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Jemmons

(711 posts) Mon Jul 11, 2016, 02:56 AM Jul 2016

"I have only anger in my heart...."

Mississippi Burning is an all-names-changed dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan's murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. ... The title Mississippi Burning is certainly appropriate: nearly half the film is taken up with scenes of smoke and flame.

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"I have only anger in my heart...." (Original Post) Jemmons Jul 2016 OP

I love this movie, and it is still relevant. Defoe and Hackman were amazing and Dourif is such Feeling the Bern Jul 2016 #1

I agree wholeheartedly with you about Brad Dourif. He was amazing as Grima Wormtongue Glorfindel Jul 2016 #2

Feeling the Bern

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1. I love this movie, and it is still relevant. Defoe and Hackman were amazing and Dourif is such

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Mon Jul 11, 2016, 06:00 AM

Jul 2016

an underrated villain actor. Similar to Michael Ironside and Michael Wincott.

Glorfindel

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2. I agree wholeheartedly with you about Brad Dourif. He was amazing as Grima Wormtongue

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Mon Jul 11, 2016, 12:47 PM

Jul 2016

in "The Two Towers" and as the Mentat Piter Devries in "Dune." In a non-villain role, he was perfect as the doctor in the HBO series "Deadwood." I haven't seen "Mississippi Burning," but I'm going to watch it tonight.

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