Blue Story film

Watched the director of the film saying that cinema chains were racist for pulling the film and that the 100 strong crowd of mainly black youths who started a fight in the cinema foyer had nothing to do with the film screening...now call me cynical, but I don't recall such problems when the original Frozen film was first screened.

 

Too much white in Frozen?

 

Good publicity or am I just being a grumpy old cynic

 

It wasn’t just one cinema that experienced trouble.

 

I don't know - kids of today rioting at films - we never had that trouble when Rock Around the Clock came out did we - oh hang there were Teddy Boys

 

They pulled the film on safety grounds, which is fair enough. To make that leap to say the move has a consciously or unconsciously racial motive is rubbish really. Didn’t a similar thing happen when Clockwork 0range was first screened? No reason it shouldn’t be shown so long as security measures are in place to protect everyone.

 

A film about urban gangs and no one expected gang members to turn up? Shocking

 

To quote the director " where's the evidence, show me the evidence "
If I'd have been one of the tech boys behind the scenes, I'd have had the evidence on screen before he'd finished the sentence!

 

I'll have to take your word for that Grandad !

 

Wasn't the film called Blackboard Jungle?

 

https://news.sky.com/story/blue-sto...-film-after-25-incidents-in-24-hours-11869779

 

One of the actors saying "They're taking our voice."
He wants to try working where it kicks off like that.

 

Another film entirely - don't remember there being riots at its showings though

 

Oi - I'm not your grandad - you're around the same age as me

 

I was 2 when the film came out....so Dad perhaps!!

 

Blackboard Jungle released in 1955 featured Haley's Rock Around The Clock in the title sequence and elsewhere in the film. Here is an extract from Wiki:

The film marked a watershed in the United Kingdom and was originally refused a cinema certificate before being passed with heavy cuts. When shown at a South London Cinema in Elephant and Castle in 1956 the teenage Teddy Boy audience began to riot, tearing up seats and dancing in the aisles. After that, riots took place around the country wherever the film was shown. In 2007, the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture published an article that analyzed the film's connection to crime theories and juvenile delinquency.

The film Rock Around The Clock was more of a musical, released in 1956 and was not so controversial.

 

Good knowledge! Every day's a school day.

 

I know nothing!

It's all on t'internet! But I suppose being older helps one remember things of one's youth long before others were born!

 

If I go to see it, should I take my secateurs? (I haven't got a machete)

 

If every young upstart with countless convictions of violence were to watch all of the World At War series ...or made to . And ghastly images of the first world war . it might just register the futility in violence ...providing the youngster has reasonable degree of intelligence .