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In Reply to: Sorry but... posted by clarkjohnsen on November 10, 2001 at 10:25:32:
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... IMHO, of course! ;^)Respectfully,
AuPh
Hi,
when I first saw the movie; I simply did not know what to make of it. It takes great liberties with the era the movie is set in. Then there are moments I find jarring, like the Klan's 'Busby Berkely' march, or a politican doing the 'steam heat' move. If the Klan ever got that organised, there'd be hell to pay.
But it stuck in my mind, I saw it a 2nd time; and is often the case with movies.....the flaws are overlooked, and what the movie does well continues to entertain. You didn't say what your reservations were; or how strongly they were held; but you might want to give a 2nd chance sometime.
... but the Klan WERE that organised back in the twenties and thirties. At it's strongest there were over a million members in the KKK (i.e., partly due to the influence of D.W. Griffith's revisionist silent epic "Birth of a Nation", which is also widely considered to be the first U.S. feature length film)! You are also correct that there was "hell to pay" from the Klan being that organized. In addition to over a hundred thousand white-sheeted klansmen marching in Washington in the early twenties there were many lynchings, beatings, vandalism and various other criminal activities. From what I've seen in newsreel footage, some of the Klan ritual isn't that far removed from what's parodied in the movie (i.e., except that the Klan takes theirs quite seriously), which makes the Coen's "Busby Berkley/Wizard of Oz" parody just that much funnier, IMHO.Anyway, I hope some of the naysayers will give this film another look. For those who haven't seen it yet, please do, because you can't imagine what you're missing. See it several times; it should grow on you, if you give it half a chance.
BTW, the only way to keep a hair-raising comedy down is with Dapper Dan! ;^)
Cheers,
AuPh
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