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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Back to the Future
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 19:05:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 19:05:15 1985
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In article <8494@watarts.UUCP> mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) writes:

>Another comment about Back to the Future, did you notice that there
>was only one black with a speaking part, if not only one black in the
>movie, also the female roles in the film fell a little bit short
>of what one might call full human poetential. The comment about
>Spielberg involved films (I'll come back to goonies) is that they
>are suburban, the suburbs are white bread and mayo, but still
>there is space for some other representations that Harrison Ford
>or some variant of his younger brother. Goonies was an exception
>but in the case of a group instead of one against the world
>the mix seeemed appropriate, but they were not real people at least
>not for kids to identify with....

This is both wrong and silly.  There are a number of black speaking parts.
Regardless of that, didja ever stop to consider that the positions of women
and blacks in society (even California society) were just a wee bit
different back then?  I don't know how well integrated S. Cal. was back
then, but the East Coast sure wasn't.  Besides, this is comedy.  A little
characture isn't that grave a sin.

This movie has put a wierd set of conflicting impulses in me.  On the one
hand, there's a part of me that would like to go back and visit the late 50s
and early 60s.  On the other hand, another part of me likes it just fine
right here, and would prefer to be 10 years younger-- now.  I guess it's
freedom versus simplicity.  Oh Well.

Charley Wingate  umcp-cs!mangoe

  "You want me to make a donation to the Coast Guard Youth Auxiliary!"