What dramatic movies have been historically accurate?

[ancianita]

93. Thank you. Well said. As a former teacher of film studies, I also see that if DuVernay is pretty new

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her vision gains directorial knowledge and support from a more experienced cast and crew (whether old, white, black or female or Oprah) in making this film.

This might be a stretch, but I daresay Common and Legend join her in getting helpful recognition from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for liberal and market values: in order to market this movie and its producers to worldwide distributors and audiences, who themselves need to see the American past and present take on race, women's equality and the importance of liberal vs. conservative politics. We in the West are in competition with other world views, and I think the current attention this film gets is intended to promote the film arts' communications about inclusion and peaceful politics.

Sure, Oprah cries during the awards, and not as a business woman, but because she and I totally agree with you about the double jeopardy of intersectionality that black women artists suffer, when they are in a distinctly powerful place to see black life's fullness and make it accessible to the younger, larger world. No one gets to where black film makers are without enduring and transcending a lot of personal and systemic-induced pain.

Alexander Pope's "Essay On Criticism," laid out fair criticism rules, one of which was that a major flaw of criticism in his day was to fault the whole of a work for a fault of a part; in this case, historic details important to whites and males. I think his standard applies here.

Not at my best today, so please be gentle.