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The Bizarre Reason You Rarely Hear Martin Luther King Quotes in Movies (www.vice.com)

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In 2009, Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks company paid the estate for film rights to King’s words, along with his life rights, which allow a person or company to make content based on an individual’s story. DreamWorks has yet to produce or direct Spielberg’s planned King biopic, but the rights have caused complications for numerous filmmakers. (Neither Spielberg’s literary agent nor King’s estate returned Broadly’s request for comment.)

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[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 19 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

If you made a true story about MLK Jr, you would include things that don't make him look good like the affairs and prostitutes but more importantly it would show more about the COINTELPRO that the govt was operating to take down the civil rights movement and socialist movements in America.

The letters written to him by the FBI encouraging him to kill himself with info about his moral failings.

The similarities between how the establishment attacked MLK Jr privately and how they attack anybody with barely socialist policies overtly nowadays is not at all shocking.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 15 hours ago

Also, MLK Jr was way more of an activist than most people realize. The "I have a dream" speech was one of the tamest ones that conservatives love to prop up on MLK Jr Day.

Some More News had a really good video about what he actually stood for.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

What’s far more likely is a studio like Angel putting out a heavily sanitized propaganda version ala Prager U.