01-12-2008, 06:15 AM
Wiley college in Texas is hot for the debating. They'll debate anyone anywhere. What they would really like is to debate some of those white schools so they can show african americans are just as intelligent as the whites. It's set in 1936 so relations between the races isn't all that good. The relations between the land owners isn't all that good either.
It's the academic version of Hoosiers. Small Wiley college struggles and succeeds to do battle in the big leagues.
It was an okay movie because it was weighted down with the cliches. But it had it's original moments, too. There's union organizers and union breakers. We have lynchings and racism and more racism. It's all pretty well worn ground ( or not) but I think there is some originality to it.
It's not all doom and gloom. There's the love triangle and the coming of age story. And it's got that big triumphant ending that you all see coming. You just don't see the big twist, which is pretty good.
My one caveat about the film is the origin of the verb to Lynch. The writers think it came from a Jamaican plantation owner who used to hang his rebellious slaves as a warning to the other slaves. We all know it comes from Ireland in Galway where an Irish Lord named Lynch hung his son in the castle window when no one else in the town would do it. Damn literary license.
It's the academic version of Hoosiers. Small Wiley college struggles and succeeds to do battle in the big leagues.
It was an okay movie because it was weighted down with the cliches. But it had it's original moments, too. There's union organizers and union breakers. We have lynchings and racism and more racism. It's all pretty well worn ground ( or not) but I think there is some originality to it.
It's not all doom and gloom. There's the love triangle and the coming of age story. And it's got that big triumphant ending that you all see coming. You just don't see the big twist, which is pretty good.
My one caveat about the film is the origin of the verb to Lynch. The writers think it came from a Jamaican plantation owner who used to hang his rebellious slaves as a warning to the other slaves. We all know it comes from Ireland in Galway where an Irish Lord named Lynch hung his son in the castle window when no one else in the town would do it. Damn literary license.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit