First Time Watching *MISSISSIPPI BURNING (1988)*

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A very heavy movie with some very powerful shots
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0:00 - Intro
1:26 - Reaction
35:36 - Review

[@jasonrogers5061]

More people need to react to this film. It's a great film that is so powerful and it shouldn't ever be forgotten

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

Agreed, it's a masterpiece

[@brandonflorida1092]

I've recommended this movie to reactors over and over for years in comments and never had one try it.

[@isabelsilva62023]

@brandonflorida1092 Same here, it would be so important especially for the younger americans to see this movie but they never heard the title and do not care. Still, it is their loss entirely.

[@brandonflorida1092]

@@isabelsilva62023 Maybe they think we're lying. For about two years I fruitlessly begged reactors to do Alfred Hitchcock movies and was utterly ignored. Now they're common. Same for the Sergio Leone "Dollars" trilogy. Same for "The Pink Panther," which a few reactors have only recently begin doing. One I've been begging and begging for for years with absolutely zero luck is the original "The Thing" from 1951.

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

Yeah I noticed how most people haven't even seen this movie yet

[@adriennerobinson8984]

This is a fictionalized version of true events of three civil rights workers who were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964. FBI agents really did find their remains which led to arrests but only seven of the 18 defendants were found guilty in 1967 but not of murder but of a federal crime of violating their civil rights and were sentenced in 1970 but served no more than six years in prison.

[@rabbitandcrow]

Absolutely great one by Alan Parker. He was one of the top directors of the 1980s - Angel Heart, Midnight Express, The Wall, Birdy, Fame, so many excellent movies and always with a slightly dark edge. And I'd completely forgotten Frances McDormannd was in this movie!

[@robertocarbonvarela6387]

This masterpiece should've won the Oscar for best picture that year. And what a great cast! Everyone is AWESOME in this picture, with a special mention for all the "supporting actors": Brad Douriff, Gailard Sartain (the Sheriff), Michael Rooker... and, of course Dafoe and Hackman in the role of his life.

[@firebird7479]

Not Popeye Doyle?

[@robertocarbonvarela6387]

​@@firebird7479 Needless to say that Hackman was incredible in the legendary "The French Connection", a film that I love... But I admit that "Mississippi Burning" will always be a personal favorite of mine, and Hackman couldn't be more charismatic in it.

[@firebird7479]

@@robertocarbonvarela6387 I love it too. As I said in an earlier comment, Mississippi Burning is one of those films that, when it is on, I stop to watch it.

[@robertocarbonvarela6387]

​@@firebird7479 Same here. I never get tired of whatching it over and over again... And I've already whatched it countless times since we rented it for the first time in a video store in 1989...

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

I noticed how most the key characters were portrayed by well known actors

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks, Oliver! 🔥 Cheers to writer Chris Gerolmo and director Alan Parker. 🔸 I grew up in Louisiana, 15 minutes from the Mississippi border. Many of those ignorant and cruel attitudes still persist, even 'til this day. It's one of the main reasons I moved to Chicago. But I do hope it's fading away... for all our sakes. Compassion and unity are essential to move forward.

[@MacGuffinExMachina]

Isn't that around Stennis? Wish it was still free to go there. What's funny is a lot of the rural people (not all. One of my friends lives in a small town in Livingston and is nonbinary) will complain about black people in the cities or even my town (Hammond) but they use our stores, our hospitals, etc. They wouldn't survive without the more black populated cities and towns.

[@auntvesuvi3872]

@@MacGuffinExMachina For sure, there are plenty of cool and open-minded people down there... they're just gerrymandered out of power. 😉 I've heard of Livingston, I've been through Hammond once or twice. Most of my people are in St. Francisville. Last time I visited was like 12 years ago. I'll likely not be able to anymore. But keep bein' amazing, Mac, so I'll know there's a spark of hope. 🌅

[@LoDoFilmUnlimitedMedia]

Gene Hackman is BOSS in this film!

[@uso3107]

Thanks for reacting to this incredible film. Not enough people check out.

[@sdkelmaruecan2907]

And so far, nobody ever did Midnight Express

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

Movie's underrated as

[@MusicHandsAbrupt]

I’m originally from Mississippi, Jackson to be exact. This, unfortunately, is still pretty close to how it is, even in 2024. The cross burning scene at the motel was filmed at the Redwood Inn, it’s a small apartment complex next to a dirty movie shop. I lived there for years. This movie is exceptional. Gene Hackman really shines. Love your reviews.

[@rumbledumpthumpershaker6735]

If that's true why are all the race riots and problems in the northeast and west coast?

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

Thanks for the insight

[@firebird7479]

This, along with The Buddy Holly Story, Stalag 17 and The Great Escape, is one of those "stop what I'm doing, sit down and watch" when it comes on movies.

[@isabelsilva62023]

Mayor Tilman is R. Lee Ermey who played the drill instructor in "Full Metal Jacket". I am so glad to finally see somebody react to this movie, sadly nobody ever cares, thank you.

[@LisaCrouch3]

You saw the deputy in Dune 1984. He also ends up in Star Trek Voyager.

