At 04:34 PM 9/4/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>IMHO
>
>..that he should have protected it from the misuse by Hollywood in a scene
>from a KKK rally. He allowed his beautiful and spiritual music to be
>perverted by the film, IMHO. Why? Either you argue that he was naive and
>taken advantage of by the film makers...or he simply Sold Out. Meaning he
>allowed them to use his music in that way because he wanted the film
>publicity and money and false fame. Can you make an argument that that
>use of the song was simply ironic? I did not see that, and most of the
>audience had not a clue that it might have been...
>
>Jack Lynch
Mr. "Lynch"
I was similarly disturbed by the scene and it's implications for Southern
history, and I found it far from a celebration of that gathering, but the
surreal use of a life song ("O Death") in such a warped and dark part of
history. I don't think anybody was selling out or the like, simply to
portray that real scene in a deep and dark way. I wondered the same things
you did, but trust it was done well--and disturbingly as the film scene
called for. Would you have preferred the scene be deleted or an artist's
music you don't like have been used?
Please email me directly with your reply off this list. Thanks,
Jonathan Haynes, House Of Mercy, St. Paul
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