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TV: Roots Remake Fills Out Its Incredibly Large Cast, Premieres TONIGHT 5/30
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Don't need this either.
Roots movie i have to watch it just to compare it. But i'm not going in expecting much but anger. And definitely not feeling the white people having to put themselves in it.
Thats rich as hell. I want to support, but $30 per DVD? Is that the standard/ typical price before DVDs nowadays? I've been bootlegging too long
Go support the brotha. $30 a DVD ain't gonna set you back. $30 isn't that much money.
If it was for the set, no. But God damn $30 per DVD? Unlike most of BGOL, I'm not ballin. I just put windows on the house, bought a couch. I'm tapped
I'll purchase it later when I get on better footing
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You stupid ass cracka.
You said it the best
fuck this bullshit, another fucking slave movie/show ? shit is like over here if I want to watch Nat Geo. they only showing fucking WW1.2 and the rise and fall of Hitler and True Hollywood story Hitler
To all you people crying about the movie series, don't watch the shit then. It's other things on TV for you to watch.
I doubt that the new Roots will be better than The Book of Negros was. Honestly, I don't know that we really needed a new Roots movie. What's up with all these slave films coming out in close proximity to one another? Roots, Birth of a Nation, and the Matthew McConaughey movie... Did I miss something?
Never seen the Original Roots a day in my life.
Only segments....
Only segments....
I will try to look thru my closet and find mind and post it later. Roots was to be based on Alex Haley's search for his roots. Going back to where an ancestor of his was captured in Africa and bought to America as a slave. All the way up to his ancestors getting their so called freedom, yet just like South Africa the same elements control the land and resources and people. It is like Jonestown saying the people can leave. But all the while you will kill them before they are allowed to leave the control of their so called lord or father.
Roots caused riots in Chicago but the masses still pay taxes for brainwashing and control. The military is still used to enforce a white reality. People that do not have our complete genes are still forcing a reality on the world designed to genocide our genes. If you send your kids to school then you must have already pumped the sugar and other addictions in them for them to be programmed to be successful devils or attacked by a reality that empowers Satan.
Coming together and building for self and building our own community, city, state, nation and protect what is real. Somebody got to overcome and stop the worship of white power and all this doing for the enemy.
Cuz new and old Africans would bond together and raise hell and or at least make wiser decision to empower ourselves to have our own in all categories.Why not a show about Africa before slavery.... that would be cool
You sound like a straight cracka with evil, vindictive, hatred, spite. We all know you don't get along with Dr. Truth (most of us don't I'm one) but you took it too far to walk it back. You on that list now of known crackas including #blacklivesmatter, acur, halo,Kline, and other cacs that I don't even bother with...It's 2016 black ppl are waking up and outing crackas and it's gonna continue on BGOL....You could have said some other shit but you reverted to your true self a white European cracka jack.
I for one, don't mind the integration of slave stories but what I do mind is the white washing of said stories to show a softer side to a dark period of American history for black men. I am DVR this series,watch at my own pace but I will look for my old VHS copy of the original to compare and contrast. But my question is this, Why do we ( Black Men) need Roots, when on a daily basis, we can just turn on the news to see things haven't really changed that much, it's just more overt today.
I remember as a young kid in the 80s and 90s watching Roots and wondering how did Haley get all this info? He researched all of this before the Internet. I was impressed, but skeptical. I revisited Roots again in the 2000s and still wondered how accurate was this?
I started looking up Haley's procedure and found articles claiming it's mostly BS and that he stole bits of other people's work to build Kunta's story. Haley had put out a story about Kunta, went to Africa to verify, and pretty much got his story told back to him by the Africans, and used that as his research.
It's like if I came up with a wild theory about KD wanting to sign to Knicks because he's fucking Lala and wants to be near his side piece, posted it to BGOL. I then run into one of you brothers in the street and ask if you heard any possible Knick signings. You tell me you read online (my BGOL post) about KD & Lala fucking, and I use that as proof to back up my original theory...Then go shoot a movie based on it....I just hope that's not how he worked Malcom X too.
