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re: "Ghosts of Ole Miss"
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:32 am to Scrapnutz39
Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:32 am to Scrapnutz39
Agree 100%. Talked about the bad only, and didn't gather any new and unique insights.
I was expecting it to be an awesome perspective about the football team for 60 minutes with a ton of great interviews and newly uncovered facts, but instead it was wright Thompson filming himself writing on a pad and thinking about if that guy in the picture was his relative. Is he serious? He wasn't even at the riots and didn't go to ole miss. Nobody cares about your little side stories.
Why would he leave out the fact that the klan members that "rallied" for the lsu game needed a full police escort because people were throwing stuff and them and heckling them? Why would he leave out that 100 yards past the rally, a huge group of students of all races held their own " turn your back on hate rally"? Why would he leave out that the drunk student who said something to our student body president nearly got his arse kicked and was thrown out of the bar?
It's pretty obvious what he was doing. He was just rewording the same story other people have told, but because he is a good writer, people thought it was "so powerful." if you look past the sentence structure, and the dude narrating to screenshots of himself in the grove, nothing new was discovered. Huge disappointment.
I was expecting it to be an awesome perspective about the football team for 60 minutes with a ton of great interviews and newly uncovered facts, but instead it was wright Thompson filming himself writing on a pad and thinking about if that guy in the picture was his relative. Is he serious? He wasn't even at the riots and didn't go to ole miss. Nobody cares about your little side stories.
Why would he leave out the fact that the klan members that "rallied" for the lsu game needed a full police escort because people were throwing stuff and them and heckling them? Why would he leave out that 100 yards past the rally, a huge group of students of all races held their own " turn your back on hate rally"? Why would he leave out that the drunk student who said something to our student body president nearly got his arse kicked and was thrown out of the bar?
It's pretty obvious what he was doing. He was just rewording the same story other people have told, but because he is a good writer, people thought it was "so powerful." if you look past the sentence structure, and the dude narrating to screenshots of himself in the grove, nothing new was discovered. Huge disappointment.
This post was edited on 10/31/12 at 7:33 am
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Posted on 10/31/12 at 7:57 am to RebelExpress38
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Why would he leave out that the drunk student who said something to our student body president nearly got his arse kicked and was thrown out of the bar?
this was in the show... sort of.
Posted on 10/31/12 at 8:37 am to RebelExpress38
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I was expecting it to be an awesome perspective about the football team for 60 minutes with a ton of great interviews and newly uncovered facts, but instead it was wright Thompson filming himself writing on a pad and thinking about if that guy in the picture was his relative. Is he serious? He wasn't even at the riots and didn't go to ole miss. Nobody cares about your little side stories.
an "awesome perspective" about an om football team in the 60's...without the racial storyline is lame bro. nobody cares. He is telling a story to a national audience. FWIW, i enjoyed the way he tried to relate the struggle b/t the past, present, and how mississippi is trying to move forward. it is a difficult issue to tackle and wright did a good job.
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