Uncle Tom's Cabin [VHS] Category: Video
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Customer comments on this selection. A MUST SEE IN GRADE 8 U.S. HISTORY A very well done movie that shows the student why abolitionist fought so hard to eliminate slavery across this nation and why pro-slavery southerners wanted to maintain their aristocratic lifesyle dispite it becoming less and less profitable but a way of life with slaves at the bottom.A truly peculiar institution that highlights the depth of mans inhumanity to man. Simon LeGREE had my students on the edge and hisses and boos were common place, as was the case when the original toured the world arena .GREAT JOB! Uncle Tom's Cabin - The Movie This is a 90's film adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's important novel by the same title. This story, and the message of the story, is of utmost significance. It is a tale in 1850's America of slave trading -- buying and selling people like they were property, and of cruel treatment that would be unacceptable for even zoo animals. Obviously, plantation life for the slaves could vary from reasonably comfortable to incredbly inhumane, depending mainly on the owner. The film story demonstrates this well. There are glimpses of light: the strong Christian belief system and ethics among the slave population, and the good Samaritan acts and sacrifices of those who would aid them. But the general environment and theme is dark and the horror of the situation is self-evident. I could only give this film 3 stars due the production values. Kudos to Avery Brooks (Tom), Edward Woodward (Simon Legree), and Bruce Dern (Augustine). The rest of the acting is mediocre or downright bad. The child actors are horrible. Editing is noticably choppy. Musical score is TV-like. Sound is poor. Props and costumes are pretty good (except for the steel decking and fiberglass benches on the Delta Queen). Camera work, fair to poor. In spite of "locations" ranging from Kentucky to the Canadian border, this film looks strongly as if it were almost completely shot in a single small back lot location. Entertaining and a couple of tear-jerker moments. Historically and sociologically there is no information here that an adult American would not already be aware of, although, like the Holocaust, there are some ugly moments in history that we would do well to not completely forget. Epic story, but not an epic movie. Samuel L. Jackson at his best This is a great movie. I don't know how true it is to the book, because I've never read the entire book. As an 8th grade history teacher, however, this movie is perfect when trying to show the students the reality of slavery in the antebellum South. Tom is placed into a world of slavery. Tom is benevolent and good nature, and with slavery as the back drop to his life, the viewer is given a glimpse into the depravity of slavery. I think the movies does a great job of showing the extremes of slavery: a cruel slaver master, a angelic little girl, and humane slave owner (sounds like an oxymoron), a good slave, a bad slave...and so on. The students really get into the movie, and they feel the saddness of slavery, which helps them understand the fight for the territorial expansion of slavery, prior to the Civil War. Great Movie! Great movie Although it has been many years since I read the book, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I don't know how well the movie follows the book; its been too long since I read the book, and I don't remember all the details, but the story makes a strong statement about slavery. How moving is the tremendous suffering of black families as they are ripped apart by masters and owners who refused to see them as human beings with souls; as people whom God loves; and whose misery did not go unseen by the all-seeing eye of God. No nation which professes any kind of religious belief could possibly turn a blind eye to any segment of the population which is enslaved. This movie tugs at your heartstrings as you watch men and women and children separated without regard to their family connections. Great movie! The silent movie was much better The book by H.B.S. was not intended to be about heroism or love but about the inhumanity of slavery. The author breathed life into the characters primarily to evoke sympathy for them from the reader or hatred for them in the case of Simon Legree. I saw this black and white silent movie for the first time at the age of 13. Up until that time I had only occasional contact with black people and did not understand why they were so radical about the topic of slavery. My only understanding of slavery was the Shirley Temple version and I thought black people were being overly sensitive about it. Seeing Uncle Tom's Cabin was like an awakening that changed my understand of the whole relationship between black people and slavery. The silent movie was much better at bringing across the true purpose of the novel without the hollywood slant of modern versions.
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