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- From: twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: TOP TEN MOVIES, as of 23 December 1993
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 23:23:18 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- References: <1992Dec23.220802.25817@microsoft.com> <37150024@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> <mattm-301292191224@mcmelmon.apple.com>
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- Summary: Malcolm X
-
- In article <mattm-301292191224@mcmelmon.apple.com> mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
- >
- >Malcom X
- [is]
- >twenty million in the hole. And while
- >Dracula is a story that will sell overseas, do Europeans and
- >Japanese really care to sit for 3 and a half hours on the life of
- >a radical American black activist? I doubt it.
-
- Malcolm X is about many things, but one of those things is a story
- about a man's spiritual journey, and how, through the strength of
- his convictions and his growth as a moral agent, he actually manages
- to have an effect on his society.
-
- Seems a story with universal appeal to me.
-
- Besides, it was a gorgeous film, full of energy and character.
-
- Barbara
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