[@rabbitandcrow]

And One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Next and Lord of the Rings.

[@rxtsec1]

This was my grandpa's favorite movie

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

I see why

[@roxanewebster9003]

These crimes would have likely gotten much stiffer sentences on state charges, but at the time, local juries would not convict nor judges sentence appropriately, so such crimes had to be tried on federal charges with lower sentences.

[@GreggThompson-vb6mt]

Hey Ollie, if you think Alan Parker is a great director based on this movie, you've GOT to watch Midnight Express. It's an incredible pulse-pounding true story. By the way, I'm a Long Island native, as is the film's main character.

[@robertjewell9727]

I interviewed Alan Parker a long time ago in a galaxy far far away and was a great interview, thoughtful and responsive and later told me it was a really good interview. I was at University at the time hosting a college radio show and was very grateful for him participating in my academic chatteryy. MB is one of his best.

[@kylecs3586]

Wild. Just watched this for the first time myself last night and was going to recommend. Remarkable film. Glad you enjoyed too.

[@Traveltheme706]

Such a powerful movie i love it

[@dionysiacosmos]

I was born in Central Florida in 1959, and was in rural Georgia with my mother's relatives quite a lot, but I can only relay my personal experiences. The folks that hadn't started moving to the cities yet were every bit as illiterate and unsophisticated as everyone else. They weren't stupid just painfully uniformed. For instance, my mother was two when her father died in 1938. She had five older siblings, only one married, her oldest sister who was 19 years older than she was. In 1938 with four underage children she was unaware that she and they were eligible for Social Security survivor benefits. There were times my mother told me, when they would all pray every night for food to come the next day. And she also said she couldn't ever remember a day when they didn't wake up in the morning, at these times, when there was no food on the back porch. Often it included milk. She got an orange for Christmas once and was happy with it. Fortunately, the local produce like tomatoes and bell peppers were also good sources of vitamin C. Peanuts were plentiful, and kids went fishing when they could, they had laying hens for eggs, usually. But what she thought was her oldest memory was sitting in great big cardboard box at was at the end of a row or cotton, or tobacco, or corn or whatever was in season and needed to be gathered. That's where the mothers put the babies that were too young to be trusted to go and play. That's why field hollars, or work songs, were sometimes lullabies. ( Go to Sleep You Little Baby, the sirens ' song from Oh, Brother Where Art Thou! is one example. I myself know it in versions with three different tempos.) Segregation on that subsistence level was almost irrelevant. Schools might have been separate but few of these people ever went anyway. My mother went until the sixth grade and had the best formal education in her family. When she encountered the word negro she was so puzzled by it , she fought her usual shyness to ask her teacher about it. When that kind lady explained that it was the proper term for what she everyone else she knew said, she later told me, she never said the other word again. I certainly never heard her say anything else until the 1970s when Black Was Beautiful. She did have a reputation to maintain. One of her older brothers once said, though it's not politically correct, that after a day of working and playing around the fields, at quitting time, their parents had to hose all the kids off to see who was going home with which family. But even then, it wasn't static, because all the kids were at each other's houses all the time anyway. But it wasn't completely disconnected from the wider world. She said one time she was playing with a little negro baby and when she kissed the baby her mother slapped her. She didn't know why, but if Momer said don't do, they didn't do it. It was a long time before she realized her mother was trying to protect her. If the wrong " person" saw her doing that the consequences could have been very bad. Once when she was 12 some brave KKK horsemen chased her and a couple of her friends down the road aways. Rich men. They owned horses. One of the reasons the South has such a bad reputation is because of one of its best traits. Any Southerners you may see on TV or elsewhere, who are loud and angry or hateful were not raised right. Anger, hatred, and judgement are all sins. Even saying that someone wasn't raised right was slipping into dangerous territory. Not to mention it was bad manners. The only reason I can explain it freely is I'm a suburbanite and an atheist, so all of the old prohibitions and superstitions don't apply to my generation.

[@briez9648]

My dad was 10 in 1964 and he's about to turn 70 this year. Yet somehow ppl keep saying it was so long ago.

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

Wow

[@eggsntaters5144]

"Judge not lest you be judged", so simple. yet so ignored.

[@georgekappos3222]

We watched this in high school

[@Alisha1686]

This was such a powerful movie. Can't wait to see what you thought about it

[@johnstocker9155]

The sheriff's deputy was grima wormtongue in the lord of the rings. He was also in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's nest with Jack Nicholson. He played Billy Bibbitt.

[@jeffm4730]

And Charles Lee Ray/Chucky from Child's Play!

[@Divamarja_CA]

He played the drunken “doctor” in Deadwood too. Fact check me, please! But he was wonderful in that show.

[@sitebstudios]

A magnificent film! Great reaction!

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

Agreed

[@mattlovell4213]

1:36 I was like why do they have an empire strikes back sign above the water fountains

[@damianlatimer2290]

Can you review Fast Times At Ridgemont High?

