Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watarts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watarts!mupmalis From: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Back to the Future Message-ID: <8500@watarts.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 08:06:54 EDT Article-I.D.: watarts.8500 Posted: Thu Jul 25 08:06:54 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jul-85 07:24:12 EDT References: <8494@watarts.UUCP> <972@umcp-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: mupmalis@watarts.UUCP (M. A. Upmalis) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 26 Summary: In article <972@umcp-cs.UUCP> mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) writes: > >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. The point is that films while they can be instruments of social change, criticism etcetera do no have to be mobilising forces of change. However they should reflect change in society. After I posted I rembered the band, but they were in essence "brought in to entertain the suburb kids". I would let one movie go by or two, but if many movies that kids see don't provide the same message of what we would like western society to be and what it actually is, then something is going to get lost in the shuffle. Children can see that older people can relate to younger people, that our ecology is a precious thing that can be lost. The impact of movies like Cotton Club, Who has seen the wolf, Harry and Tonto each in their own way are representative of other values seperate from suburbia and yuppie dum... -- Mike Upmalis (mupmalis@watarts) ihnp4!watmath!watarts!mupmalis