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Selma Movie Analysis Of The Movie

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On December, 25th 2014, a wonderful and meaningful movie came to the theater, and its name is "Selma". The plot of the movie is built from an unforgettable historic event that changed the whole world, especially the life of minority ethnics among the United States. Under the hand of director Ava DuVernay, the movie takes audiences back to the year of 1965 to live once with one of the most meaningful marches of the world. As mentioned, the movie is a great “throwback” that takes audiences back to Selma, Alabama in 1965, to be a part of the Civil Right Movement's march. This march was the key point that led to the decision of signing the Voting Right Acts 1965 under president Lyndon Baines Johnson. Moreover, the march was an expression of the …show more content…

Everything started to be tightened after the night of 18 February 1965, when the state troopers of Alabama suppress a peaceful march in Marion. During the suppression, an Alabama state trooper intentionally, in my opinion, shot Jimmie Lee Jackson when he tried to protect his mother from the violence of the state troopers. At the funeral of Jimmie L. Jackson, Doctor King mentioned in his speech that, “He was murdered by the brutality of every sheriff who practices lawlessness in the name of law. He was murdered by the irresponsibility of every politician, from governors on down, who has fed his constituents the stale bread of hatred and the spoiled meat of racism. He was murdered by the timidity of a federal government that can spend millions of dollars a day to keep troops in South Vietnam and cannot protect the rights of its own citizens seeking the right to vote. He was murdered by the indifference of every white minister of the gospel who has remained silent behind the safe security of his stained-glass windows. And he was murdered by the cowardice of every Negro who passively accepts the evils of segregation and stands on the sidelines in the struggle for justice” (Selma). And Jackson’s death is the most important material that created the march from Selma to Alabama State’s capital in Montgomery on the day of 7 March 1965. This march is one of the key point of the whole campaign, as …show more content…

The media named this event as Bloody Sunday because of the marchers were chased and barbarically attacked by the troopers and police by clubs and tear gas. It triggered the outrage all over the nation. And by the call of Doctor Martin Luther King, many people included white and colors from many of the states came to join another march that led by himself on March 9th. The march was returned peacefully. However, on the night of the same day, James Reeb, a white minister that came from another state to join Doctor King march, was attacked to death. James Reeb's death created the second outrage and concern among the country. That led to the final march on 21 March, and to the victory of the Civil Right

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The graphic memoir, March, is a biography about Congressman John Lewis’ young life in rural Alabama which provides a great insight into lives of black families in 1940s and 50s under Jim Crow and segregation laws. March opens with a violent march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which the gruesome acts later became known as “Bloody Sunday,” during this march, 600 peaceful civil rights protestors were attacked by the Alabama state troopers for not listening to their commands. The story then goes back and forth depicts Lewis growing up in rural Alabama and President Obama’s inauguration in 2009. This story of a civil rights pioneer, John Lewis, portrays a strong influence between geography, community, and politics. The correlation between these pillars of March is that they have to coexist with other in order for John Lewis to exist that the world knows today.

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Troy Jackson’s purpose was to inform how King became so involved in the equal rights movement and how he rose to be such an important figurehead. He describes how people like E. D. Nixon, Vernon Johns, and Rosa Parks influenced King to be involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Jackson’s thesis was that Martin

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The two movies, “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner” and “Selma” are outstanding in their own perspective. The movie “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner” was based on a woman, Joanna Drayton, an extroverted woman and a man, John Prentice, a black doctor become engaged in a time period, 1960s, where civil right movement was at peak and racial equality was a national topic with different personal views and ideas about the situation. On the other hand, “Selma” depicts the movement to secure equal voting rights by Martin Luther King Jr. through his march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Even though both movies were exemplifying the same time period of 1960s, they have a different method in filmmaking. In common terms, the movies that are released in the past decade has been more concentrated toward digital processing and editing however the movie made in 1960s had seldom reach to digital editing and processing.

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