I started looking up Haley's procedure and found articles claiming it's mostly BS and that he stole bits of other people's work to build Kunta's story. Haley had put out a story about Kunta, went to Africa to verify, and pretty much got his story told back to him by the Africans, and used that as his research.
It's like if I came up with a wild theory about KD wanting to sign to Knicks because he's fucking Lala and wants to be near his side piece, posted it to BGOL. I then run into one of you brothers in the street and ask if you heard any possible Knick signings. You tell me you read online (my BGOL post) about KD & Lala fucking, and I use that as proof to back up my original theory...Then go shoot a movie based on it....I just hope that's not how he worked Malcom X too.
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/roots-review-history-channel-120426025.html
‘Roots’: Remade For A New Generation
In 1977, Roots was an ABC miniseries that was a surprise and a shock: Mass America hadn’t seen anything so harrowingly explicit about the evils of slavery on network television. The production racked up enormous ratings in a three-network universe — it inaugurated the concept of “event television.” Now comes a new version of Roots, still based on Alex Haley’s research-based novel of the same name. It’s a four-night production starting Memorial Day night and airing on three cable channels — History, A&E, and Lifetime — and it feels once again like the kind of television that could unite a vast audience.
The story traces history from 1750 through the end of the Civil War, and begins with the West African Mandinka warrior Kunta Kinte. He was played in the original by LeVar Burton, who is now a producer of the new project. Burton was then an unknown actor and the role made him a star; it’s likely to do the same for the new Kunta Kinte, played by the British actor Malachi Kirby with enormous charisma and skill.
Related: Get to Know ‘Roots’ Remake Star Malachi Kirby — and His Road to an Iconic Role
Each of the four nights of the new Roots was overseen by a different, prominent director — Thomas Carter, Mario Van Peebles, Philip Noyce, and Bruce Beresford — but the miniseries coheres as a unified whole, and gains an urgency in the era of Black Lives Matter.
For the new generation unfamiliar with Roots, it tells the story of Kunta Kinte’s capture and enslavement, his perilous journey to America in a slave ship, and his life on a Southern plantation, where he is re-named Toby. This Roots places heavy emphasis on Kinte’s rebellious nature and strength of character in refusing to accept his slave-name, which in turn leads to succeeding generations of his family — whose descendants include Emayatzy Corinealdi as his wife, Belle, Anika Noni Rose as daughter Kizzy, and Kizzy’s son, Chicken George, played by Rege-Jean Page — to tell of Kinte’s struggles as inspirational stories that grow into a legend. (The cast is also helped, on the slave-owner side, by the varied cruelties of men played by James Purefoy, Matthew Goode, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.)
The new production, hatched by producer Mark Wolper, son of the original Rootsproducer David Wolper, takes full advantage of a budget and special effects that enable the new Roots to stage elaborate scenes. In the first night, Kinte’s journey from Africa to America in the hold of a ship is agonizingly vivid; in the final night’s installment, whole Civil War battles are staged. In between, the characterization is vivid. Forest Whitaker’s Fiddler — a role that won Louis Gossett, Jr., an Emmy — is shrewd as an enslaved musician, and Page’s Chicken George (once a star-making role for Ben Vereen) is a verbally adroit man compelled by his circumstances to become a wily hustler to protect himself and his family.
The fourth night, set during the Civil War, gets a bit bogged down with a subplot involving Southerners played by Anna Paquin and Mekhi Phifer as spies for the North. And occasionally, the dialogue can be stilted (“Reading is my way of being a warrior; being free inside!”). But otherwise, there’s surprisingly little padding for a four-night, eight-hour miniseries. The original Roots was a ground-breaker that had to rely on melodrama for its greatest effects. The new Roots excels in the naturalism of its performances to make the horror of slavery vividly painful — and the resistance to it uplifting — in a way that deepens the tale.
Roots will air Monday through Thursday at 9 p.m. on History, A&E, and Lifetime.
‘Roots’: Remade For A New Generation
In 1977, Roots was an ABC miniseries that was a surprise and a shock: Mass America hadn’t seen anything so harrowingly explicit about the evils of slavery on network television. The production racked up enormous ratings in a three-network universe — it inaugurated the concept of “event television.” Now comes a new version of Roots, still based on Alex Haley’s research-based novel of the same name. It’s a four-night production starting Memorial Day night and airing on three cable channels — History, A&E, and Lifetime — and it feels once again like the kind of television that could unite a vast audience.
