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The movie is promoted as "don't play the game, change the game."
What does "change the game" mean?
People who were good baseball players drive the success of the major leagues.
A lot of good baseball players in major league baseball happen to be black people.
Jackie Robinson was a good baseball player.
80% of baseball fans today most likely watched their first baseball game after Doby Gray and Jackie Robinson first played and during a time when black baseball players were a league fixture.
What is the point of the movie, 42?
Jackie Robinson and Dobie Gray accomplished what they did.
Why make a big deal about it?
Very few people alive find black baseball players unusual.
How come we can't "judge people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character?"
It would have made a decent enough TV movie but its ancient history today. Still, if we have to keep being reminded that there was racism a few generations back that is proof just how far we've come.
You can still find a few ancient relics that have made racism their careers and a few that are desperatley trying to make it seem even remotely prevalent . Basically because they have nothing else they can base a career on.
I dont think they shouldn't do this movie. Its an important time in history. For Jackie to break the barriers in sports and put up with what he had to deal with while keeping calm and standing strong, is a very important story.
I think you mean Larry Doby. Dobie Gray was a singer.
It's a Hollywood movie about a famous person with an interesting story. Hollywood is in the business of making movies that people will want to see. It's a business. I think your suggestion that they not make this movie smacks of a leftist anti-business agenda. Just because you find it an assault on your whiteness doesn't mean that such business endeavors should be squelched.
The only thing I don't understand is why it took so long to make it. I would have made the movie in the 1960s or 70s. I believe that's when I read a book about his life and the life of Satchel Paige.
Whatever happened to Dobie Gray, anyways? It's like he just drifted away or something.
He just died within the last couple of years. Tom Rush does a great rendition of "Drift Away" and he tells a good story about meeting the songwriter at the airport.
I dont think they shouldn't do this movie. Its an important time in history. For Jackie to break the barriers in sports and put up with what he had to deal with while keeping calm and standing strong, is a very important story.
Jackie didn't build that.
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