Mississippi Burning - Review

[@aaronhancock9864]

Mississippi native here. I grew up in Neshoba County where the 3 civil rights workers were murdered and got to watch them put Ed Killen (Edgar Ray Killen) in prison for those murders back in 05. My grandmother said it was nice to finally have some closure in the case after all those years. Sidenote: my grandfather ran a wrecker and body shop, and he was the one who went out to tow the vehicle out of the water IRL.

[@allanalopez1756]

I personally believe it's important to see it from point of view To see that not every white person was racist towards the black people To see that there was a few that fought for them Who are the very least fought beside them it's very important to notice in our history❤

[@allanalopez1756]

Thank you for responding to me so soon I'm actually impressed on the first one to reply To the commons give my best to your cats

[@JohnnyJohnsonHistory]

Of course. Thank you for the thoughtful comment. 🙏

[@HollywoodMarine0351]

Two great actors, Marine Corps Veterans… Gene Hackman, and R. Lee Ermey. I imagine these two on set talking about their time on active duty.

[@ThommyofThenn]

@@HollywoodMarine0351 Several times I've watched a movie and of course, i have to look up the technical and production info. It's also interesting to look at the cast and read about some of the actors themselves. It's remarkable how many times I've seen that people in the cast are Marines! Some truly great actors and directors share this attribute. I love that they can find success in the film world as much as they do. Makes me really proud as an American and that is something to value👌😀 thank you

[@sleuthentertainment5872]

If I have to think about a film with the most tense atmosphere is definitely this

[@ThommyofThenn]

Really sad how quickly we backslid and lost all the progress made. Especially when so much sacrifice was made

[@ShadowRulah]

The message went from bringing us together to reminding us we're different. It's easy to oppose hate but when you tell people they're inherently racist and inherently benefit from racist systems just engenders resentment.

[@Ralph105]

Australian observer here who watches US society and politics with interest. I firmly believe that USA has not backslid. Your awesome and amazing country came a long way from the the pre civil rights era. Now, your laws are colour blind. Everyone is now equal under your legal system as they should be. The ongoing arguments about race are about folks seeking equal outcomes, which is a horrendous distortion of what MLK spoke about. Stop taking about race, it is irrelevant. Concentrate on culture. There are generals, astronauts, fighter pilots and CEOs of Africans American heritage. Not to mention 2 term President Obama. They were not held back by their race. Bad culture is a far worse impediment to success. An that goes for 'white trash' culture as well

[@PJA264]

"All the progress?" Bruh there are African Americans in major prominence of all branches of government when 70 years ago many couldn't vote. Let's not forget how far we've come.

[@Godzilla00X]

Watched this in my history class Jr year of high school. You could hear a pin drop those few days. Incredible film especially the acting

[@kellychuang8373]

Also saw that was in a time when Cable TV was still cool and good watched it I think on STARZ or Encore as well as seen a documentary about the event it was based on really wild and also speaking of anti-Klan movies could look this other one Storm Warning (1951) stars Ronald Reagan before he became President or also tell JJ about this other movie I Am Cuba too.

[@yesterdays_problem]

The bus driver at the club I used to work at owned the exact 1952 Pontiac Chieftain that appears at the start of the film chasing the Civil Rights activists. Trust me, it was very eery to watch it drive around town after watching this film for school. I can't even begin to imagine the fear those boys experienced.

[@EnigmaticPenguin]

A timeless and important classic.

[@emerycandy326]

Mississippi Burning had an excellent cast and Gene Hackman had the best scenes and dialog. That said I had to agree with critics who said the black characters didn't have bigger parts considering they faced racially motivated violince for several years especially in the Jim Crow south.

[@idaho_girl]

Johnny, thanks for showcasing this movie. There are too many who would have us forget the reality if the fight for civil rights.

[@duglife2230]

Speaking of crime thrillers, L.A. Confidential is another good one that definitely warrants a review video at some point!

[@WV_Weasel]

One of my favorites!

[@idaho_girl]

Hi Mays! Thanks for the hard work! :-)

[@evancrum6811]

One of favorites and Gene Hackman is such a great actor

[@neilwilson5785]

306 pets already. You will be busy today. Great video as always.

[@N1ghtLancer]

give kitty all the pets!

[@kil-roy]

I agree 100% this is an excellent movie and a classic IMO, the only part that is weird to me is the awkward love element between Gene Hackman's and Francis Mcdormand's characters, just seemed forced and out of place to me.

[@kellychuang8373]

Also saw through that film back when Cable was still around and good and also there's documentaries about this as well said the FBI used the Mafia vs the KKK (Ku Klux Klan). Really was done in a documentary all about that and also another interesting movie you can look up any films Ronald Reagan was in before he became President including this 1 known as Storm Warning from 1951. Anyway really can check that out as well.

