Bring on the buzz!
We all need to be makin’ lots-o-noise for this movie, which is now in theaters everywhere.
My family went opening night, and as hard has it is to hold back, I’ll wait to write a review until more of you have seen it. IT IS WORTH SEEING, even if you don’t like war flicks (not my favorite genre, either) (see it for all the reasons we already know and a bunch you haven’t thought of), and to see if you agree with Roger Ebert.
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I’m all for anything encouraging that lifts up positive black stories to the forefront of world culture and gets folks talking about these stories. Amazing that I can still truthfully say that in 2012.
And I don’t say this only because I’m a black, southern child of the Civil Rights Movement; with a father who served in the Philippines in WWII and returned “home” to the segregated south; who is telling her own under told story in the form of Peach Seed Monkey .
The Point Is ~ Vote with your movie dollars for the Tuskegee Airmen, real American action heroes. Let this be a portal into the meaning of the all-too-real deeper story of that era for our heroes and all black Americans ~ that of anger at the long arm of the Jim Crow situation back home.
I agree! I will go see this film after hearing George Lucas talk about it on the Daily Show recently. He said he was inspired to make it, in part, so that young men could know about these amazing heroes and perhaps see them as role models. Anyway, as soon as I get over this nasty cold I am going to see it!
Yes, do go see it. We went tonight. I’m holding off on writing a review until more folk have seen it. We can ALL write reviews, then discuss.
We are going to see it tomorrow…making it a family affair…especially w/our pilot son!
Great…please comment on blog with your review (without spoiling it for folk!) love to know what the pilot son thinks!
Not only are movies depicting black men as heroes rarely made, they are not well publicized, either. I hope this film has the broad appeal it should have, despite what Hollywood thinks. It is an important film! Thank you for bringing this film to the attention of your readers.
And thank YOU, Shimi, for commenting!
I watched on-line the older Lawrence Fishburn PBS version called The Tuskegee Airmen. Its a very different movie that is more biographical telling a very different story. Red Tails is more of a blockbuster action movie that is more about the air battles but my thought is why can’t we also tell that story ALSO. We don’t have only one story to tell in one way . . . both can inspire people to want to know more about the real people. Red Tails was more about the youth and swagger of these young fearless men between the ages of 17 and 25 wanting to prove themselves as men. In order to do the job they did they needed to be fearless and youth played a part in that and thats also an important story to tell about them.
In the PBS version my favorite moment was when they had to land their planes on a road and all the blacks on the chain gang looked in awe and amazement at black pilots like at that very moment it changed how they saw themselves. The movie began with three of them on a train: one from Iowa farmland, one from Harlem and one rich highly educated. They came from all walks of life and backgrounds but all dealt with the same race issues. So this was more about the race battle so there was more of a story line.
Another story to be told about them is the Tuskegee Airmen mutiny at Freeman Airfield.
We have many stories and many ways to tell them and at this point we still need to support them all.
Yes! I so agree. Love to hear what others have to say about this.
Meanwhile here’s more interesting reading on The Tuskegee Airmen: Red Tail Reborn.