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09-11-04, 08:47 PM
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Originally posted by RyoHazuki
http://www.refstar.com/s&e/
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09-13-04, 04:24 PM
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This is interesting, it's his review for Night of the Living Dead from 1968. The two things that stand out the most:
1) Referring to Ben as 'the Negro' ten or tweleve times
This is interesting, it's his review for Night of the Living Dead from 1968. The two things that stand out the most:
1) Referring to Ben as 'the Negro' ten or tweleve times
09-14-04, 02:23 AM
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Originally posted by Mordred
While I wasn't alive at the time, it's my understanding that during the 50s and 60s, Negro was the accepted term for refering to an African American. Calling someone "black" would be considered taboo, much like calling someone a "negro" would be today. I don't know when this switched but it seems to be a fact that few people my age are aware of. I'm also not sure if these terms were used differently regionally.
While I wasn't alive at the time, it's my understanding that during the 50s and 60s, Negro was the accepted term for refering to an African American. Calling someone "black" would be considered taboo, much like calling someone a "negro" would be today. I don't know when this switched but it seems to be a fact that few people my age are aware of. I'm also not sure if these terms were used differently regionally.
I wasn't taking a dig at Ebert. I was just being charmed at the notion of how things change.
Originally posted by Mordred
Calling someone "black" would be considered taboo, much like calling someone a "negro" would be today....
I'm also not sure if these terms were used differently regionally.
Calling someone "black" would be considered taboo, much like calling someone a "negro" would be today....
I'm also not sure if these terms were used differently regionally.
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09-14-04, 10:39 AM
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Originally posted by marty888 One of the things I've learned after reading Ebert for many years is that I often have a better opinion of many movies that he pans - I don't always agree with his negative reviews. On the other hand, if he gives a movie a good review, 99 times out of 100 I'll it's something I like.
Anyway, this is great. I admire and enjoy Ebert's writing so this is a small-scale dream come true.
09-14-04, 12:41 PM
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Originally posted by Mordred
While I wasn't alive at the time, it's my understanding that during the 50s and 60s, Negro was the accepted term for refering to an African American. Calling someone "black" would be considered taboo, much like calling someone a "negro" would be today. I don't know when this switched but it seems to be a fact that few people my age are aware of. I'm also not sure if these terms were used differently regionally.
While I wasn't alive at the time, it's my understanding that during the 50s and 60s, Negro was the accepted term for refering to an African American. Calling someone "black" would be considered taboo, much like calling someone a "negro" would be today. I don't know when this switched but it seems to be a fact that few people my age are aware of. I'm also not sure if these terms were used differently regionally.
Bloom County had one strip that dealt with the whole "what do we call 'them'?" conundrum that so many white folk worry about. It ran through Negro, Colored People (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), etc.
I prefer 'darkie', but that's just me.
Found a transcript - at plays better in cartoon form. I tried to break it up into the proper formatting as I remember it.
Mom: That's the most adorable little colored girl playing outside.
Steve: "Colored"? You're saying "colored people" in 1988? You know better, Ma.
Mom: Then why the "National Association for Colored People? I don't think Negroes mind at all.
Steve: Don't say "Negroes," Ma! You can't say "Negroes"!
Mom: Can I say "United Negro College Fund"?
Steve: You are baiting me, Ma!
Dad: That's it. We're leaving.
Mom: Stay put, Reginald. "Mister Socially Sensitive"isn't finished shaming his parents into enlightenment.
Steve: Everybody just calm down. Let's agree to use the the New-Age term "People of Color."
Mom: People of Color.
Steve: People of Color.
Mom: Colored people.
Steve: NO!!
Dad: We're leaving.
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09-15-04, 10:35 AM
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I did a search for zero star movies. Back in the day, Ebert reviewed Behind the Green Door, Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones (not zero stars), and Calligula. I guess he got too big to review porn.
09-23-04, 04:40 PM
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Check out his review of A Clockwork Orange! Interesting, to be sure. This is perhaps the only case where I would boldly challenge both Ebert and Pauline Kael in debate.
09-23-04, 09:57 PM
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Originally posted by Nick Danger
I did a search for zero star movies. Back in the day, Ebert reviewed Behind the Green Door, Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones (not zero stars), and Calligula. I guess he got too big to review porn.
I did a search for zero star movies. Back in the day, Ebert reviewed Behind the Green Door, Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones (not zero stars), and Calligula. I guess he got too big to review porn.
09-24-04, 01:38 AM
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The one thing that really bums me out about the site is that the Movie Answer Man and Articles aren't as easy to search out as the movie reviews.
You can select 1973 and get all the reviews published that year, but you can't do that for anything else.
I'd really like to go back and read all the Answer Man's (since I only started reading them in 2000), but I had to sit there and click Next Page about a hundred times just to get to 1999.
You can select 1973 and get all the reviews published that year, but you can't do that for anything else.
I'd really like to go back and read all the Answer Man's (since I only started reading them in 2000), but I had to sit there and click Next Page about a hundred times just to get to 1999.
09-24-04, 03:40 PM
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The search function is a little too broad. For instance, I did a search for Clint Eastwood, and it returned every review that even mentioned his name, not just his movies.
