Great and ordinary debater

Destinee 2022-04-21 09:02:43

Another good film directed and directed by Denzel Washington, based on a true story, tells the story of a group of debaters at a black university in the United States in the 1930s who overcame various difficulties and finally defeated the Harvard debate team in order to fight for black civil rights. A typical American inspirational film at the core.
Politically impeccable, the plot is vivid, and Washington's performance is still so top-notch, but it always feels like something is missing, probably because there are already so many good movies of the same genre. Anything, if you want to make a breakthrough on the basis of the previous peak, you just need to spend extraordinary efforts. Anyway, worth a look.

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Extended Reading
  • Crawford 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    Forest Whitaker's performance is better than Washington

  • Alvina 2022-04-24 07:01:15

    Although you don't need to watch it to know the ending, this American inspirational film is still very moving.

The Great Debaters quotes

  • Melvin B. Tolson: Take the meanest, most restless nigger. Strip him of his clothes in front of the remaining male niggers, female niggers, and nigger infants, tar and feather him, tie each leg to a horse facing an opposite direction, set him on fire, and beat both horses until they tear him apart in front of male, female and nigger infants. Bullwhip and beat the remaining nigger males within an inch of their life. Do not kill them but put the fear of God in them, for they can be useful for future breeding. Anybody know who Willie Lynch was? Anybody? Raise your hand. No one? He was a vicious slave owner in the West Indies. The slave-masters in the colony of Virginia were having trouble controlling their slaves, so they sent for Mr. Lynch to teach them his methods. The word "lynching" came from his last name. His methods were very simple, but they were diabolical. Keep the slave physically strong but psychologically weak and dependent on the slave master. Keep the body, take the mind.

  • Henry Lowe: School's the only place you can read all day. Except prison.