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(mandingo (1975) )

By RM
wednesday, november 27, 2024 at 1:42:00 p.m. est

Thanks for the response. I saw Mandingo maybe 40 years ago (and it’s not high on my list of movies to watch again!), and at the time I wasn’t as easily “offended” by liberal propaganda as I am now, so I just took it as slick entertainment. Now I see the liberal slant constantly in nearly everything (and I’m talking about older films and TV shows, I wouldn’t even watch anything contemporary!), and I have ZERO tolerance.

Even (supposedly) well-intentioned, well-made films like Edge of the City (1957), or The Well (1951), or Nothing but a Man (1964) are things I’d never see again. Objectively, I’d pick The Birth of a Nation (1915) as the greatest film of all time, for its artistry, its impact, and for depicting blacks honestly and nailing race as the primary issue and flaw in the emerging U.S.A., something that would eventually destroy it.

For what it’s worth, I’ve read that it was the dutch slaveholders who were the most abusive toward their charges, and the most despised.

-RM



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  1. AnonymousFriday, November 29, 2024 at 1:55:00 AM EST

    MANDINGO SPOOF:DAMNIGRO

    James Mason as Maxwell:Hello VanderGroet,I've got a new negro fighter who will win the slave boxing championship against your fighter.

    Slave owner,Dutch VanderGroet:Really,Maxwell.Let me see him--what's his name?

    Maxwell:Damnigro.

    Slave owner:Aren't they all?

    Maxwell:Come out here,Damnigro.

    (Ken Norton as Damnigro walks out)

    Slave owner:Hey,this is Mandingo--your unbeatable fighter. All you did was anagram his name--and added a letter--to try to fool me.

    Maxwell:Damnigro--I told him to grow a mustache--or shave his eyebrows--as a disguise.

    Director Fleischer:And CUT! Bad news everyone. The screenwriters just went on strike and that's all the script we have. See you when the strike's settled.

    End




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