[@kellychuang8373]

Thanks and also Storm Warning (1951) was mentioned in the documentary Mafia vs KKK as well and also said it was made as an anti-Klan film also other films you can look into Yo Soy Cuba ( I Am Cuba) and also another from the maker of Battle of Algiers which you could also review if you have the time too Burn! (1969) or Queimada also stars Marlon Brando before you saw him in Godfather he looks very different in this film and yes he sounds different too anyway really check that out as well.

[@andrewstravels2096]

It’s an unfortunate situation, but nonetheless an excellent movie. I watched it a couple years ago and the suspense of the movie made me more and more locked into it.

[@deogiriyadav8399]

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[@JohnnyJohnsonHistory]

Within the next month 🙏

[@varovaro1967]

How do you overcome copyright?

[@JohnnyJohnsonHistory]

I don't always. Some studios receive the pay. But most grant me fair use as these are promotional videos.

[@aaronjohn6586]

Brilliant movie!

[@ultrajd]

I really think movies like this need to be required viewing especially in school. A lot of people don’t seem to realize just how tense things were for African-Americans and such during the civil rights movement especially in the southern United States. The sad part is even today in 2024, the southern United States in particular seems to be a lot more Racially divided than other states. Now this is always the case and it’s not the case everywhere obviously. But a friend of mine who has lived in both the southern US and the Midwest has discovered that if you’re a person of color or if you are a member of the alphabet community. or you just simply have a different Creed that you follow it’s entirely likely that you were going to be slightly less well received in the southern US than you are in parts of the northern US I remember several years ago, watching a documentary about a guy who threw the use of high levels of makeup and various other things, basically discovered firsthand and showed firsthand the extreme disparage. I guess you could see between how white people are treated and how people of color were treated. Basically he would go to one location, looking like himself, and with a hidden camera, he would be recorded on either interacting with somebody or something like that.he would then use special forms of makeup and other things to basically look like a black person and then go back to the same place and film. The results of that and the results were striking.

[@weltvonalex]

Awesome movie

[@andrewdewit4711]

Not an American, but have always greatly enjoyed this movie. Criticisms of its focus on the FBI overlook the morally instructive impact it had on white viewers such as yours truly back in the day.

[@paulkenneally789]

Great film, from a terrible time in American history and decades before “Till”,”Hidden Figures” and “Green Book” were released . All those films deal withi injustice and American obsession with race.

[@Dantheferret]

You have a cat?

[@Godzilla00X]

The cat actually is the one writing the scripts

[@Dantheferret]

@@Godzilla00X ha

[@worldofdoom995]

NAACP actually criticized the film since it made the black community look helpless and made the FBI look like crusaders for racial justice when they were just as likely to harass the civil rights movement.

[@kellychuang8373]

That's also something to note as well and I knew of 2 other films the NAACP criticized and those are the most notorious 1 Birth of a Nation (1915) also a film that the US President Woodrow Wilson at the time endorsed allegedly and another Disney's Song of the South. Anyway really have a look into that and also speaking of anti-Klan look this movie of 1951 Storm Warning also has Ronald Reagan in it before he became President and passed away in June 5 2004.

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[@FeintMotion]

can't believe they made the civil rights movement woke

[@padawanmage71]

Heck, some might think the Emancipation Proclamation as ‘woke’.

[@flarvin8945]

You know you have read too many KZbin comments, when you can't tell if a comment is satire or crazy sh!t someone actually believes. lol

[@Logotic]

The only problem I had with this movie is that Willem Dafoe was cast as a rather straight-edge good guy. That's not really his thing.

[@josh656]

Now the Civil Rights Division is ensuring not too many ineligible and illegal voters are purged from the rolls. Such contempt for the rule of law makes the rights fought for in this film considerably watered down.

[@ManDuderGuy]

They're gonna need a lot more 4am vans full of unprovenanced mail-in ballots this time 😮

[@michaelfrench3396]

That was horrible acting and dialogue in that clip that you showed. Nobody just stands there and takes it when somebody is shoving your face into a basin full of water or trying to slit your throat with a straight razor. You don't just stand there and look at them all wide-eyed and nobody that I have ever met has ever let me or anyone else physically throw them around a room without fighting back. Then we could talk about how my man delivered his lines. But yeah this movie sucks. It sucked when it came out in '88 I was alive for it. I was in 5th grade or 6th grade. And yeah there are far better civil rights movies than this one

[@michaelfrench3396]

And it's just another one of those civil rights movies quote" that are supposed to make white people feel good about themselves. There's a white protagonist and a bunch of other white folks trying to take care of the black guy, but they're the only couple good white people in the town. All the other white people are shitheads. So not only is he acting bad and what not. But the whole purpose of this movie is to make white people think that we did good racism doesn't exist anymore and we can go about our lives