this film opposite of each other.
(8) Disney was so outraged at the racism that existed within the Academy Of Arts & Sciences at the time, that they didn't even nominate James Basket for an Oscar for his role as Ucle Remus, that HE USED THE POWER & MIGHT OF HIS COMPANY & LOBBIED VERY HARD TO MAKE SURE JAMES BASKET GETS AN Oscar FOR HIS PORTRAYAL OF UNCLE REMUS WHICH HAPPENS IN 1948, James Basket receives an Oscar for playing Uncle Remus in Song Of the South.
I hope Diseny takes the advice of their African-American Legend Animator Flyod Norman and not only releases this film on DVD-Blu-Ray, but I think they need to do a re-make with Bill Cosby playing Uncle Remus while he is still alive.