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For the record, the top-grossing Civil War movies according to IMDB (As near as I can tell) are: Gone with the Wind (Gross: $198.68M) Dances with Wolves (Gross: $184.21M) Lincoln (Gross: $182.21M) Cold Mountain (Gross: $95.64M) Gangs of New York (Gross: $77.81M) How the West was Won (Gross: $46.50M) Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Gross: $37.52M) The Outlaw Josey Wales (Gross: $31.80M) Glory (Gross: $26.83M) Free State of Jones (Gross: $20.76M) Gods and Generals (Gross: $12.87M) Gettysburg (Gross: $10.77M) The Birth of a Nation (Gross: $10.00M) there's probably a few others that I'm missing but that kinda gives you the gist of it. E: 
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Maybe you're reading in to the Firefly thing a little too much
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Proud Christian Mom posted:Guillotine that bird This was this senior prank at my high school. Someone cut the head off a chicken and let it loose in the cafeteria during a lunch period.
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Jul 4, 2018 19:29
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maffew buildings posted:Maybe you're reading in to the Firefly thing a little too much It's a space Western, so there is a space Union and a space Confederacy. I think it's more of an homage to Westerns than a nod to the Confederacy.
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maffew buildings posted:Maybe you're reading in to the Firefly thing a little too much Firefly was blatantly patterned after the Westerns which depict heroic former Confederates finding a new life in the frontier.
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Jul 4, 2018 19:31
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Wonder what was the equivalent of Space Slavery for the Firefly CSA
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Jul 4, 2018 19:38
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In Firefly it actually was States' (Planets') Rights that the rebels fought for.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Firefly was blatantly patterned after the Westerns which depict heroic former Confederates finding a new life in the frontier. What lead me to the article in the first place was thinking about John Ford's Cavalry trilogy and why he seemed so intent on sucking the Confederacy's cock in those movies. Rio Grande 1950 posted:At the ceremony, Trooper Tyree is given a furlough to continue his run from the law when one of the Texas marshals reappears, stealing General Sheridan's horse for the purpose. As the troops pass in review (with the regimental band playing Dixie at the General's request to please Mrs. Yorke), the movie closes. And, in a more recent series, Hell on Wheels is about "the story focused on Cullen Bohannon (Mount), a former Confederate soldier who, while working as foreman and chief engineer on the railroad, initially attempted to track down the Union soldiers who murdered his wife and young son during the American Civil War. " So this Lost Cause stuff isn't done yet. My favorite recent movie about the antebellum South is Django Unchained.
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In honor of America and the fact that I found a deer tick on me yesterday, have an article about how ticks are rapidly taking over the US more quickly than ebola-infected MS-13 terrorists: https://www.wired.com/story/we-have-no-idea-how-bad-the-us-tick-problem-is/ quote:Around the world, diseases spread by ticks are on the rise. Reported cases of Lyme, the most common US tick-borne illness, have quadrupled since the 1990s. Other life-threatening infections like anaplasmosis, babesiosis, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever are increasing in incidence even more quickly than Lyme. Meat allergies caused by tick bites have skyrocketed from a few dozen a decade ago to more than 5,000 in the US alone, according to experts. And new tick-borne pathogens are emerging at a troubling clip; since 2004, seven new viruses and bugs transmitted through tick bite have shown up in humans in the US. My friend's girlfriend has the meat allergy thing after getting bitten by a Lone Star tick. She's a vegan, so the meat part is kind of a moot point, but it provoked a number of other allergic reactions as well.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Firefly was blatantly patterned after the Westerns which depict heroic former Confederates finding a new life in the frontier. Sure but that just means Whedon stole a style he liked blended it with Cowboy Bebop and ran with it. Assuming that idiot thought any deeper about where those Western tropes came from is really stretching it.
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psydude posted:In honor of America and the fact that I found a deer tick on me yesterday, have an article about how ticks are rapidly taking over the US more quickly than ebola-infected MS-13 terrorists: Really good podcast on that allergy here https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/alpha-gal/
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Is everyone forgetting Hateful 8? That was a civil war movie, and it definitely spent some time hating on confederates.
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Jul 4, 2018 19:59
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Also the time-honored drama, Wild Wild West.
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RFC2324 posted:Is everyone forgetting Hateful 8? That was a civil war movie, and it definitely spent some time hating on confederates. So Tarantino vs the South?
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:I feel bad for Bush Sr. I don’t know what the gently caress I’d do if my wife somehow passed away before me. I am seriously amazed that he's still alive after that.
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lightpole posted:So Tarantino vs the South? His entire career is a pathological need to say slurs, backdrop is secondary
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maffew buildings posted:His entire career is a pathological need to say slurs, backdrop is secondary it was the perfect backdrop for it. I don't think a single character didn't use a slur at least once.
