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31 March 2006 (Hungary)
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The words "Black Power" bring back memories of names like Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, and Eldridge Cleaver...
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Good Film about a little known group
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Forest Whitaker | ... | Marcus Clay |
 | Jonathan Silverman | ... | Michael Deane |
 | Ossie Davis | ... | Rev. Gregory |
| Gene Mack | ... | T.J. |
 | Tyrone Benskin | ... | Archie |
| Paul Benjamin | ... | Otis |
| Mpho Koaho | ... | Baily |
 | Melanie Nicholls-King | ... | Rose Clay |
| Serena Lee | ... | Lucille Clay |
| Khafre Armatrading | ... | Brooks Clay |
 | Adam Weiner | ... | Charles Hillibrand |
 | Christopher Britton | ... | William Chase (as Chris Britton) |
| Beau Starr | ... | Neely |
 | Paulino Nunes | ... | Lawson |
| Aaron Walpole | ... | Jimmy |
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Rated R for some violent images and language.
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Brazil:78 min
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[Some members want Marcus removed as leader of the Deacons]
Rev. Gregory: I have been living in fear of the Klan all my life. Was bred in me as a child, and it made me less than a man. But all of that has changed because of you. You freed me, son. You woke up something in me, so don't you stop. Don't you dare stop. And tomorrow, I'm gonna be marching with you, and I'm gonna march every day to change what's happening down here. And there ain't gonna be no change in leadership. Ain't gonna be no steppin' down. Marcus is still in charge.
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Rev. Gregory: I have been living in fear of the Klan all my life. Was bred in me as a child, and it made me less than a man. But all of that has changed because of you. You freed me, son. You woke up something in me, so don't you stop. Don't you dare stop. And tomorrow, I'm gonna be marching with you, and I'm gonna march every day to change what's happening down here. And there ain't gonna be no change in leadership. Ain't gonna be no steppin' down. Marcus is still in charge.
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Featured in 10th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2004) (TV)
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The only nitpick I have with this film is that it is obviously NOT filmed in Bogalusa, LA. It also does not show the poverty of African Americans who lived and worked there - one gets the impression the blacks there were leading perfectly cozy middle class lives, save for racial segregation and oppression. These folks did not live in 3 bedroom nicely decorated, cozy homes. They live in what amounts to shanties and the poverty there is third world. Bogalusa is not some idyllic looking, charming small town. It is a very depressing, gloomy place, centered around a paper mill which smells horrible (and you can smell it all over town). By not showing this it disconnects racial oppression from how bad the economic oppression was (and still is), and it's always there.
Other than that, the Deacons rock, and predated the Panthers by several years.