lstormhammer Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 Hi, all. Thought I would start a thread. I just threw on the 1967 classic Guess who's coming to dinner and thought I might a: Provide a link, and b: tell people to check the movie out, if they haven't done so yet. --LSH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars Porsenna Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 And here I thought it was just Klingons... Damon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyrus Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 I love that movie. Sydney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, what could be better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unglef Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 Awesome flick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CripDyke Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 and STILL so relevant! Written and shown at a time when people were proposing federal constitutional amendments to limit just who could and who couldn't be married. Hmmmmm.... Not to even MENTION the complex and often negative feelings our culture still has about multi-racial marriages! Yeah, I saw this a few years ago as part of my research into radical marriages and popular responses to same (English Gov't vs. Quaker Marriages 400 years ago; Everybody in the UK vs. Irish Protestant-Catholic intermarriage for the last 300 yrs; US Gov'ts -colonial, state, and federal - vs. Multi-racial marriages; European Democractic movement vs. Royal Family Weddings 1760-1880; US & European Gov'ts + Eugenic Populists vs. Marriages including people w/ disabilities; US Federal Gov't and Midwestern states vs. Mormon marriages - both polygamous and not; not to mention modern queer same-gender marriages). Even tho' I have seen it before, it's something I should really see again. I love Sydney Poitier - too bad he was so often typecast, but after Paul Robeson he was the Re-forger of the pathway to acting jobs for African American men in this country... So it's not like he didn't accomplish a ton, I just wish we could have had a society that would have cast him in more roles that weren't 'written black'. And often written 'Tommish', unfortunately. This movie was a wonderful chance for him to make a statement with his most potent asset - his performance skills - against the injustices constantly affecting his life. Truly incredible to see both as a piece of culture, a piece of political theater, and as a piece of a Great Actor's career. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushido Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 And here I thought it was just Klingons... Damon. My thoughts exactly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.