Tribeca Film Gets ‘The Bang Bang Club’

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• Sounds like another movie about Africa and the African struggle through other than indigenous eyes. Movies made using this formula are little more than modern day Tarzan films. I’ll pass.

  Comment by Curtis Scoon — Wednesday November 17, 2010 @ 12:13pm PST  Reply to this post

• The type of people who pass judgement on movies before they have seen them shouldn’t watch this one.

  Comment by Zigo — Wednesday November 17, 2010 @ 3:24pm PST  Reply to this post

  • @Zigo

    I may not have seen this movie but if you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all. White man/woman enters foreign environment and after initial reluctance where he/she proves themselves they’re accepted and go on to champion the cause of the locals who seem to be unable to solve their own problems without the benevolent interloper. Now, I’m supposed to be impressed with the purported “risks” some paparazzi endured by CHOICE rather than the very real oppression he captured on film? I don’t think so.

    Movies like these are offensive on so many levels. I saw the last Samurai and wouldn’t you know it, Tom Cruise was the last Samurai. Saw Last King of “Scotland” and watched how an imaginary Scottish doctor stole the show from the very real Idi Amin, who was also a very compelling personality in the 20th century. Not compelling enough perhaps for people who love to include themselves even when it makes no sense. The nerve of people to pass off a “photo journalist” as a hero amid all the real heroes of that time period.The sheer arrogance and delusion are astounding.

    Say what you want about Mel Gibson but Apocalypto told an indigenous tale using indigenous actors who spoke the indigenous language. He’s a lot of things but he’s a REAL artist and not some pseudo-carpetbagger suffering from delusions of grandeur while looking for undeserved accolades and financial windfalls.

    Comment by Curtis Scoon — Thursday November 18, 2010 @ 4:26pm PST  Reply to this post

• I met Greg Marinovitch in SA 11 years ago. He took me on an insider’s tour of Soweto. Very interesting guy, although as a photojournalist you definitely live each day as if it’s your last. Considering what he went through, it’s understandable. Nice to see that they made his book into a movie. Looking forward to it.

  Comment by Alex — Wednesday November 17, 2010 @ 8:11pm PST  Reply to this post