Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
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It is fun to try to imagine how this movie would have been written today. Far less time spent on the white denizens for one, who have a degree of interiority and nuance that doesn’t exist for the black characters, who exist mostly to be attacked and abused.
You know any movie starring Gene Hackman & Willem Dafoe is gonna be a god damn fire.
willem dafoe hot
We’re so lucky the FBI championed the civil rights movement and ended racism in the 70’s, imagine what we would have to deal today as a society if we hadn't overcome that shit.
at least half of the scenes in this movie follow one of these three templates
1. some white character actor with a southern accent going like "hey, listen here jackass, I am WHITE, I am from MISSISSIPPI, and down here in Mississippi we're all RACIST. we do things more racistly than you COMMIES up in the NORTH. that is our HERITAGE and you will RESPECT IT" for a good three minutes, regardless of who they are talking to or whether or not they were prompted
2. that same person going and committing some (well-shot!) hate crimes with their buddies in the middle of the night
3. Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe showing up at the site the morning after and going "well I think we know who's behind this"
farewell to Gene Hackman, one of the greatest of all time
He may a spidey villain
He may a horny sailorman
He may a psycho looking man
But Will Dafoe ain't no racist and hate the Klan
I know this is a very serious movie but Willem Dafoe is H O T
Hatred isn't something you're born with. It gets taught. You believe the hatred. You live it, you breathe it. You marry it.
“Hatred isn't something you're born with. It gets taught... At 7 years of age, you get told it enough times, you believe it. You believe the hatred. You live it... you breathe it. You marry it.”
Alan Parker’s 1988 film which was nominated for seven Academy Awards is another reminder of what a great career Gene Hackman had, although this time he got to share the spotlight with a pair of other wonderful performances from Willem Dafoe and s McDormand. The fact that Mississippi Burning isn’t even considered one of Hackman’s top ten most popular films just proves how many great films he’s made over the span of five decades (he retired from acting in 2004). Since the film was…
One of those movies that you have probably heard of if you're into watching or coming across movies about regular folks combating racism in the South. But I didn't know anything about it beyond the fact that Gene Hackman was in it; that includes Willem Dafoe.
And what else can I say? Some viewers may object, labeling the movie as belonging to the camp of those who use stereotypical bad guys to sway viewers to their side. One might also take a more cynical view and point out how, in a film meant to comment on the harassment, terrorism, and lynchings committed by the KKK, black people feel like they are being relegated to glorified extras, and how the FBI…
just what we need a movie about how much good the FBI has done for black people 😃
