His actions are grandiose and he sets the stage by doing things on a truly global scale. He infiltration of Chalky White's empire was equal parts gutter gangster and Freudian to a fault. While the other characters simply are dealing with their issues with bullets and double crosses. Dr. Narcisse has a plan that will in his mind liberate African Americans from a fate he himself can only truly perceive and that only he can eliminate. Not unlike any other supervillan he has people every where will to do his bidding at a moments notice his plans come together making Hannibal Lecter seem humane. To see a real life supervillan at play while Boardwalk tosses around its other story lines is too live. -thegqlife
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Dr. Narcisse = Dr. Doom - What it took to be a black gangster back in the day
Boardwalk Empire has always had bits of historical data peppered throughout it's story lines. None better than the current character of Dr. Valentine Narcisse portrayed by actor Jeffrey Wright. The character's ambition as a criminal pales in comparison to the shows other characters like Nucky Thompson and Meyer Lansky. You see the good doctor has much more in common with Dr. Doom the foil of Marvel Comic's the Fantastic Four.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Some Type of Way...12 Year as a Slave Review
Nothing like a moment of clarity! When things make more sense than even your clearest moments. While watching "12 year as Slave", I had one of those moments. I blog because I love the written word, so this is the equivalent of dropping free mixtapes to the masses. I have so many opportunities to use the written word in so many different ways. What if that was illegal for me to write or get a job that I was qualified for and had to work for free. I would be sick with it, I would feel some type of way. Hey what a minute that has happened! 12 year as a Slave starring, Chiwetel Ejiofor, is a film about how Solomon Northup a free man and violinist gets abducted by kidnappers in Washington D.C, and set down south via the Mississippi River on a steamboat where he gets indoctrinated to slave life then to forced to live in Louisiana to be a slave for 12 years until, Brad Pitts sends a letter to his friend in D.C. who brings his free man papers and clears the whole thing up.
That's the movie, however it all has to be seen to believe, even though I am well versed in African American history something struck a nerve when one of Solomon's master's said this, "Your an exceptional nigger but I am afraid no good will come of it". That got the tears flowing and the pain that I've ignored as a black man for most of my life as smart as I am I often wonder how the world would treat me if I was not black. While viewing the President of the United States I don't really wonder how they would view him. I know how he would be praised if he was not black. Like I said the movies made me feel some type of way. The movie should be seen by all creeds and races because you will be shocked to see how all of the ideology of slave owners and slaves still is present in society. -thegqlife
That's the movie, however it all has to be seen to believe, even though I am well versed in African American history something struck a nerve when one of Solomon's master's said this, "Your an exceptional nigger but I am afraid no good will come of it". That got the tears flowing and the pain that I've ignored as a black man for most of my life as smart as I am I often wonder how the world would treat me if I was not black. While viewing the President of the United States I don't really wonder how they would view him. I know how he would be praised if he was not black. Like I said the movies made me feel some type of way. The movie should be seen by all creeds and races because you will be shocked to see how all of the ideology of slave owners and slaves still is present in society. -thegqlife
Thursday, October 17, 2013
28 years later......
It's the year 2041, America has bounced back in a major way due to a concept called "unison". It was first tried in Detroit, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois. It fixed these city's blocks with innovation all the rage in a matter of years things settled even more so when Derrick Rose's 7 NBA Championship rings all but stopped the gun violence in Chicago. (Come on home Lebron). Then in 2021 Detroit opened the world's first spaceport. Things couldn't have looked up for the Earth.
This is 28 years later, and there is one person in America who may not get to see what they started. -thegqlife
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