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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am white, but I am so over people crying about Johnson and Selma.  Yes, Johnson was important, yes the movement needed him, but a lot people put their bodies on the line in a way he did not, that is what Selma is about. [b] No movie is 100 % accurate, as much as anything because their are different perspectives.[/b]

John Lewis tells his truth about 'Selma'
But now this movie is being weighed down with a responsibility it cannot possibly bear. It's portrayal of President Lyndon B. Johnson's role in the Selma marches has been called into question. And yet one two-hour movie cannot tell all the stories encompassed in three years of history — the true scope of the Selma campaign. It does not portray every element of my story, Bloody Sunday, or even the life of Martin Luther King Jr. We do not demand completeness of other historical dramas, so why is it required of this film?  http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-lewis-selma-movie-20150119-story.html#[/quote]Agree.  I actually disliked Selma and not because of the portrayal of Johnson but because it was pretty wooden and somewhat condescending to some of the activists (Lewis, for one, but he doesn't seem to feel that way).  But if you want a movie to reflect things only exactly the way they happened before you send school kids to learn something, you will never send a kid to the movies.  Even though I'm not crazy about Selma, it's a perfectly good activity for school kids because it does talk about a part of history that most kids don't get in school.[/quote]

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