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We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
“Why do people say “grow some balls?” Balls are weak and sensitive. If you want to be tough grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.”—Betty White
The world just got a little less sassier. In a bad way.
I'm not terribly versed. It's possible that Sneakers is the only film I've seen him in but he was obviously a legend.
So on those two, and they came out when I was little but I saw them before I was 6 or 7, in To Sir he plays the part of an immigrant to England from Africa waiting on an engineering job and had to take a job as a teacher in a reform school. There are a lot of highs and lows as he attempts to treat the kids as adults only to see that fail at first and become ostracized by most of the staff and all the kids. So he has to wrangle back all that respect amidst racial upheaval and issues that were being faced in England and the US and elsewhere.
For Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, he plays a late 30’s Doctor who has just gotten engaged to a 23-25 year old white woman after a trip to Hawaii. He goes to her parents house but has to go to Switzerland for a few months. He will end the relationship if he doesn’t get both parents’ blessings. Meanwhile the maid corners him and his parents get flown up from Los Angeles to meet the family having no idea they are white. The interplay between societal norms and breaking barriers between the races is paramount to the plot. The moms have their reservations but warm up to it. The dads aren’t into it. It’s pretty incredible and that it didn’t paint the relationship in a negative light - more so just addressed stereotypical opinions and challenged them - was also kind of unique considering it was filmed when interracial marriages were still banned In about a third of the country. You saw films like Watermelon Man a couple years later and then certainly Jungle Fever a few decades later still portraying interracial relationships as bad and could never work. Luckily they were wrong. We just had to get there. And the thing about Sydney is that he was one of the first black actors that white people took seriously. So he had a platform to work from that was sort of unique in the mid to late 60’s.