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I do think it is important that that the movie showed the racism of the North and illustrate that the North was not all about equality for all. – Wesley Weeks | I do think it is important that that the movie showed the racism of the North and illustrate that the North was not all about equality for all. – Wesley Weeks | ||
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| + | I think the reason Glory did such a good job at portraying history accurately was due to the sources the filmmakers chose to use. The very opening of the movie stated that the events depicted in the movie were derived from Shaw's personal correspondence - a filmmaker using primary sources is very impressive. At the end of the movie, 2 other works were cited as sources for the film, which I assume to be monographs written by historians. For these reasons, perhaps this is why Glory is considerably more historically accurate than its Civil War counterpart, Gone with the Wind - a movie based on a historical romance novel. ~Juliann | ||
What is there to say about this one? It's a fantastic movie front to back. The story, characters, and treatment of the historical events are all, in my mind, perfectly accurate. The racism never seems overly exaggerated, nor undercut in its nature. The treatment of blacks both by whites and other blacks all seemed to be very true, preventing the filmmakers from turning the black characters into a minstrel show, and preventing the white characters from treating them too harshly. Honestly, when a movie gets it as "right" as Glory did, there's not much you can say that hasn't already been said. --Cash. | What is there to say about this one? It's a fantastic movie front to back. The story, characters, and treatment of the historical events are all, in my mind, perfectly accurate. The racism never seems overly exaggerated, nor undercut in its nature. The treatment of blacks both by whites and other blacks all seemed to be very true, preventing the filmmakers from turning the black characters into a minstrel show, and preventing the white characters from treating them too harshly. Honestly, when a movie gets it as "right" as Glory did, there's not much you can say that hasn't already been said. --Cash. | ||
