Monday, November 29, 2010

BURN! 1969



It is a film that is based around the events that happened in Guadeloupe. Essentially Marlon Brando an American actor stars in a film that portrays the abuses of colonial powers, producing a beautiful crituque of how to supress a revolution and subjugate colored people. I was unaware that Marlon Brando, our fourth greatest male actor of all american film according to Time Magizine, was politically oriented. He refused to recieve an Oscar for his performance in The Godfather and instead had a native american take the stage and address the issues surrounding the wounded knee standoff and native american's role in the film industry.

"Homosexuality is so much in fashion it no longer makes news. Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. I have never paid much attention to what people think about me. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing." Marlon Brando

"Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of—of people who are suffering. Because they've exploited—we have seen the—we have seen the Nigger and Greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the Kike. Because they knew perfectly well, that that is where you draw the wagons around." Larry King, who is Jewish, replied, "When you say—when you say something like that you are playing right in, though, to anti-Semitic people who say the Jews are—" at which point Brando interrupted. "No, no, because I will be the first one who will appraise the Jews honestly and say 'Thank God for the Jews.'" In 1946, Brando showed his dedication to the Jewish desire for a homeland by performing in Ben Hecht's Zionist play "A Flag is Born".

2 comments:

Corbin said...

ummm...what is this about?

dantebgarcia said...

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