Chapter 1: What film is being discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What historical events does 'Selma, Lord, Selma' depict?
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Chapter 3: How does the film portray the character of Cheyenne Webb?
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We've got a special one today for Black History Month. We are diving right onto YouTube again, so apologies for that, but you'll understand why in a second. Landing, again, in the wonderful world of Disney, which is why, of course, we had to watch it on YouTube. They refused to put these things on Disney+. We think it has something to do with the music or the licensing.
We're trying to get an actual answer, though, because there's so many gems from the wonderful world of Disney that we have not been able to dive into yet. Or when we do, it's bad quality or we get half of it or it's ripped from somebody's VHS.
This one was a great quality.
Mine was okay. It wasn't great. It was okay. And again, I just love being able to see every aspect of the filmmaking and the... Especially when it's something as important as a period piece. You know, I want to see the clothes and the cars and all that. So, you know, it was a wonderful film, but I, you know, wished I could have watched it more clearly.
And of course, that is because it's a wonderful world of Disney, which, as we've talked about a thousand times, is only on the YouTubes, which is not good.
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Chapter 4: What role does Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. play in the film?
But anyway, this is the 1999 biographical drama of Revolution, Selma, Lord Selma. It premiered on ABC on January 17th, 1999, just one day before the federal Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, which of course was designed to happen by Disney.
The film is based on true events that took place in 1965, detailing a tragic event in Selma, Alabama, a very dark day for the civil rights movement, where hundreds of marchers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams were met by a wall of state troopers and a posse of white locals who quickly knocked them to the ground and hit them with nightsticks and tear gas, some beaten unconscious while running away, all televised to an international audience.
17 marchers were hospitalized and 50 treated for lesser injuries. Lewis suffered a skull fracture and one 14 year old girl needed seven stitches above her right eye and 28 on the back of her head. The massacre became known as Bloody Sunday and pushed President Lyndon Johnson to send a voting rights bill to Congress.
Now, there have been obviously a lot of movies and books and TV shows about this very moment in American history, most famously the 2014 award winning movie Selma. But Sabrina, did you know much about Bloody Sunday before we watched this film?
Yes. I mean, what we learned, you know, in school and, of course, watching the movie Selma. So I definitely did know about it. It just doesn't like it doesn't matter how many times I've talked about it or had stories that I've read. Just seeing it again. It's just it's so heavy. And it's just I mean, I I obviously knew what I was I was going to be watching. Sure.
And yet as it was going, even just the first couple of things that you're just going, wow, like what a different world. For especially the youth to live in, you know, how scary, scary it was.
Sure.
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Chapter 5: What impact did Bloody Sunday have on the civil rights movement?
Yeah, this was it was an important film to watch. I have very heavy film to watch. Yeah. And it's one of those movies where I knew I was going to just sit there angry.
Yeah.
So, you know, you get you you you. Yeah. Well, we'll get into it. But it is it's it's infuriating to watch what what happened, especially, you know, when it's, quote unquote, Disneyfied. So it's seen through the eyes of a child.
Right.
It really puts kind of a different spin on on what's happening in the world where, you know, one morning you're jump roping and a week later you're running from tear gas. So it truly it truly all this through the eyes of a child is such an interesting way to watch the events unfolding in our country. And, you know, people forget our country is an idea and it's evolving all the time.
And sometimes it gets it. It's a horrible jump forward and sometimes it's a horrible jump backwards. And you're seeing kind of this this progression.
But oh, man, it was just so inspirational.
Oh, man.
As far as, you know.
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Chapter 6: How does the film address the theme of nonviolence?
All I kept thinking was, man, how amazing it'd be to be in a room with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His aura, his energy, the way that people talk about him, the way everything that he did. The first couple scenes were quickly into a church, a small little area with him. I kept getting chills. I couldn't imagine literally being in that church with him.
such an incredible, inspirational man who just moved mountains for this country.
Yeah, and it's also, there's something so amazing to me about somebody like a Dr. King or Gandhi or somebody like that who essentially says, every amount of violence we're met with, we're going to answer with peace and love.
Yes.
And it's just... You get that feeling of you're infuriated in watching, going like, swing back, hit back, grab something. And it's like that's the absolute opposite of everything they're teaching. It's like everything you do to us, we're going to meet you with love and peace.
And the level of control.
I mean, someone cuts me off.
on the freeway and I am like, my marble's in my car. You know what I mean? It's like the level of control and just, I mean, and showing how it worked, like showing that that was the right way to go was just, it's just wild.
So, yes, this is going to be, again, a different film that we're watching this week. And we've done a couple of these now that have kind of, again, looked at something going on in the world. Usually, you know, color friendship comes to mind where, you know, it was about apartheid.
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Chapter 7: What are the reactions of the characters to the events unfolding in Selma?
And so looking at these incredible things that are happening, these horrible things that are happening throughout the world through the eyes of a child, again, is a much different take. And Disney does it well. So Selma, Lord Selma is based on a 1980 book of the same name written by Cheyenne Webb and Rachel West and, of course, Frank Sikora, published by the University of Alabama.
Disney Pictures optioned the memoir, hoping MLK Day could coincide with its release. The book was a memoir from Webb and West, two children who witnessed the day as children and are, of course, the main characters of the story. Compared to some of our past recaps, this film obviously holds a bit more emotional heft and violence than we usually see.
But that was always the best part of the Disney Channel produced films. You know, they just did it. The genres and emotions ran the gamut in this one. Viewers got to learn something. It wasn't Fuzzbucket, to say the least. critics, so we're not so sold on it. They were mixed. However, it was nominated for the Humanities Prize, which you might remember Color of Friendship did win.
It was also nominated for an NAACP Image Award. During researching the movie, it does seem like a lot of schools show this movie to students during Black History Month, which is great because that means they probably have VHS copies out there because, as we said, as is the case with most wonderful Disney films, watching it can be a bit of a scavenger hunt.
But we did find the full version on the YouTube. So that's how we watched it. Just search for Selma, Lord Selma, and you'll see a full movie option or pick, I guess, whatever upload speaks to you. Some might even say, let the movie choose you.
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Chapter 8: What are the final thoughts on the significance of 'Selma, Lord, Selma'?
Don't choose the movie. However, choose the movie. It makes it better. Again, we talked about this, talked about the actual day of Bloody Sunday, but did you know anything about the film before we recap?
I didn't. I didn't.
No, I didn't.
But then once it popped up and I saw the the main young actor, I was just she is just so extraordinary. I was like setting myself up for a wonderful watch as far as it goes.
By the way, we already got one of our producers saying, I remember watching this movie in school growing up. So yeah, this was an important one. And as they were so proud to say in the movie, let's get your marching shoes ready. Here is the synopsis. 11-year-old Cheyenne is touched by a speech from Martin Luther King Jr. and becomes active in the civil rights movement of 1965.
But her resolution is tested when she joins others in the infamous Alabama march from Selma to Montgomery. Early thoughts. What did you think of Selma, Lord Selma?
Oh, man. It was, you know, heavy. Absolutely. But I thought it was done really well. I thought that this was a movie. I mean, not necessarily. Obviously, there would be kind of like an age that you wouldn't want to have your any child. Like, I wouldn't have my kids watch it just yet, obviously.
Probably not yet. Yeah.
No. But at the same time, I think in a couple of years. you know, is such a learning movie and it's done well. It's not, it, it, you, you feel the heaviness, but it's not, you know, graphic. Like it's not like to where it's like, you know, that, that you get, you get the, the sense, like the seriousness of, of what happened.
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