Mississippi Burning Movie Analysis

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Throughout the course of time, adaptations of real events have been altered for entertainment purposes. This grand scheme has essentially influenced every single aspect of the industry to invoke emotion and drama to the viewer. Movies such as “The Fault in Our Stars”, “______________” and “____________”; These popular movies weren’t completely factual in fact most of the movie that are based on a true event are mainly fiction. In those few cases it’s understandable that the industry wants to engage a greater target audience to gain more monetary capital. Recently, the movie “Mississippi Burning” directed by Alan Parker faced similar scrutiny because the movie wasn’t based off complete true event. In many cases such as this one, changing historical …show more content…

The movie accurately portrayed the horrific acts done to African-Americans in 1964-65. The main issue is that the lynchings and burning did not occur suddenly right after each other. It could be due to the limited time, the movie had to get the point across within 2 hours. The burning of 31 churches occurred in a 6 month span of time throughout the month of June 1964 to January 1965. Lastly, the greatest difference between the two was that the movie never went into detail what happened to the case. Fail to the mention that the case went to the supreme court. Also, the convictions took multiple trials that lasted up to 4 years to sentence the men involved in the killing. The “Mississippi Burning” was a fine example of movies that were altered for a wider audience but failed to mention some vital information. The movie left a sense of emptiness in the ending because the audience lacks information of the case. In some ways the movie made the trial seem less of importance than it was. If done in a tasteful manner, movies should be fine with altering facts if it's done in a slight manner that does not change the theme of the movie or

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