May 12 2008
Movie Review v. The Great Debaters
This movie can be summarized in one sentence. Black debate team from Wiley College, the unlikely under dog, going to defeat the Harvard debate team. This plot would have been great, if it were realistic; Wiley college never faced Harvard. I don’t like the fact that the majority of the movie was based on real events that have happened, but the ending-when they faced Harvard- was all made up. The way the movie built up to that moment made it even worse. It’s like someone doing a two hour equation, but finding out the answer at the end is wrong.
The second thing I don’t’ like about this movie is that there wasn’t much debate. This movie was more focused on how blacks were treated in the past in the south. There was a combined maybe 15 minutes of actual debate and they weren’t even that great. The actors conveyed their speeches in an angry manner: It seemed like they were fighting instead of actually debating. To prove a point, a person doesn’t have to raise his voice, but the directors probably wanted to make it more dramatic.
The Great Debaters was the best movie I’ve seen in a long time; however, that doesn’t mean much, considering I’ve seen so many terrible movies lately. The historical fallacies really ruined it for me,.
6.5/9
Yeah.
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