Birth of a Nation sounds INSANE. vol. Nat Turner Slave Rebellion Movie (Teaser Trailer - p. 5)

How am I trying to discredit it? I just said it's getting Oscar buzz. :lol: And it got a standing ovation at Sundance.

Just saying. This, Selma, 12 Years of Slave.

How about an astronaut, a screenwriter, or a computer science thief, or a guy getting plowed by bear for once? :smh:

Like I said /HotTake :smokin

Selma and 12 years a slave were exceptional movies though they deserved to be nominated. Nat turner is an important story and finally is getting the recognition. Also a young black producer and writer AND director AND star put it all together and the first thing YOU think of is the same ole hollywood ********?

Man you playing right into the devils hands bruh go somewhere with that
Ok. Keep falling for the okey-doke.

White man will only give you that carrot when you make one genre of film :smh:
 
Ok. Keep falling for the okey-doke.

White man will only give you that carrot when you make one genre of film :smh:

Either you slow or just refuse to read what I typed. You playing the same ole **** folks do is discredit one black mans achievement cause the devil programmed you do it. This brother just wrote, produced, financed, directed and starred in a movie about one of the greatest black men and political figures we have ever seen and you wanna say it hollywood pulling the wool over our eyes again instead of giving the brother a chance to wow us all.

You know why this movie ain't been made by hollywood before right? Black man freeing slaves and killing white folks? the fact we've never seen this movie until now is the white man pulling the wool over our eyes.

I swear yall i just don't even know anymore :lol:
 
 
never been too impressed with this director's work


hopefully the movie is actually good and doesnt just get by on it's subject material 


This is first movie he directed what in the **** are you talking about? :lol:
just googled his name and thought the movies were directed by him as well

was wondering how he directed and acted in all his movies :rofl:

Even so, what has he done that was that bad?
Acting wise he's been in some weak movies. Not a lot and nothing that'd make you think he's a bad actor but if you thought he directed them too you'd be like he's average at best. He really hasn't been a lot of huge roles.

I know him mostly for being in Arbitrage, Red Tails, and The Great Debaters.

Potential wise, I feel like he's the type of actor that if he went to tv he could find a great show to star in or co-star in as a character actor but I did not know he was a writer and director so he has the skill and talent to open more doors for himself than other actors.

Obviously I meant next year. And yes, it is getting Oscar buzz already. Guarantee it will be nominated next year. Especially with all the controversy this year.

Why cause its about Nat tuner it may happen to be a good movie? :rolleyes

Why can't people let this be great before they try and discredit it?
How am I trying to discredit it? I just said it's getting Oscar buzz. :lol: And it got a standing ovation at Sundance.

Just saying. This, Selma, 12 Years of Slave.

How about an astronaut, a screenwriter, or a computer science thief, or a guy getting plowed by bear for once? :smh:

Like I said /HotTake :smokin
These movies done by a black actor don't exist. Where are these movies? Even if I ignored some of these movies are based on real ppl these fictional movies aint casting black ppl.

You have to make the great movie with a black actor doing a great performance first before you start complaining about the Oscars and who doesn't get nominated.

So once again when this topic comes up it's about Hollywood not casting black actors. Not the Academy ignoring black actors and black movies.

FTR, you put a younger Denzel or Jamie Foxx in The Revenant I'm sure they'd get nominated too. You strand Chiwetel Ejiofor on Mars instead he'd get nominated. Show me the black screenwriter that's written several great movies and had to do it under fake names cuz he was blacklisted and that movie would get made. It goes on and on.
 
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Making a film about Nat Turner and selling it to fox gives me the feeling there's a lot he doesn't quite comprehend about Nat Turner
 
Making a film about Nat Turner and selling it to fox gives me the feeling there's a lot he doesn't quite comprehend about Nat Turner
He didn't sell the movie to FOX :lol: That's not quite how the business work. It was a bidding war.

Even if I'm ignoring you mixing FOX news with FOX studios it comes down to do you want your movie to be seen? Cuz if it's good enough and grosses a lot of money it's just another movie that breaks Hollywood stereotypes when it comes to movies with large black casts. All you constantly hear - like in the OP - is that black films don't sell, too violent, it'll cost too much to make, blah blah. To me that's more important.

It's not like the entirety of FOX is just a cover for the klan and they're just making money off black ppl. It's a business, fact is many of them running it are white. That shouldn't stop black ppl making movies from doing what they can to get their movies out there. Would you rather he sold it to SONY? The Weinstein Company? Disney? Miramax? Who?

I mean you bring this up like it's a problem but bring no solutions. There are no completely black owned movie studios with millions to spend on par with the major studios. There is no black Hollywood option b.
 
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Yeah me too :lol:

I was about to say I saw parts of this back in JHS. Mad late.

This sounds good. Never thought we'd get a good old black ppl killin racist white ppl and slave owners movie.


Waaaaait, did you miss Django?
 
He didn't sell the movie to FOX :lol: That's not quite how the business work. It was a bidding war.

Even if I'm ignoring you mixing FOX news with FOX studios it comes down to do you want your movie to be seen? Cuz if it's good enough and grosses a lot of money it's just another movie that breaks Hollywood stereotypes when it comes to movies with large black casts. All you constantly hear - like in the OP - is that black films don't sell, too violent, it'll cost too much to make, blah blah. To me that's more important.

It's not the entirety of FOX is just a cover for the klan and they're just making money off black ppl. It's a business, fact is many of them running it are white. That shouldn't stop black ppl making movies from doing what they can to get their movies out there. Would you rather he sold it to SONY? The Weinstein Company? Disney? Miramax? Who?

