Typical PC/feminist/multicult i BBC crap?
Is this the typical PC/feminist/multiculti crap the BBC has been churning out for the last 10 years, or did they at least try in this case to be faithful to the book and period?
shareJust watched the trailer. Was the nurse in the novel black? I didn't think so. See, that's the kind of crap I'm talking about. See the movies the BBC did of the Philip Pullman books for some particularly egregious examples of this type of PC propaganda.
Besides that, the movie looks awful, in a hackneyed sort of way. I think I'll pass.
The BBC used to make some great shows and movies but anything that says "BBC" that's come out since 2000 I'm automatically going to pass on from now on. I can't believe British taxpayers aren't outraged at the garbage their money is being spent on these days.
I still can't believe there's a country with a channel that people are forced to pay for against their will and have no say in how it's run (maybe democraticlly elected board members?). It seems outrage does exist, but no one cares? I like some of the BBCs programming but I'm not British so I don't have any clue what it was like in it's "glory days".
Anyway you didn't miss much. It is very slow and I'm guessing like most, the book is better than the film.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all
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I didn't say anything about racism. Next time hit reply to the correct person.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all
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"As if it would be impossible for a nurse in England to be black. Are you flippin out of your minds?"
The black population of Britain in the 1940s was minute (around 10-20,000 as far as I can determine), so the odds of a nurse being black are close to zero. Not impossible, but the BBC clearly chose to make the nurse black even though a nurse in the real world would almost certainly have been white.
Or, perhaps more likely, they were just clueless about British history.
"Blacks were not seen and treated as second-class citizens and they could actually participate in jobs and recreations that the rest of the populace did."
While that's true, it's as much because the population was so small that the first black person many Britons ever saw was an American GI as it is due to some mythical 'tolerance'. There was plenty of racism once black people started moving to Britain in large numbers after WWII.
I still can't believe there's a country with a channel that people are forced to pay for against their will and have no say in how it's run (maybe democraticlly elected board members?). It seems outrage does exist, but no one cares? I like some of the BBCs programming but I'm not British so I don't have any clue what it was like in it's "glory days".
People do have a say; they vote by switching channels and watching something else and this to an extent influences what programme makers subsequently commission (same as any subscription network/channel eg HBO). As a public broadcaster it is the BBC's remit to make programmes that appeal to the population across the board, meeting both minority and mainstream tastes and not just to chase ratings, however as part of their funding comes from BBC Worldwide (a commercial organisation) it does have the right to commision as it choses. The licence fee is a tax on a households television set(s) and you need one to watch all channels (not just the non-comercial BBC ones), it funds BBC radio an online servives, as well as it's multitude of television channels which for £145 a year is a damn good deal.
pablo-taylor: The BBC is biased PC leftist crap financed through coercion. It's mad in this day and age a biased media product is being financed through coercion. It's evil that thousands of people (more than 3000 a week, often vulnerable people like unemployed, single mothers and disabled) have their privacy invaded and are bullied and intimated by Capita fascists for not paying the TV Tax (it is not a licence fee, it's a regressive tax) and for this receive a fine and criminal record whether they watch the BBC or not. "The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?" Paxman. To use a leftist term, shame on you!
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