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Jul 4, 2018 20:20
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That's more calories than I take in all week, even eating junk and fast food.
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Jul 4, 2018 20:21
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Django did a pretty good job dunking on the south.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Sure but that just means Whedon stole a style he liked blended it with Cowboy Bebop and ran with it. Assuming that idiot thought any deeper about where those Western tropes came from is really stretching it. He doesn't need to have thought about it for it to be part of what the show tells the audience. That's just how semiotics do. He lives in a society which taught him that "sexy rebel cowboy fighting against stodgy industrials" was an a-ok subject for a popular TV show. That he didn't question that is evidence of how normalized it is. But Outlaw Josey Wales, with it's confederate hero and villains literally in US army uniforms, is probably the biggest example. My dad loves that movie. RFC2324 posted:Is everyone forgetting Hateful 8? That was a civil war movie, and it definitely spent some time hating on confederates. Yeah, but it definitely did not uncritically portray loyalists as the good guys. Jackson's character is a nihilistic sadist, and trying not to spoil it, but: the loving Lincoln letter, omg. It's not a perfect movie but I still love it.
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Doc Hawkins posted:Jackson's character is a nihilistic sadist, Oh, there were no good guys in that, but it was definitely WAY more critical of the confederacy than the union. And the letter, to me, just goes to show how hard it was/is for a black man to succeed.
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RFC2324 posted:Oh, there were no good guys in that, but it was definitely WAY more critical of the confederacy than the union. Yes, because of how many people are not as free from racism as they think they are, and how butthurt they get when this is pointed out to them. That's the "both sides" aspect, and there's obviously a sympathetic (?!) confederate in the story, but you might be right that on the whole it's harder on the traitors. I mean, you'd hope. You'd hope that'd be the default of any movies made today and set in the time, to be ever slightly more critical of the literal treasonous slavers, but here we are. I hope Tarantino becomes the new Ford and keeps pumping out westerns forever to balance them out.
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Flikken posted:It's a space Western, so there is a space Union and a space Confederacy. And yet the Cowboy Bebop fans were never so annoying
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The Dog Who Played Duke In The Bush's Baked Beans Ads Has Died https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2444880/the-dog-who-played-duke-in-the-bushs-baked-beans-ads-has-died  gently caress 2018
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M_Gargantua posted:Django did a pretty good job dunking on the south. Southern people hate QT with a violent passion
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Milo and POTUS posted:Southern people hate QT with a violent passion I like QT's views on nazis/confederates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utUZNsHjOyQ
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Milo and POTUS posted:Southern people hate QT with a violent passion Counterpoint: I watched Django in a roughly 80%+ black audience in Jacksonville, FL, and it got a lot of love!
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mlmp08 posted:Counterpoint: I watched Django in a roughly 80%+ black audience in Jacksonville, FL, and it got a lot of love! I've met very few people who weren't white who considered themselves southern, just sayin
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RFC2324 posted:I've met very few people who weren't white who considered themselves southern, just sayin I've met plenty, but I also lived in Louisiana for a while and my dad, while white, has been tied into a lot of black musicians and so on in Louisiana for his entire life. It helps that he's both a musician and a public defender, so he's not one to be rabidly racist.
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https://twitter.com/NBCNewYork/status/1014602862616301568 https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/1014610280519626752 The current feed is basically someone lying down on the actual statue's base, so it's sorta boring. I could see it going wrong in a hurry though!
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mlmp08 posted:I've met plenty, but I also lived in Louisiana for a while and my dad, while white, has been tied into a lot of black musicians and so on in Louisiana for his entire life. It helps that he's both a musician and a public defender, so he's not one to be rabidly racist. I found it often the white people who wanted to categorize people by color and most black people I find accept that they are southern or texan or whatever. I've only really lived in south carolina and texas though.
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The chief of Scotland Yard posted:“I do want to reassure the public, however, that there is no evidence that either the man or woman recently visited any of the sites that were decontaminated following the attempted murders of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.” That is literally the opposite of reassuring. How is this not casus belli?
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Quentin Tarantino presents: Sherman: March To The Sea Starting Michael Fassbender as General Sherman, and Nick Offerman as Ulysses S. Grant. Summer 2020
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BigDave posted:Quentin Tarantino presents: Thatd be rad
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BigDave posted:Quentin Tarantino presents: Don't tease
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SimonCat posted:What lead me to the article in the first place was thinking about John Ford's Cavalry trilogy and why he seemed so intent on sucking the Confederacy's cock in those movies. It is a really good series that Hell on Wheels
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