I mean you bring this up like it's a problem but bring no solutions. There are no completely black owned movie studios with millions to spend on par with the major studios. There is no black Hollywood option b.

This is what I don't get is almost like folks are conditioned to find fault in anything a brother does evens something overwhelming positive as this ( so far the movie still could suck).

This is a black movie made about the black struggle and brothers are LOOKING for things to nitpick about
 
Parker acknowledged as much when he stepped on stage to a standing ovation after his film ended. During a the post-film Q&A session, one audience member asked the director, “This film carried a lot of responsibility, how can we help you carry it?” Parker replied that he made the movie for one reason: to create change agents. Not just in regard to race, but gender, sexuality, any form of injustice.


This from a Nate Parker Q/A after the sundance screening

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/25/sundance-birth-of-a-nation
 
Yeah me too :lol:

I was about to say I saw parts of this back in JHS. Mad late.

This sounds good. Never thought we'd get a good old black ppl killin racist white ppl and slave owners movie.


Waaaaait, did you miss Django?
Yeah I saw it but that was a QT flick and most of his movies have that level of violence whether they're white or black.

Plus Django did not kill enough racist white ppl imo. Also this movie will be a lot of black ppl killing a lot of racist white ppl. Not just one guy.

What Turner did is what I'm talking about. I want at least a dozen movies where a black guy/ppl during slavery just goes killing all the racists slave owners from plantation to plantation. Then another slave revolt flick. Then I want a black Rambo type to go around killing scores of Confederate soldiers in a Civil War movie. Then I want a captured slave revolt on a slave ship where they kill all the white slavers and then become "pirates" going around attacking other slave ships in the trans-Atlantic slave trade routes. I want a Harriet Tubman: Assassin movie.

But let me stop there and not give away too many of my good ideas.
 
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I heen asking for a Nat Turner movie for years

And the title :pimp: :pimp: :pimp: white jimmies have certainly been rustled lol
 
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Hollywood needs to go back to the Rambo era where it was okay for the hero of the story to kill waves of people. Back when even batman would kill people
 
I understand it was a "bidding war".

Fox acquired the rights. Does that not imply that the film was bought? Who did they buy the film from? Films are bought without the original owners having any say? Essentially it's an auction? The highest bidder gets the film? Hm. Reminds me of something else.
 
That's pathetic man, you have to be trolling. I doubt anyone really lacks vision, strategy and the ability to see the bigger picture that greatly.
 
I understand it was a "bidding war".
No you don't.

Fox acquired the rights. Does that not imply that the film was bought? Who did they buy the film from? Films are bought without the original owners having any say? Essentially it's an auction? The highest bidder gets the film? Hm. Reminds me of something else.
You went from Parker sold it to FOX and therefore he doesn't understand a lot about Nat Turner to it was an auction for a movie where the highest bidder won and that's just like slave auctions.

CLOWN

:smh: You don't even have a ******* point.
 
No you don't.
You went from Parker sold it to FOX and therefore he doesn't understand a lot about Nat Turner to it was an auction for a movie where the highest bidder won and that's just like slave auctions.

CLOWN

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You don't even have a ******* point.
Perhaps my wording was lazy but I actually wasn't equating bidding with slavery but more so with capitalism which is the most extreme form of capitalism. 

How could a movie that appears to be against "slavery" be compliict with yet another form of slavery?

A film about slavery being "aquired" by Fox corporation which perpetuates yet another form of slavery. 
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Its just another American movie. Nothing gained, Nothing lost.

Good Day.
 
Here's the deal (for the skeptics)...

Go and look through some of the reviews from the screening at Sundance. Emotions ranged from applause to tears due to how good the film was and the subject matter it touched on.

Parker is not Tyler Perry. This movie will not be a caricature or a half-***** effort. The hype seems to be VERY real.
 
No you don't.

You went from Parker sold it to FOX and therefore he doesn't understand a lot about Nat Turner to it was an auction for a movie where the highest bidder won and that's just like slave auctions.


CLOWN

:smh: You don't even have a ******* point.

Perhaps my wording was lazy but I actually wasn't equating bidding with slavery but more so with capitalism which is the most extreme form of capitalism. 
This don't even make sense but maybe you can make sense of it at a later point.
How could a movie that appears to be against "slavery" be compliict with yet another form of slavery?
Cuz movies are not ppl.

Plus capitalism did not begat slavery :lol: :smh:

If capitalism is a form of slavery you're part taking in it right now unless you stole the computer you're using, stole the internet connection, and are stealing the electricity.

A film about slavery being "aquired" by Fox corporation which perpetuates yet another form of slavery. :lol:  

Its just another American movie. Nothing gained, Nothing lost.

Good Day.
Can't get right :smh:

Also you still haven't provided any solutions.

Here's the deal (for the skeptics)...

Go and look through some of the reviews from the screening at Sundance. Emotions ranged from applause to tears due to how good the film was and the subject matter it touched on.

Parker is not Tyler Perry. This movie will not be a caricature or a half-***** effort. The hype seems to be VERY real.
I didn't even want to get in to that part since ppl will get on the hype is just hype and reviews are subjective.

The movie could be a masterpiece and I'm betting once the thread for the movie is made or if it happens in here there'll be a few ppl hating like crazy on movie to dumb complaints to nitpicks.

Contrarians gonna contrarian.
 
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It depends on who the audience was cuz it doesn't take much to make white people emotional :lol:
Here's the deal (for the skeptics)...

Go and look through some of the reviews from the screening at Sundance. Emotions ranged from applause to tears due to how good the film was and the subject matter it touched on.

Parker is not Tyler Perry. This movie will not be a caricature or a half-***** effort. The hype seems to be VERY real.
 
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