The story traces history from 1750 through the end of the Civil War, and begins with the West African Mandinka warrior Kunta Kinte. He was played in the original by LeVar Burton, who is now a producer of the new project. Burton was then an unknown actor and the role made him a star; it’s likely to do the same for the new Kunta Kinte, played by the British actor Malachi Kirby with enormous charisma and skill.
Related: Get to Know ‘Roots’ Remake Star Malachi Kirby — and His Road to an Iconic Role
Each of the four nights of the new Roots was overseen by a different, prominent director — Thomas Carter, Mario Van Peebles, Philip Noyce, and Bruce Beresford — but the miniseries coheres as a unified whole, and gains an urgency in the era of Black Lives Matter.
For the new generation unfamiliar with Roots, it tells the story of Kunta Kinte’s capture and enslavement, his perilous journey to America in a slave ship, and his life on a Southern plantation, where he is re-named Toby. This Roots places heavy emphasis on Kinte’s rebellious nature and strength of character in refusing to accept his slave-name, which in turn leads to succeeding generations of his family — whose descendants include Emayatzy Corinealdi as his wife, Belle, Anika Noni Rose as daughter Kizzy, and Kizzy’s son, Chicken George, played by Rege-Jean Page — to tell of Kinte’s struggles as inspirational stories that grow into a legend. (The cast is also helped, on the slave-owner side, by the varied cruelties of men played by James Purefoy, Matthew Goode, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.)
The new production, hatched by producer Mark Wolper, son of the original Rootsproducer David Wolper, takes full advantage of a budget and special effects that enable the new Roots to stage elaborate scenes. In the first night, Kinte’s journey from Africa to America in the hold of a ship is agonizingly vivid; in the final night’s installment, whole Civil War battles are staged. In between, the characterization is vivid. Forest Whitaker’s Fiddler — a role that won Louis Gossett, Jr., an Emmy — is shrewd as an enslaved musician, and Page’s Chicken George (once a star-making role for Ben Vereen) is a verbally adroit man compelled by his circumstances to become a wily hustler to protect himself and his family.
The fourth night, set during the Civil War, gets a bit bogged down with a subplot involving Southerners played by Anna Paquin and Mekhi Phifer as spies for the North. And occasionally, the dialogue can be stilted (“Reading is my way of being a warrior; being free inside!”). But otherwise, there’s surprisingly little padding for a four-night, eight-hour miniseries. The original Roots was a ground-breaker that had to rely on melodrama for its greatest effects. The new Roots excels in the naturalism of its performances to make the horror of slavery vividly painful — and the resistance to it uplifting — in a way that deepens the tale.
Roots will air Monday through Thursday at 9 p.m. on History, A&E, and Lifetime.
"We don't have too many slavery stories — what we have too little of are well-told stories by artists. In revisiting Roots at this time I think the opportunity ... is to have an artist or group of artists come together and address the issue in an intimate way. The storytelling of Roots is state of the art in the sense that a lot of product we watch these days at this kind of pace and rhythm is — we're trying to address a lot of material in a certain amount of time. There's another way to deal with this kind of story, and to proceed with a certain amount of attention that I see in, let's say, True Detective or The Sopranos, or any kind of TV-renaissance show. Rarely do I see the kind of focus and subjectivity that I see on a lot of these kinds of series in relation to slavery. What tends to happen is it all becomes about the brutality of beatings, the indignities, it's kind of a horror show of special effects. And that doesn't really do it for me."
Getting ready.
Ok, something is up with all these slave movies and tv shows. They even got slave shows showing in South America. 
They showing King Kunta killing Krakkkas!!
Fiddler killing Krakkkas.
Niccas boycotting Roots.
I'm enjoying it
I'm watching this bullshit...
They've changed the whole shit up.
I'm missing the point of this in 2016.....
There is no point. Greedy execs are jumping on the slave wagon.
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