if you have,what did you think to the james brown gig?
would two white kids have been there?
You see, in the end, our truest opinions are not the ones we have never changed...
Not me exactly but I am Jewish and my father told me he once took his girlfriend to a James Brown concert as they were the only white people there lol.
shareI haven't lived it, but my mom has. We come from Kansas City and there used to be different concert halls for blacks and for whites and one integrated one, but my mom said all the kids used to go to that hall for concerts anyway so the segregated ones ended up closing down! She said the music pretty much united the kids where she grew up. So, to us, that scene was very beleivable.
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interesting
thanx
You see, in the end, our truest opinions are not the ones we have never changed...
No, I haven't lived this and neither has anyone I know. That's because the film was one of those where the plot is uncertain and the ending slushy and crap. The weirdest bit for me was the whole Nazi outfit - it was not ironic, just strange. A lot of the meaning behind this film was lost on me, but that's cos I only like good films.
shareand whats your definition of a good film...rocky? or something else that is completely void of anything that has to relate with real life, cause anyone with real taste knows that this film had a lot of wonderful aspects. get a clue....mmkkk pumpkin
tonks54, I know you wrote this post four years ago, but wtf? You said, <<and whats your definition of a good film...rocky? or something else that is completely void of anything that has to relate with real life, cause anyone with real taste knows that this film had a lot of wonderful aspects. get a clue....mmkkk pumpkin>>
Look, tonks54, I really like Liberty Heights. It wasn't perfect, the casting was often strange, parts of the story totally unbelievable, but it had some really value.
But Rocky? Are you trying -- yes, you are trying to say that Rocky <<is completely void of anything that has to relate with real life,>>
Yeah -- because no one has ever been or even felt totally down and had to struggle just to go the distance -- forget "winning," just to go the distance. Yeah, NO ONE in real life ever had to go through anything like that.
Watch Rocky again -- if you ever watched it in the first place. It's a masterpiece. You are hearing this from someone who liked Liberty Heights and who loves Adrian Brody and David Krumholtz.
Has anyone lived this? I'm sorry, I'm still trying to get over the kidnapping thing. This movie didn't seem real to me.
shareHi There,
I haven't lived this being that I am 18 but my grandmother grew up in the area(Springdale Avenue) and still lives there today. Her parents bought the house in the 50's so I can imagine that she would know.
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Dear Phil,
I grew up in Kansas City during this time. And as a matter of fact, a musician friend of mine attended a James Brown concert back in the early sixties, along with two other white friends. A kindly usher looked after them and after the show a policeman in the lobby offered to drive them home. He was in hot water with his parents as he had attended the concert on a school night and without telling them where he was going.
I graduated from high school in 1956 (one year after the kids in the movie). I am a white protestant who went to school with Jewish kids and blacks (called negroes then). I was not aware of prejudice against the Jewish kids. As a matter of fact, the ones I knew came from wealthy families. I belonged to clubs that had some black kids, but not many. My parents did not approve of me socializing with black kids. I had a black friend whose father was a college professor. I went to a party at her house and incurred the wrath of my father (a factory worker).
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A lot of the scenes in this movie are based on events that happened to Barry Levinson or people he grew up with. This includes the James Brown concert and the Hitler costume. I don't think he ever got kidnapped, though.
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