AMAZING battle sequences!!!
as well as most any other wide shot in this film.
shareYes, it looks quite magnificent, but it's hard to deny it's got a heavy undercurrent of racism, much more obvious here than in, for instance, The Bridge over the River Kwai. Not saying the racism destroys the film, but no film maker today would get to do this kind of showcase for the belief in British inborn supremacy.
At the audition I had to karaoke to "Smoke On The Water". I was 45. A very lonely experience.
Then again, if you make a film about people who were more or less rasist that takes place in a time when racism was accepted... then you have to make it pretty racist dont you.
Lamb! Innocent and delicious!
-Proud follower of the Black Goddess-
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Why should it matter if racism was accepted or not? Even if it wasn't, I prefer the movie try to be honest about what happened, right or wrong. Everywhere you look today morons are succeeding in rewriting history and it makes me sick. For example, how can you take away the confederate battle flag and pretend it never existed when thousands of people fought for it, right or wrong...... It's just plain insane to do things like that to history. The minute you lose faith in history's accuracy it falls flat and becomes worthless. BTW, I was born in NY. Just thought I would mention that before someone accuses me of being a crazed southerner living in the past.
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