Today I finished watching the extremely long T.V. mini-series (first seen in 1977) Roots. It was long and depressing ( 
) but in the end they were finally happy ( 
). It takes place over four or five generations from Kunta Kinte (above, played by LeVar Burton<--correct spelling?) who is taken from Africa to be a slave in America to his great-grandson, Tom (?) who is finally freed (two times, I guess). It's quite long and--did I mention?--depressing.
I thought that the way they made up young people to look old was kind of cool. The picture below is a comparison of (in the movie) Kunta Kinte's daughter young and then as she was when they made her look like she was 83 years old. I read on the girl below's website that it took five hours to make her up like she was on the right. That's a lot of reading time.
More Later.
Comments
Feb. 19, 2006 - Re:
Posted by MissSprite
Hello!
No, I actually haven't seen The Visitation yet. I don't think it is playing in this state anymore! I REALLY want to see it though! Can you believe its snowing? I hope it isn't freezing cold all spring!
Oh yea, you can post comments on my blog now since you have a blog. It is just set so that only homeschool bloggers can post comments.
God Bless!
Sprite
Feb. 20, 2006 - depressing
Posted by Anonymous
You need to know that the movie you watched was 100% fiction even though the author protrayed it as a true story of his family that he researced for years and years on location. They have since found out that he is just a good writer -- he made most people believe. Life has enough difficult times with out making them up! Cheers
Mar. 4, 2006 - Untitled Comment
Posted by CreativeHomeschooling
Roots was the first mini-series I ever saw. My sister and I were in grade school and we were allowed to stay up late that week just to watch the show.
I just watched "Uncle Tom's Cabin" with dc, to give them a feel for what slavery was like. We will graduate to Roots in a year of so.
Jennie von Eggers
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www.CreativeHomeschooling.com
Jul. 29, 2008 - ive seen it
Posted by Anonymous
ive got the dvd i got it of ebay u can get i cheep off there i watchd it in skl but i really wanted to know what happend to kunta kinte so ive wachd it hw many tyms its a gr8 film dus make me laugh in some bits but it is a awsume film very enjoyable but some parts make u think ouch he he