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re: Rank your favorite Ken Burns docs
Posted on 3/19/18 at 2:29 pm to Harry Caray
Posted on 3/19/18 at 2:29 pm to Harry Caray
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Baseball is an embarrassment for how it wrongly portrayed Ty Cobb
This is the overriding theme with most Ken Burns' docs.
He hates the South and he hss never been afraid to let it be known. He pushes the white guilt thing irl every time he gets a chance and hell, even when he was recently on Finebaum promoting one of his latest works he took the opportunity to take a shot at the South and blammed Trump on us ... which I took as a compliment.
Burns is an OT, not OG mind you, but OT as in Original Transitionor or Original Transvestite. Incredibly talented but unbelievably and incredibly well funded mostly by tax payers.
Given that fact I have always said he could have done better. After Civil War all of his docs have had political overtones strongly in favor of his openly socialist and communist beliefs.
#frickKenBurns
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Posted on 3/19/18 at 2:33 pm to scrooster
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After Civil War all of his docs have had political overtones strongly in favor of his openly socialist and communist beliefs.
#frickKenBurns
Uh, no they haven't.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 2:34 pm to scrooster
quote:You're not wrong. And it is pretty annoying.
After Civil War all of his docs have had political overtones strongly in favor of his openly socialist and communist beliefs.
But I just take the good with the bad. Sure he gets on his high horse a lot. In the baseball documentary he spends more time on Jackie Robinson than he does on almost all the other players put together.
But the man knows how to make a historical documentary. I'll take some shitty politically motivated stuff 10% of the time and enjoy the other 90% of unbiased history discussion.
Posted on 3/19/18 at 4:51 pm to scrooster
quote:Let's calm down there a bit, buddy. I'm just upset that the research for Baseball wasn't quite as thorough as it should've been.
This is the overriding theme with most Ken Burns' docs.
He hates the South and he hss never been afraid to let it be known. He pushes the white guilt thing irl every time he gets a chance and hell, even when he was recently on Finebaum promoting one of his latest works he took the opportunity to take a shot at the South and blammed Trump on us ... which I took as a compliment.
Burns is an OT, not OG mind you, but OT as in Original Transitionor or Original Transvestite. Incredibly talented but unbelievably and incredibly well funded mostly by tax payers.
Given that fact I have always said he could have done better. After Civil War all of his docs have had political overtones strongly in favor of his openly socialist and communist beliefs.
#frickKenBurns
Posted on 3/19/18 at 5:26 pm to scrooster
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He hates the South and he hss never been afraid to let it be known.
Well if he does,
he picked the wrong guy in Shelby Foote to be his source material for the Civil War doc. It's no secret Foote is from Mississippi and says his shaping as a youth was during Jim Crow...and it's no secret that critics have claimed his 3 Volume Narrative on the Civil War is heavily Pro-Southern.
IDK how much his upbringing influenced his writing...I don't really care...
Because it's the best writing on the Civil War ever.
Which is why Ken Burns used it and him extensively. There are a million other books and historians out there who have covered the Civil War till kingdom come...
But Burns chose Shelby Foote - a supposed Southern sympathizer.
So if your premise is correct, Burns is an idiot. Picking a Pro-Southern Lost Cause Advocate for his series.
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