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  • redbluesredblues ✭✭
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    lol :wink:
  • matty42matty42 tyrone, pa✭✭✭
    Posts: 67
    How would one go about seeing this film? I googled "The Fraternity of Djangophiles", and the results just brought up this forum thread.
  • klaatuklaatu Nova ScotiaProdigy Rodrigo Shopis D'Artagnan, 1950s Jacques Castelluccia
    Posts: 1,665
    matty42 wrote:
    How would one go about seeing this film? I googled "The Fraternity of Djangophiles", and the results just brought up this forum thread.
    The film was actually called "Djangomania." Fraternity etc. was just the title of the article.
    Benny

    "It's a great feeling to be dealing with material which is better than yourself, that you know you can never live up to."
    -- Orson Welles
  • BonesBones Moderator
    Posts: 3,323
    I think I'd like to see this film (although it sounds like it might only piss me off).

    Is it available anywhere online?

    thanks
  • HereticHeretic In the Pond✭✭✭
    edited February 2011 Posts: 230
    I've never read anything that would indicate that Django was is any way political, or nationalistic.
    My overwhelming thoughts lie in the nature of the absolute horror of Nazi agendas. The lack of humanity marks the Nazi. The grotesqueness of their mad power that lead to the scientific imprisonment of anyone that did not fit their preposterous notions, and led directly to the de-humanization of their immoral acts of wanton murder, and torture of not just Jews, but political and religious foes, and the Gypsies.
    Django was none of this.
  • klaatuklaatu Nova ScotiaProdigy Rodrigo Shopis D'Artagnan, 1950s Jacques Castelluccia
    Posts: 1,665
    Heretic wrote:
    I've never read anything that would indicate that Django was is any way political, or nationalistic.
    wonton murder
    My thoughts exactly. Politics probably did not mean a thing to Django. It's true that he played in clubs that Nazi officers frequented, but millions of other Frenchmen and -women went on with their lives during the occupation, too. That didn't make them Nazis. Not everybody is cut out to be a resistance fighter.
    Heretic wrote:
    ... wonton murder ...
    They killed Chinese dumplings, too?
    (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
    Benny

    "It's a great feeling to be dealing with material which is better than yourself, that you know you can never live up to."
    -- Orson Welles
  • HereticHeretic In the Pond✭✭✭
    Posts: 230
    Mis-spellings always get me into hot water. Good catch, thanks.
  • noodlenotnoodlenot ✭✭✭
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    kurt waldheim was nazi and got to be secretary-general of the UN. i´d try to wise-guy, i mean, make a movie about that too.
  • Lango-DjangoLango-Django Niagara-On-The-Lake, ONModerator
    Posts: 1,875
    I live in Ontario, and I saw it on TVO back when it first came out... was it really over five years ago?

    My memories of it are now a bit patchy, but I totally fail to recall any angle in it about Django supposedly having been a Nazi collaborator.

    I do recall some amusing footage of the mayor of the little town in Belgium nearest to Django's birthplace (IIRC, it's no longer called Liverchies, but I can't remember the present day name) trying to justify cashing in on the Django legend.

    But what really stands out in my memory is this... there is a short clip of a bunch of Tokyo GJ players jamming, and among the musicians there's a teenage girl violinist who is obviously just beginning to imitate Grapelli, and, wow! did she ever have a wonderful sound!

    Now, she didn't have any of Grapelli's advanced improvising skills, mind you, but she had that certain indefinable light-as-a-souffle sound...

    I hope she's still playing GJ style, and perhaps one day somebody among our ranks will meet her and find out how she's coming along....

    We don't get too many teenage girls interested in GJ and it was a real pleasure to see and hear her.

    Will
    Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON
    Paul Cezanne: "I could paint for a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing."

    Edgar Degas: "Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.... To draw, you must close your eyes and sing."

    Georges Braque: "In art there is only one thing that counts: the bit that can’t be explained."
  • redbluesredblues ✭✭
    Posts: 456
    Check out Daisy Castro, fairly precocious young player that she is

    http://gypsymothmusique.com/
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