[@Cbcw76]

Superior Gene Hackman films: THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1 at least; 2 then?)... THE CONVERSATION - seems like a spy thriller but it's a murder mystery. SCARECROW (wtih Al Pacino) - sort of a buddy film. Sort of.

[@tomfowler381]

I was a teenager when this happened. Sadly, I remember these attitudes. And they weren’t isolated to the South. The Grand Dragon of the KKK once lived in Indiana. Six miles north of my home.

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

Mississippi?

[@Renegade2786]

31:21 - 31:27 Oh crap, John Kramer. Don't think that guy is ready to *play a game*

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

That one time he ain't playing

[@BigGator5]

"Just don't lose sight of whose rights are being violated!" "Don't put me on your perch, Mr. Ward." "Don't drag me into your gutter, Mr. Anderson!" "These people are crawling out of the SEWER, MR. WARD! Maybe the gutter's where we outta be!" Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Kevin Dunn. COINTELPRO Fact: The methods used by the FBI later in the film to fight the Mississippi White Knights Of The KKK were part of the infamous Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) under J. Edgar Hoover, which started in 1956 and ended in 1971. Extra Extra Fact: According to Stephen Tobolowsky in Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party (2005), many of the extras in his speech scene were actual members of the Ku Klux Klan, and used their membership cards as ID. This is particularly ironic, as Tobolowsky is Jewish in real life. Historical Fact: The film is inspired by the murder of voting rights activists James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman by the Ku Klux Klan. The film was very controversial when it was released. Though fictional, it was based on an actual case. Some critics felt too many facts from the real-life case were distorted or left out. Casting Notes Fact: R. Lee Ermey, Brad Dourif, and Stephen Tobolowsky also appear in Murder In The First (1995), another film loosely based on a true story. This was Tobin Bell's first credited role. Gene Hackman decided that he would no longer make violent films after seeing a brief, violent clip of his performance in this film (taken out of context, in his eyes) at the 1989 Oscars. That stance prevented him from accepting a job as director of The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) and almost cost him the Sheriff role in Unforgiven (1992), which he reluctantly accepted after Clint Eastwood convinced him. That role that earned great acclaim, and his second Oscar.

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

The dialogue was well thought out

[@russellward4624]

"I've heard about grits" lol

[@frommymind4639]

Not an easy film to react to. Bravo to you for going in on this one.

[@firebird7479]

If you like Gene Hackman here, you'll love him as Popeye Doyle in "The French Connection".

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

What kind of character does he portray?

[@firebird7479]

@@Kenny-ep2nf He's the lead. NYC cop trying to break up a drug ring. Fantastic movie.

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

@@firebird7479 I think I've seen that movie before actually, now that you mention it.

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

W reaction man

[@djjackie1900]

If you think this movie is something. Check out Birth of a Nation (2016). Not for the faint of heart.

[@spinin1251]

Another cool reaction to a movie not many are reacting to. Keep it up. And even if you don't, keep checking out movies like this one on your own. I will make a recommendation to a really really great horror/thriller for you to check out. It's called Green Room (2015). Imagine Panic Room, but a lot more real, terrifying, and deadly where a rock band becomes trapped in a club after hours by a group of Neo-Nazis that own it. It's full of chilling moments and developments.

[@SilentBob731]

An excellent and important film, especially since certain elements of the population (cough, cough, conservatives, cough) seem bent on bringing back their "good old days".

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

lol

[@Cindrbell]

Nice pick

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

Agreed

[@thor-cj9dh]

If you liked this movie you should check out "Murder in Coweta County " It stars Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith.

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

Is it that similar?

[@rumbledumpthumpershaker6735]

Based on a true story. But it's more based on the director's and writer's egos.

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

You're not wrong here bud

[@f.n.schlub2269]

so you've decided to learn some history ...

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

History lesson of the day aye

[@user-cf3xp9kn8o]

Such a great movie. I'm amazed how people are screaming about it being woke since it makes the Klan look bad.

[@Renegade2786]

17:08 - 17:14 She's basically describing her own people as the moors (black Muslim) taught them how to bathe when they rule Europe for several centuries as they feared the water.

[@GuiltFreeWhiteMan]

You really don't know what was going on just this Jew made Hollyweird flick.

[@TrentOGuin22489]

I enjoy the one of my favorites and honestly I usually like your reviews but I feel like you don't know that this was something real that happened well based on true events and you need to kind of take it a little more seriously

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

yeah last time I saw this movie was like 2-3 months ago

[@reaper7264]

Can't watch the Truman show. Jim Cary is in it so it's horrible.

[@SilentBob731]

8:04 "This racism and religion really fuels everything". Son, you are wise beyond your years. 👍🥃 12:44 Hey look, old-timey MAGAts. 13:52 Just look over your shoulder. 😉😁 17:45 This guy sounds like a dozen current Republicans I can think of immediately (and a lot more if I really think about it, which I don't care to). 24:18 The U.S. is still full of judges like this, and if Trump "wins" again, it'll only get worse.

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

FR

[@msmith5121]

Just started this and you are talking over every scene...why? Moving on as this is very unfortunate.

[@Kenny-ep2nf]

He's making some good points though