RE: [Harp-L] Cadillac Records...Again

["Anthony Smith" <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am sure there was plenty of comment on the movie when it came out but I
wasn't a part of it...I personally thought the movie was great!  

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Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 6:57 AM
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Subject: [Harp-L] Cadillac Records...Again


I'm a high school teacher; I teach 12th grade English...end of the year,
last day of classes before exams. I had picked up a copy of Cadiallc Records
but hadn't seen it...brought it to school. In one of my classes, I asked the
kids if they'd like to watch it. They were semi-disinterested in the way
that only 17-18 years olds can be :-)

 

Anyway, I put the movie in. Two things:

1] My opinion? Not a bad movie at all, though it makes LW into a sort of
cartoon character in the usual Hollywood fashion...but even with its
inaccuracies, it IS about Chess records; it does show LW recording
Juke...and those are good things.

2] As the movies began, the kids were sort of talking among themselves, not
particularly interested, but when the movie got to the scenes that pictured
Muddy recording in Chess studios, making that glorious music, their
attention was revited to the movie. They then watched with some interest.

Conclusion: Cadillac Records is not a great movie, or even a very good
movie, but it may well be a very useful movie. I give it a thumbs up.

WVa Bob

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