Directed by Alan Parker
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.
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.
You know any movie starring Gene Hackman & Willem Dafoe is gonna be a god damn fire.
willem dafoe hot
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"
"Hatred isn't something you're born with. It gets taught. You believe the hatred. You live it, you breathe it. You marry it"
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
Gene Hackman really hit the dick twist on a KKK member, iconic
I know this is a very serious movie but Willem Dafoe is H O T
There's a scene where a black man is giving a speech during a funeral. This is one of the only moments of the film in which a black person gets to express his anger. The speech is riveting, but instead of lingering on this man's face, letting the camera draw you in to feel his anger with him, the speech instead plays over mourners walking and the FBI agents shaking hands. In my opinion, this is misplaced direction, aptle only for a film told from the wrong perspective.
Don't get me wrong, it's in no way a bad film. Alan Parker is great at creating an atmosphere, and it's that atmosphere that draws you in to Mississippi Burning. There's stuff…
just what we need a movie about how much good the FBI has done for black people 😃
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…
