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The film they are all watching in the nursing home...SPOILERS!

posted 10 years ago by Gabe1972
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Can you imagine what they must have felt like? I would have wanted to bury my head in the sand and never come out! Jon tried to take it in stride, talking about the context of the time the film was made, but he still must have felt completely embarrassed.

When I first saw the blackface being applied, I knew something was going to happen.

It was darkly humorous, but that alone shows how times have changed for the better.

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[–] wearemegatwins 10 years ago

I wouldn't have been embarrassed.
It was a silent film, they had different standards at the time.
Some people are just too sensitive.

[–] MycroftHolmes 10 years ago

The Jazz Singer is a pretty famous film.

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[–] Gabe1972 10 years ago

Sheesh! That shows you how much I know. I've heard of that film a gazillion times, but I didn't know that's what it was. LOL. Definitely a very famous film. I would still have been embarrassed, though.

The plural of mouse is mice. The plural of goose is geese. Why is the plural of moose not meese?

[–] MycroftHolmes 10 years ago

I thought it was a little silly to be shocked that people used to put on black face. They still show Holiday Inn every year at Christmas time which features it. White Christmas does it in a much toned down way and it's still a classic. It's like being shocked that slavery existed. But, then again, I've never watched The Jazz Singer in a room full of black people, either! Mammy!!!

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[–] Gabe1972 10 years ago

It's not shocking. I would still be embarrassed, though. I'm talking about the younger people, not the old folks watching the film.

Wouldn't you be a little embarrassed if you went to a nursing home that your parents or grandparents were, they were watching your father or grandfather's favorite film, and it turned out to be "The Birth of a Nation?" It wouldn't be shocking, because we know about the film, but it would still be embarrassing.

I know this is an extreme version of what I am talking about, but it still gives the gist of what I mean. To me, it would just be embarrassing, because remember, there were other young people there who were insulted by it. People who didn't grow up in that time. I'm not saying their father was a bigot, and I know the film was a product of it's time, but it would still be embarrassing to me. Maybe you wouldn't be embarrassed, but that's you. They certainly were, hence the original post.

The plural of mouse is mice. The plural of goose is geese. Why is the plural of moose not meese?

[–] MycroftHolmes 10 years ago

I'm 60, so I'm not shocked at much.

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