MovieChat Forums > Mississippi Burning (1989) Discussion > Wake up, people!

Wake up, people!

posted 12 years ago by sassysweethart64
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If you people will read and do enough research, and possibly even be lucky enough to KNOW Real facts, you will find out that this story is more Factual than Fictional! They were forced to change all locations, all names etc...and told to even make up a couple of situations. Furthermore, a LOT of the real black folks who know the REAL story (and a few white folks also) will tell you that it is TRUE and they are all a little pissed that the movie showed only a small piece of the racist brutality against black folks. ...the REAL story is much worse.
Pretty sad, they are STILL afraid to talk to this very day!

[–] raybilgin 12 years ago

wake up white paypol!

[–] Errol_Barnes 11 years ago

Hwake up, hwite peeeeepol!

[–] Lulzke 11 years ago

It was a hollywood movie based on a true story. Again, BASED ON A TRUE STORY. It's not a documentary. It's not a news report. It is a movie created to tell a story, and entertain.

[–] Balberith 11 years ago

Quite true. I'm still waiting for a movie to be made about the four black girls who were killed in the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham.

"A real man would rather bow down to a strong woman than dominate a weak one"

[–] CheshireCatsGrin 10 years ago

The documentary 4 Little Girls by Spike Lee covers it well.

[–] Stoshie 10 years ago

While what you say is largely true, the violence and burnings that were portrayed in the film as being a direct result of the FBI coming to the town to investigate the killing of the three civil rights workers never happened. Neither did the beating of his wife by the deputy, or of the deputy by an FBI agent in the barbershop. I know much of the movie's plot was added for dramatic effect, but those inaccuracies detracted from the film for me. The real story is dramatic and horrific enough on its own; those distortions were unnecessary, in my opinion.

Whenever you see the phrase "Based on real events" or something similar, at the start of a movie, know that much of what you are going to see is purely fictional.

[–] Neuronhead 9 years ago

All of the actors were real humans.

I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe